# The British Museum: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-30, The British Museum has 801,000 subscribers, 91,210,907 total views, and 621 videos. It ranks #93,784 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [The British Museum](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for The British Museum is “Dunstable Swan”, a Short published Oct 27, 2026.
- These are The British Museum’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Apr 30, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026 (13 long-form videos and 35 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 22,495. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Reading the Pharaoh's private mail with Irving Finkel \| The Amarna Letters \| Curator's Corner Ep100” (1,002,638 views, Sep 25, 2026). Least viewed: “How did Odysseus and his men escape the Cyclops?” (5,957 views, Aug 28, 2026).
- Median length: 10:58 for 13 long-form videos; 0:51 for 35 Shorts.
- In this sample, The British Museum’s consecutive uploads were a median of 3 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 13 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 30, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Dunstable Swan](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/xLsbptKnyrY/) | 2026-10-27 | Short | 15,270 | 1:04 | 1.16x |
| [Clocks at the British Museum](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/5RY1290L1Ao/) | 2026-10-24 | Short | 6,400 | 0:31 | - |
| [What's the story of the Bayeux Tapestry?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/WHT5gqFxq8Y/) | 2026-10-23 | Short | 9,964 | 0:22 | - |
| [What's missing from the Bayeux Tapestry?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/1LUxfgWTv4M/) | 2026-10-22 | Long-form | 30,683 | 2:14 | - |
| [Can you identify this English town?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/NH4y0V3w-sE/) | 2026-10-17 | Short | 75,239 | 0:37 | 4.2x |
| [Where did the halfpenny come from?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/Un02DA4sw5g/) | 2026-10-14 | Short | 22,446 | 0:40 | 1.24x |
| [Harold's Roman neck](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/GKQ3MZTHU18/) | 2026-10-10 | Short | 43,951 | 1:08 | 3.41x |
| [How Harold was depicted before the Bayeux Tapestry (and what it tells us) \| Curator's Corner Ep101](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/qHLr0QeJcSc/) | 2026-10-08 | Long-form | 259,482 | 14:23 | 1.97x |
| [A 3,300 year-old demand for gold](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/ISIqWa5ujVc/) | 2026-10-07 | Short | 22,544 | 0:52 | 1.71x |
| [Behind the letters of ancient kings](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/gM3mI5l7tvQ/) | 2026-10-03 | Short | 28,632 | 0:40 | 2.1x |
| [Korean Sutra Box](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/wBzpxijZ1Lo/) | 2026-10-01 | Short | 10,811 | 1:36 | - |
| [Reading the Pharaoh's private mail with Irving Finkel \| The Amarna Letters \| Curator's Corner Ep100](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/3MZq_ZQDhJA/) | 2026-09-25 | Long-form | 1,002,638 | 41:42 | 5.51x |
| [Sounds of the Hirayama Studio](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/jbAak22CsPQ/) | 2026-09-24 | Short | 10,844 | 1:31 | - |
| [Why does this vase have eyes?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/FqjXuDgpvSs/) | 2026-09-19 | Short | 16,352 | 2:01 | - |
| [Curator's Corner \| A remarkable phenomenon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/3rfTmsGu3cU/) | 2026-09-18 | Long-form | 71,645 | 7:11 | - |
| [No swords allowed for tea 🍵](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/XSTU4mlZAlQ/) | 2026-09-17 | Short | 8,109 | 1:02 | - |
| [How did the Bayeux Tapestry survive nearly 1000 years?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/G54HN48dplM/) | 2026-09-12 | Short | 12,923 | 0:26 | - |
| [Bayeux Tapestry Scene Recreation](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/0n3Jwvn33tQ/) | 2026-09-10 | Short | 197,607 | 0:28 | 4.85x |
| [Claudia Winkleman VS The Battle of Hastings \| The Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/6m3Z6nsusqw/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 223,188 | 1:59 | 1.23x |
| [How did Odysseus and his men escape the Cyclops?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/2vU8mx6IaCk/) | 2026-08-28 | Short | 5,957 | 2:13 | - |
| [Why gun technology took off in Japan](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/Mxd39maupSs/) | 2026-08-21 | Short | 42,096 | 0:30 | 1.52x |
| [How is the Bayeux Tapestry still here after 1000 years?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/NPYXkP1Fb1I/) | 2026-08-20 | Long-form | 280,298 | 3:00 | 2.15x |
| [Roman metalworking in action](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/ghVThSDQi94/) | 2026-08-13 | Short | 78,193 | 0:42 | 4.73x |
| [How The Odyssey was experienced in the ancient world](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/4q3LnqQCrcI/) | 2026-08-07 | Long-form | 140,900 | 24:04 | 1.08x |
| [The Roman solution to cheating](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/gNbDsp6zUGQ/) | 2026-08-07 | Short | 40,020 | 0:40 | 2.88x |
| [This Roman armour remembers being a crocodile](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/CpnK1-edNk4/) | 2026-07-31 | Short | 52,201 | 1:28 | 3.52x |
| [Rebuilding a Roman emperor’s letter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/2plDP-uXx1c/) | 2026-07-24 | Short | 11,752 | 1:41 | - |
| [How peace changed Japanese swords](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/iUOSLfOOXis/) | 2026-07-17 | Short | 14,959 | 0:44 | 1.04x |
| [This was a fireplace 400,000 years ago.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/YJ_10JEXZ_U/) | 2026-07-08 | Short | 41,436 | 0:52 | 2.97x |
| [What's the story in the Bayeux Tapestry?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/VCeydlr3Nww/) | 2026-07-07 | Long-form | 119,623 | 2:08 | 1.27x |
| [This ancient boat has travelled for 4000 years.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/g6px2lIWz1o/) | 2026-06-30 | Long-form | 30,084 | 10:58 | - |
| [This tiny rock has changed human history](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/fAcJRpF0bXc/) | 2026-06-29 | Short | 13,258 | 1:17 | - |
| [What Sutton Hoo revealed about early medieval Britain](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/lRbKvpjkJkI/) | 2026-06-26 | Short | 14,658 | 0:47 | - |
| [What object is our replica expert sick of copying?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/T4ZflQ9czOw/) | 2026-06-19 | Short | 18,136 | 0:25 | 1.11x |
| [The man who (re)makes history \| Replica expert workshop tour at the British Museum](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/DyWh7jvH7Q0/) | 2026-06-12 | Long-form | 245,417 | 15:01 | 2.09x |
| [Japanese conservation doesn’t erase the past](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/e9EPYD6HHyo/) | 2026-06-12 | Short | 6,798 | 1:20 | - |
| [Katana and wakizashi: swords shaped by war](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/uJft6XsLYxI/) | 2026-06-05 | Short | 9,296 | 0:51 | - |
| [Not everyone could join the Roman army](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/arI17h7Ey3Q/) | 2026-06-02 | Short | 81,463 | 1:11 | 4.25x |
| [Power, not sport](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/EffAtD2nVCU/) | 2026-05-29 | Short | 18,107 | 0:29 | - |
| [This alarm clock used gunpowder](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/a4KpYyZTvWY/) | 2026-05-22 | Short | 12,615 | 1:21 | - |
| [Discovering the earliest evidence of human-made fire](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/_-ZuS0m1Oso/) | 2026-05-21 | Long-form | 299,338 | 16:14 | 3.93x |
| [Not just one crocodile...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/MegqD8GfLoo/) | 2026-05-16 | Short | 13,344 | 0:58 | - |
| [Early Japanese swords weren’t used like you think](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/YcfuR-Mx1VM/) | 2026-05-15 | Short | 20,546 | 0:41 | - |
| [You’ve never seen armour like this…](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/P8S-vbkPf8w/) | 2026-05-14 | Short | 29,353 | 0:40 | - |
| [Making an Iron Age shield out of bark](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/fOVe83F-Lnk/) | 2026-05-13 | Short | 14,340 | 0:45 | - |
| [Packing animal mummies for CT scanning](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/iV7O1I9eNkw/) | 2026-05-12 | Short | 20,182 | 0:56 | - |
| [Channel Announcement: Curator's Corner 100th episode!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/BmR7bQ4qPeI/) | 2026-05-09 | Long-form | 9,186 | 2:09 | - |
| [We CT scanned ancient Egyptian animal mummies - here's what we found inside](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@britishmuseum/videos/N-Hup5S6K0I/) | 2026-04-30 | Long-form | 318,000 | 15:31 | 3.76x |

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