Sadly it has been announced that History of Weapons and War video platform is set to close down at this end of the month. Thank you to Ian for setting up and running this platform and for very kindly inviting me to join the project. Most importantly if you supported my work here – thank you very much, I really do appreciate it.

It was great to be a part of a community of content creators which put together videos on the more nuanced, academic or technical side of guns and small arms.

Over the last year or so HoWW really subsidised my work in the sense that it provided a solid, reliable income – which YouTube sadly never has. It justified the hours of research, editing and production which go into most of my videos.

I love making videos and content on the topics I think are important and interesting and I hope I’ll be able to continue doing that but I can only say that since HoWW began YT has only gotten worse in terms of supporting my (and probably others) work in this area.

Annoyingly, Playeur, another video platform I joined about 5 years ago also closed down this month – this again shrinks the number of places that TAB videos can be found. We seem to be in a contracting space where more serious firearms content no longer has many viable homes.

So I’ll soldier on as long as I can justify taking the average of a solid couple of days out of my working week to make the content that I (and hopefully you guys) enjoy.

If you’d like to support the work I do on TAB (beyond very helpfully sharing my work with friends – thank you!) then the best thing you can do is head over to our Patreon page and check that out here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/thearmourersbench

You get all videos early and some thank you perks too! For everyone watching this I've set up a discount that's valid for the next week or so. 25% off joining the TAB Patreon for all HOWW users. Simply head to the page and use the code: TABHOWW25

Thank you again for all your support on here.
– Matt