# History With Hilbert: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-29, History With Hilbert has 500,000 subscribers, 78,379,241 total views, and 604 videos. It ranks #153,089 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [History With Hilbert](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/). 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 History With Hilbert is “Why does NAMIBIA speak Afrikaans?”, a long-form video published Oct 18, 2026.
- These are History With Hilbert’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jul 12, 2025 and Oct 18, 2026 (46 long-form videos and 2 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 35,378. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Why does this South American Country Speak AFRIKAANS?” (916,658 views, Sep 26, 2026). Least viewed: “I've written a book. Well, we've written a book.” (7,246 views, Jul 22, 2025).
- Median length: 17:32 for 46 long-form videos.
- In this sample, History With Hilbert’s consecutive uploads were a median of 7 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 77 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Why does NAMIBIA speak Afrikaans?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/kPRPVKoO5ZA/) | 2026-10-18 | Long-form | 86,751 | 21:46 | - |
| [Why did Flanders Declare INDEPENDENCE from Belgium in 1917?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/X9BYOm23bnE/) | 2026-10-11 | Long-form | 92,355 | 18:28 | 2.01x |
| [Why does this African country speak GERMAN?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/nupwF5egN08/) | 2026-10-03 | Long-form | 105,643 | 23:11 | 1.13x |
| [Why does this South American Country Speak AFRIKAANS?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/f4fs74f_J4Q/) | 2026-09-26 | Long-form | 916,658 | 24:45 | 11.29x |
| [Why Doesn't Northern Ireland Become INDEPENDENT?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/5lYV9e2NMaA/) | 2026-09-19 | Long-form | 70,954 | 24:59 | 1x |
| [Duolingo's Language Flags make NO SENSE](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/tnaTPX4acsE/) | 2026-09-12 | Long-form | 84,290 | 12:15 | 1.29x |
| [Why did the Dutch Communist Revolution of 1918 Fail?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/b9sWMB8q5L8/) | 2026-09-05 | Long-form | 133,753 | 13:04 | 1.81x |
| [What Happened to Scotland's Colony in Panama? (1697-1698)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/MdkbDyAlvJY/) | 2026-07-16 | Long-form | 19,124 | 16:30 | - |
| [How did Dutch and English rebels inspire the American Revolution?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/ksywNVnPDIc/) | 2026-07-04 | Long-form | 11,236 | 15:11 | - |
| [How Long Did New York City Speak Dutch?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/GR07JQy37_k/) | 2026-06-26 | Long-form | 180,822 | 17:18 | 2.31x |
| [Why BOTH the British and the Germans planned to invade the Netherlands in 1916](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/ZSmyzvbBRBw/) | 2026-05-16 | Long-form | 34,381 | 22:10 | - |
| [Belgian Plans to INVADE the Netherlands After World War 1](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/8UHu9t7h_xc/) | 2026-05-10 | Long-form | 149,791 | 13:23 | 2.03x |
| [Why Don't We Know Which Language the Huns Spoke?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/2EiYrNsGvyU/) | 2026-05-03 | Long-form | 77,488 | 18:00 | 1.27x |
| [Why Does Part of France Speak Dutch? (Flemish)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/w4P6g-qPnWs/) | 2026-04-25 | Long-form | 70,461 | 14:09 | 1.19x |
| [Did the Mongols Influence English?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/VlTh37pn37g/) | 2026-04-18 | Long-form | 44,092 | 11:11 | - |
| [Why Doesn't Portugal Speak Spanish?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/S6Gm7JqNNk8/) | 2026-04-11 | Long-form | 91,882 | 13:57 | 2.26x |
| [Why Isn't Frisian a Dialect of Dutch?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/F3dohTo9QmU/) | 2026-04-03 | Long-form | 52,229 | 10:25 | 1.54x |
| [Why is there a "Wales" in Switzerland?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/YaKO2Ogviis/) | 2026-03-27 | Long-form | 79,360 | 7:55 | 2.53x |
| [Why Doesn't the Netherlands Speak German?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/Q-uDca_x0MM/) | 2026-03-20 | Long-form | 244,458 | 13:10 | 9.12x |
| [Did Vikings Create the Geordie Accent?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/0xpJfFx_UFs/) | 2026-03-15 | Long-form | 53,807 | 16:05 | 2.01x |
| [What was the Pagan Germanic Calendar?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/tesar_ObSSo/) | 2026-03-08 | Long-form | 11,322 | 18:55 | - |
| [What was the Provisional IRA (Irish Republican Army)? \| 5 Minute History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/Q2SmxEJB2Jc/) | 2026-02-28 | Long-form | 14,515 | 5:53 | - |
| [What Was The Pillar Box War? \| Scotland 1952](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/oARc0xpHjOQ/) | 2026-02-21 | Long-form | 23,870 | 12:23 | - |
| [Why Did the Dutch Try to Capture Greenland?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/fpZVxgxv68k/) | 2026-02-14 | Long-form | 16,951 | 19:29 | - |
| [How Many Kingdoms were there in Early Medieval Britain?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/cZ0okhyJiPM/) | 2026-02-11 | Long-form | 11,765 | 44:55 | - |
| [What Happened to the Greenlandic Old Norse Language?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/6E-cLx6BVIo/) | 2026-02-07 | Long-form | 16,207 | 20:40 | - |
| [Did the Dutch Buy New York For $24?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/cn32C2bNn_E/) | 2026-01-31 | Long-form | 8,626 | 18:52 | - |
| [What was the Pagan Celtic Calendar Like?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/tF9UlaYtOpw/) | 2025-11-15 | Long-form | 8,196 | 24:26 | - |
| [Was King Æthelred Really Unready?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/JaU26jFntqs/) | 2025-11-08 | Long-form | 29,046 | 21:39 | 1.14x |
| [East Germany, West Germany, Slavic Germany? \| The Proposed Sorb State of Lusatia (1945-1949)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/u9e824oorDc/) | 2025-11-01 | Long-form | 60,081 | 18:26 | - |
| [Vikings and Islam - Why Are Muslim Artefacts Found in Norse Burials?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/F1e_OJXCH6Q/) | 2025-10-25 | Long-form | 8,757 | 9:33 | - |
| [The History of Scottish Gaelic in New Zealand (1840-1985) Gàidhlig in Aotearoa \|](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/D7HqiWNPYAs/) | 2025-10-18 | Long-form | 17,372 | 41:39 | - |
| [Why is the Frisian Language GROWING in the Netherlands?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/s_1vAsKsmKk/) | 2025-10-08 | Long-form | 35,257 | 18:16 | - |
| [How the English Language Lost Its Best Letters \| The Death of þ & ð](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/7lpKRn-lJ4s/) | 2025-10-04 | Long-form | 30,472 | 20:46 | - |
| [Who were the Picts?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/q1z-ndkz4YQ/) | 2025-10-01 | Long-form | 38,851 | 30:02 | 1.01x |
| [What are the Lost Letters of the English Alphabet? (&, æ, ſ)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/XhgIUGn7uHQ/) | 2025-09-27 | Long-form | 33,635 | 17:55 | - |
| [Russian Drones Attack Poland \| NATO Triggers Article 4](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/RfXQK85BLCg/) | 2025-09-10 | Long-form | 24,546 | 12:18 | - |
| [The Forgotten Dutch Expeditions to New Zealand \| 1642-1705?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/Z7EkeUnjl3M/) | 2025-09-08 | Long-form | 32,350 | 17:46 | - |
| [What is the English Flag? \| History of St George's Cross](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/xnSKf6A24gQ/) | 2025-09-02 | Long-form | 49,568 | 20:46 | - |
| [Will North Korean and South Korean Become Different Languages?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/BzQNUYx1L3E/) | 2025-08-30 | Long-form | 35,498 | 12:09 | - |
| [What Peaky Blinders Get Wrong about the IRA?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/q9quTRKmI0Q/) | 2025-08-29 | Short | 20,749 | 1:36 | - |
| [Thai-Cambodia Conflict explained. #thailand #cambodia #news](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/9S5EQV2PJ5Y/) | 2025-08-24 | Short | 10,593 | 0:39 | - |
| [Could Syria's Druze Declare Independence?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/5FMFgJsMGno/) | 2025-08-21 | Long-form | 35,102 | 8:22 | - |
| [Why Belarus is Killing the Belarusian Language](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/NnLwrr5XgK0/) | 2025-08-13 | Long-form | 107,371 | 21:37 | 2.41x |
| [Will Cornwall be the Next Nation of the United Kingdom?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/rha1Yv36OQw/) | 2025-08-04 | Long-form | 80,184 | 14:45 | 2.63x |
| [Why are Thailand and Cambodia Fighting a War Over a Temple?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/Itie0xsTEUA/) | 2025-07-25 | Long-form | 191,455 | 10:23 | 6.76x |
| [I've written a book. Well, we've written a book.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/F_eQ-HdephM/) | 2025-07-22 | Long-form | 7,246 | 3:45 | - |
| [What Was the Dutch Plan to Colonise South Australia?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historywithhilbert/videos/Khr7Dg7_X2w/) | 2025-07-12 | Long-form | 31,030 | 10:12 | 1.57x |

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