Tag: Youtube

History of Weapons and War – Shutting Down

Sadly the History of Weapons and War video platform, set up by Ian of Forgotten Weapons (and featuring content creators including myself British Muzzleloaders, Bloke on the Range, Chieftain, and 9Hole Reviews amongst many more great channels) is set to close down at this end of the month. If you used the platform and supported my work there – thank you very much.

Special thanks to Ian for setting up and running this platform and for very kindly inviting me to join the project. It was great to be a part of a community of content creators which put together videos on the more nuanced, academic or technical side of guns and small arms.

Over the last year or so HoWW really subsidised my work in the sense that it provided a solid, reliable income – which YouTube sadly never has. It justified the hours of research, editing and production which go into most of my videos.

TAB on HoWW

I love making videos and content on the topics I think are important and interesting and I hope I’ll be able to continue doing that but I can only say that since HoWW began YT has only gotten worse in terms of supporting my (and probably others) work in this area.

Annoyingly, Playeur, another video platform I joined about 5 years ago also closed down this month – this again shrinks the number of places that TAB videos can be found. We seem to be in a contracting space where more serious firearms content no longer has many viable homes.

So I’ll soldier on as long as I can justify taking the average of a solid couple of days out of my working week to make the content that I (and hopefully you guys) enjoy.

If you’d like to support the work I do on TAB (beyond very helpfully sharing my work with friends – thank you!) then the best thing you can do is head over to our Patreon page and check that out. You get all videos early and some thank you perks too! For everyone watching/reading this I’ve set up a discount that’s valid for the next week or so. 25% off joining the TAB Patreon for all HOWW users. Simply head to the page and use the code: TABHOWW25

Thanks as always for your continued support.
– Matt

Where To Find Us

Hi guys, this is just a quick update to let you know some of the other outlets you can find us on. In the past year TAB has grown a lot and we’ve expanded to a number of social media platforms. We know that people different platforms and may not know about us on others, so we thought we’d put together a quick post to let you know where else you can find us online. It also gives us a little redundancy if there are ever issues with any one platform.

Of course, as you all known, we’re over on YouTube – you can find the channel here.

We also have a thriving Facebook page where we post regularly, you can find the TAB page here.

WW1 Hotchkiss Light Machine Gun in Action

We have an account over on imgur, initially just for occasional photo hosting but the response to posts over there has been great so we post regularly there – especially gifs and that sort of thing.

Most recently we have also set up a discord server for the growing TAB community to chat to each other in, we discuss all sorts there as well as upcoming content.

We also now have an Armourer’s Bench Instagram account, which is brand new, you can check that out here.

Of course as we announced back in November, we now have a Patreon page as well. TAB is an entirely viewer supported, non-monetised channel, so Patreon support is very much appreciated.
Over there we post sneak peaks from upcoming videos and share behind the scenes stuff from research trips and video production. You can find that here.

Thanks guys! – Matt & Vic