My name is Tom Rowsell, I'm an historian, writer and film maker from England. In my professional career I have worked as a journalist and an international Science Communications specialist.
Survive the Jive is a YouTube channel with historical films about ancient pagan religions. I'm a qualified historian and documentary film maker. I focus mainly on Indo-European cultures and most specifically on Germanic/Norse paganism, because I am a pagan, but I also make videos on other subjects too.
THE ORIGIN OF SURVIVE THE JIVE
I started Survive the Jive™ blog in 2007 after I graduated with a BA in Media and Communications. The blog initially focused on anti-surveillance and anti-consumerism. The first tag-line was "A guide to surviving the surveillance state for the i-Phoney generation". The name referred to all the technophilic fads and misinformation in the media at the time, which I termed "jive." I was working as a journalist in London from 2008, mainly writing about art and music for several magazines while I used this blog and the associated Survive the Jive™ YouTube channel to address more political matters such as the Bolivarian revolution of Venezuela.
Since 2009, the blog posts and videos of Survive the Jive™ changed focus instead to look more at mythology, spirituality and folklore but I still espouse the same anti-consumerist ideals that I set out with. I got a Master’s degree in Medieval History at UCL in 2012, which greatly expanded my ideas on such subjects, particularly in regards to the values and religions of my Anglo-Saxon and Norse ancestors.
I continue to take an interest in polytheistic religions. The most recent direction of the StJ project since 2016 has been population genetics, with focus on the culture, identity and religion of the Indo-Europeans. My videos are based on thorough interdisciplinary research, drawing from archaeology, linguistics, historical sources, comparative mythology and population genetics - particularly archaeogenetics.
Most of my films are still about history; whether Anglo-Saxons, Neolithic bell-beaker folk, Yamnaya people or Indo-European invaders of India. I will endeavour to improve and expand the StJ project in the future with livestreams, public events and speaking tours.
The best way to learn about who I am and what I stand for is by watching my videos.
CONTACT SURVIVE THE JIVE
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10 comments:
Your history blogs are world class
Hey i am an indian with south chinese tai ancestry. Your videos are extremely informative.thanks
Hey there! I am form USA and I just found out where my family is from (Northumberland UK) and I really like to watch the history of my ancestors you bring out the facts and I appreciate your efforts!
Ryan
The way you explain our past peoples opens ones eye to see our genetitc compound of who we are today, where we came from, who we came from the battle to keep our history preserved !!! Our ancestors need their people not to forget who they were
Which bit of Northumerland do your folk come from?
Hello Ryan. I am Northumbrian. You are probably looking at Anglo Saxon culture. The Vikings kind of left the North East of England alone. Look up Border Reivers and the early English Christian church.
Hello, I have been a fan following off and on through out the years. Anyway I know you are an expert on Anglo history and there was an anti anglo podcast creating a pro spanish narrative that just dropped a day or so ago. Billy Cornpops is making the arguments and Zoltanous is hosting the podcast in question on bitchute. "Fascio Podcast 5 - The Anglo Question" is the title on bitchute.
Hello there Tom,
I have a praise-ridden rant followed by a question.
RANT: i love your work! It is an excellent intersection of comprehensive research, compelling presentation, & anthropology relevant to so many people! Well done, sir! It means a lot to me. My love of history, languages, & genealogy grew into a deep longing to connect with cultures beyond the modern obsession with vapid entertainers, & shameless food chains. I have become passionate about understanding my ancient roots, & finding ways to reincarnate my ancestral culture(s) in relevant, personalized ways today. This pursuit led me to your youtube channel, after finding out years ago that my heritage is HEAVILY British (most branches of my tree tracing back to modern regions of England), with a smaller portion of Southern German. This along with being of i1a patrilineage (such as yourself) has given me a deep fascination with the Germanic world (especially Anglo Saxon).
QUESTION: Being that you too are i1a, I am wondering what you have learned about our deep ancestry. I speak relative to the notion of the Scandinavian i1 lineages being considered pre-Indo European (Western Hunter Gatherers, right?). What have you learned or what do you surmise about the cosmology, beliefs, or religion of the Nordic pre-IE i1 peoples?
Thank you for enduring my verbosity.
And thank you for helping me survive the jive!
Cheers,
-Stephen Hayden
Hello there Tom,
I have a praise-ridden rant followed by a question.
RANT: i love your work! It is an excellent intersection of comprehensive research, compelling presentation, & anthropology relevant to so many people! Well done, sir! It means a lot to me. My love of history, languages, & genealogy grew into a deep longing to connect with cultures beyond the modern obsession with vapid entertainers, & shameless food chains. I have become passionate about understanding my ancient roots, & finding ways to reincarnate my ancestral culture(s) in relevant, personalized ways today. This pursuit led me to your youtube channel, after finding out years ago that my heritage is HEAVILY British (most branches of my tree tracing back to modern regions of England), with a smaller portion of Southern German. This along with being of i1a patrilineage (such as yourself) has given me a deep fascination with the Germanic world (especially Anglo Saxon).
QUESTION: Being that you too are i1a, I am wondering what you have learned about our deep ancestry. I speak relative to the notion of the Scandinavian i1 lineages being considered pre-Indo European (Western Hunter Gatherers, right?). What have you learned or what do you surmise about the cosmology, beliefs, or religion of the Nordic pre-IE i1 peoples?
Thank you for enduring my verbosity.
And thank you for helping me survive the jive!
Cheers,
-Stephen Hayden
Swami Anand Thom Roswell:
Love.
I heard of your name and work by Archarya Teema on a discourse he was giving a few days ago. Wanted to say I've reviewed much of your work already and really find your dedication to the topic, passion for research, and somberness for the content to be of high marks. No question about it! I have subscribed.
Thank you for all you do and continue to do teacher Thom.
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