Bloodsworn: A Burmese Historian

The recent earthquake in Myanmar and its neighbours have been one of the worst ones the region has suffered. Please keep us in your prayers and donate to help the victims. In particular, the Sagaing region has long suffered since the Pandemic and especially so with the war. While I am happy to report my immidiate family and friends in Yangon and Thailand are safe, the internet and electricity backouts from the earthquake damage and the state of war means communication is poor and things. Mutual Aid Myanmar and various other groups are organising aid. The damage include not only in major residental areas but 19th century temples, pagodas, churches and mosques. Our thoughts and prayers to all affected communties.

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9 months ago | [YT] | 40

Bloodsworn: A Burmese Historian

Hi everyone, my apologies for not been active. My silence is because I am now doing fieldwork in England! I will be busy collecting sources in London and various other places. I hope to get something out soon but it will depend on my timetable! Thank you all for your support over the years. I will try to create more quality content! Take care of yourselves!

Bloodsworn

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1 year ago | [YT] | 61

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Hi everyone, so even after cutting down and summarising a number of stuff, the 1824 Anglo-Burmese War remains a BIG topic. So I just wanted to see what format would you prefer. Will be uploading the next video either next week or the following week.

1 year ago | [YT] | 26

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Hi, everyone.

I wasn't sure whether to post this here on my channel but ultimately I thought it would be good to at least spread some awarness of Myanmar history content made out there. I am one of the authors to contribute to this book (I won't say what I wrote for privacy reasons) and there is an exhibition in London so if anyone is there, do take a look at it. From a Myanmar perspective, the content is a bit strange (some of my own writings were considered a bit too "harsh" for a British audience xD). It is a "Public History" project and one by the British Museum too but it is a landmark in the sense that they tried to get as much Myanmar academics involved and at the very least attempted a balanced view. I am not going to advocate buying it because it's not the cheapest but if you somehow get your hands it on, do take a look. It's a good insight to seeing how non-Myanmar people look at Myanmar. History is not just about uncovering forgotten details but also relooking at the same events from different perspectives and different contexts. Never forget to keep expanding your horizons.

2 years ago | [YT] | 52

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Hello, everyone and happy new year to you all! Wishing you all the best for 2024. I am still alive and been busy outside. On the side, I have not been idle channel related. One of the things I have been busy with is learning to use After Effect and other editing softwares. So just to give a teaser and do let me know which do you prefer?

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Burmese War elephants in 1859 according to a Spanish military magazine. I haven't any other sources that support this especially since according to the Konbaung Chronicles and Royal Orders of Burma, there's actually been a great decrease in elephant units in the Konbaung armies, who seem to be raising more musket armed infantry and horse cavalry since the 1790s. What is interesting is that the description matches Marco Polo and Chinese accounts of Northern Burmese (Bama and Shan mostly) war elephants' armour so the artists might have drawn it based on those descriptions. On the other hand, it could be from one of the Myinkin Thabins, the annual military tournments of the time. Whatever else, it's still pretty cool to see an illustration of it! If anyone else know or seen it before, please do comment!

2 years ago | [YT] | 55

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Hello and Mingalaba, everyone.

First of all, apologies for my long absence. It has been a busy and difficult time for me outside the channel. The war has been taking a great toll and sometimes I wake up each day thinking why am I where I am? Why did I survive when braver and better men and women didn't? What can I do for those who are left? Am I presenting the message properly? Is it too boring? It's been difficult.



Which is helped by the second bit. Ten thousand subscribers. I have a hard time believing it. I honestly did not think the channel would grow this much. This channel was initially envisioned by a group of us uploading various content ranging from culture, mythology, art and of course history from me but before we could finalise anything a number of things happened. First was Covid. Many of our families were badly affected. Second of course the War. As such, we all had to tend to our families or other commitments rather than continue forward with our plans.



The first video came out as much as a frustration to do something based on Myanmar as much as a planned one. I often found myself staring at my script in class and one day just recorded the audio in a classroom with a $5 earpiece on a Samsung phone.



It feels so surreal to see what this channel has grown into. And that would not be the case without you. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you.



So for future content, I will continue to upload content on Myanmar history including non-militiary content but as some of you are more interested in the more academic discussion of it, I will be uploading heavier content on my membership channel. Content here will include an in-depth analysis of the conflicts I discussed and historical debates that are ongoing. These videos will be longer, cited in greater detail and will discuss points more geared to academics.



Because of my personal commitments outside of the channel, I will focus on more longer and in-depth videos done over a longer period rather than shorter ones. If you have any topics that you want me to cover, do comment below as I will be looking through a lot of Southeast Asian (mostly Myanmar) and European stuff (most British) research outside.



Once again, thank you for your support! Cheers!

2 years ago | [YT] | 46

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The Mongol Invasion of Burma summarised. #Mongols #Myanmar #Bagan #YuanDynasty #historymeme

2 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 34

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The way Burmese names are spelled have long been heavily politicised. Partly because of colonialism, partly because due to political reasons and partly out of trying to spell out the names that are mostly better known among the locals and easy for foreign visitors to make sense of the bloody map! So going to have a poll for various Burmese names spelled in English that you would prefer I pronounce in future videos. You can comment other suggestions too.

So for the first one is the old Royal capital in Central Myanmar

2 years ago | [YT] | 13

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"Members of the Myin cavalry were answerable only to their officers and could not be touched by other social groups in the Burmese kingdom."

The Myinsi:

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