Tom Rowsell

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Tom Rowsell is a British historian, YouTuber, film-maker, and former journalist. Rowsell operates Survive the Jive, a YouTube channel focused on pre-Christian religions, particularly Germanic paganism, but which also explores wider historical subjects such as Archaeogenetics and Indo-European studies.

Prior to becoming a YouTuber, Rowsell wrote as a journalist for publications including iD magazine and Dazed magazine. In 2014, Rowsell directed From Ruins to Runes, an independent documentary about Anglo-Saxon paganism. The Folklore Society describes the documentary as focused on "Anglo-Saxon haunted barrows and pagan shrines to the dead; seeks evidence for roots of a" pagan past by consultations with neo-pagans and Viking re-enactors, and finds healing gods and ancient cultures in old chronicles" Far-left newspaper Morning Star commented in their review, "The documentary features a sword display by Fighters Against Racism, an anti-racist martial arts group, but as Rowsell emphasises historical heritage belongs to neither the right or left. It’s more important than that."

In 2020 the Danish broadsheet newspaper Weekendavisen described Rowsell as a "British journalist and historian" in an article detailing his role in the dispute between historian Sturla Ellingvåg and the scientist Eske Willerslev regarding a paper they co-authored on the subject of genetics of the Viking age.

References

• The Folklore Society. 2014. "Non-Print Media Away 2014". Online. Last accessed November 15, 2020.
• Morning Star
• Weekendavisen