About the channel
The time travel is made up. The facts aren’t.
Vlogging History with Miles is a first-person history series for curious kids and grown-ups. Here’s how every episode is researched and made.
How we research
Five rules for every episode
- 01
Start with the people who were there
We begin with eyewitness accounts and official records from the time: inquiry transcripts, letters, logbooks and survivors’ testimony. For Titanic, that meant the 1912 British and US inquiries.
- 02
Check it, then check it again
Every script goes through many drafts. Key claims are checked against primary sources, then cross-checked against more than one independent reference before anything is made. If you spot something we got wrong, we fix it and say so.
- 03
Cut the myths
Some famous stories turn out to be disputed, or simply untrue. If the evidence isn’t solid, we leave it out, or we tell you that historians still disagree.
- 04
Real people first
Miles meets real, documented people wherever we can find them. Their conversations with Miles are dramatised: written for the episode, based on what the records tell us, and never contradicting the evidence.
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Hindsight stays with Miles
Miles knows how the story ends. The people he meets don’t, and we never show them acting as if they know what’s coming.
A note on AI
Real history. AI-made visuals.
Almost none of Titanic’s voyage was ever photographed. A handful of precious pictures survive, like the ones Father Francis Browne took on board before he left the ship at Queenstown. To show you everything else, the pictures and video in each episode are reconstructions made with AI tools, built from period photographs, deck plans and eyewitness descriptions.
Miles himself is a fictional character. The people he meets are real, and we portray them as accurately as the records allow. Each episode guide has an Honesty box saying what’s reconstructed or uncertain.
We think that’s a useful lesson in its own right: how do we know what we know about the past, and where do we have to make our best guess?
AI reconstructionHelp us get it right
Spotted a mistake?
If you spot a mistake or know a source we should read, we’d love to hear from you. Every correction makes the next trip better.
