Historia Civilis is a history Youtuber with over one million subscribers. He not only uses historical sources, but lists in them in the video description, and sometimes cites them in his video. But I was disapponted in his video on the history of work and time management, published on 30 September 2023. This video of mine explains why I think Historica Civilis is wrong about work.
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