I hope you enjoy this first part in a new series on the Habsburg Empire, starting with Maria Theresa's early reign. Thank you for watching, and to Patrons for voting on the topic.

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a new old britannia video? i couldnt be more delighted

I AM OBSESSED WITH THE HABSBURGS! I’m thrilled to see they will be getting a series on their early modern history.

Excellent! I said I wanted to see more 18th century content from you but I didn't expect to see it so soon! I always described the War of the Austrian Succession as the "Yes, but we've changed our minds now" War given Frederick had gone along with the Pragmatic Sanction prior to the Emperor's death.

As austrian I really love that you are doing a episode about the Habsurg monarchy, if you find any sources, wich are only available in german I could translate it if you want.

Possibly the clearest and best summary of this part of history I have seen. Thank you for this. I look forward to seeing more of your videos.

Been watching history videos on UKposts for years now, but no other channel comes close to the quality of your content.

The Holy Roman Empire, and then the Habsburg Empire following on from it, has always been my stubborn odd historical interest, so a focused look at the area is much appreciated! Thank you!

Now isn’t this spicy. Taking a Detour from our usual program to talk about one of the underrated eras. Love your presentation style and informative commentary

This video came in the same vein as the first day of snow each winter: delightfully unexpected with a tang of something new to get used to. Huzzah for more excellent geopolitics by him truly!

Nice seeing better and better quality videos. Thanks as always

The quality of these videos really is amazing, thank you for brightening my day with some excellent history content!

I liked the clip before even watching it knowing for sure it will be of a very high quality! Thank you for your dedication, OldBritannia! I hope you find the right balance in your life! Can't wait for tonight to watch the video! 🙏

Really one the best channels this platform can offer... thank you!!

I saw your video, I instantly clicked on because i'm interested by the habsburg empire. Your videos are such hight qualities one, you can be proud of it. It would be very captivating if you could make videos about diplomatic system that emerged after some conflits like the Westphalian system, the vienna system or the Bismarckian system, the aims of each power and do they were able to fulfill partially or totally their ambitions. Thanks for reading 😊.

Such a great video and the channel as a whole. Advanced historical knowledge, extended lenght of the video, great quality of the production.The lack of 18/19th century historical contant on youtube is quite disappointing, so I glad you are filling this gap! Keep up the great work!

I love the Hapsburg empire, so fascinating to learn about and just a past major player that isn’t about anyone other than in the form of an Austrian rump state.

Fantastic video again! I love this part of history and it is a joy watching you cover this period of great power politics! Just brilliant 🤩

Unique deep dives like this make this channel one of the most rewarding history ones on youtube. Hope to see a similar video on Catherine the Great’s foreign policy/ministers at some point.

I was literally just thinking a day before you uploaded this how great it would be if you did a series on the hapsburgs. Truly one of if not my favorite European dynasties. Thank you for doing this hard work and keeping your channel alive.

I love your channel. You cover the topics well and with balance; straight, no chaser.

Thank you!!! Excellent as always!

It is so nice to see Rosalia Carriera’s artwork being put into the context of her epoch! Thank you for a great video!

Excellent narration, thank you for your high quality videos

One of the best channels going. Never compromise your vision!

I love hearing you discuss Austria during this time period (or any for that matter) and i was just thinking to myself yesterday that you hadnt posted in a little while. Happy to see your work sir

Outstanding as always, OB!

Love your work❤

Keep it up! Your videos are incredible!

Excellent video, thanks for making it. I really appreciate your Habsburg videos a lot, because there's a dearth of good content relating to them in English, and so people generally tend to either be uninformed or misinformed on the topic, relying on many stereotypes to fill the gaps.

Heck yeah! Absolutely love seeing new videos from you. Big fan of the jokes in this vid.

Another excellent video, thank you.

I was hoping you’d do a video on Maria Theresa and Joseph I for a while! Great video loved it

This is great! Looking forward to more Habsburg content. It'll also be great if you can do more early modern history!

The quality of content never ceases to amaze me

You've got great videos. You've read very long and deeply on history, and have mature reflections. A very fresh change of pace compared to a lot of the parvenues making videos on here. Feels like everyone on UKposts is a self-proclaimed expert on something they didn't even know existed six months ago.

Love the videos, highlight of my week

Frankly, i think this is the best work of its kind on youtube. A pleasure to watch as always!

Every day that you post is a day that gets me excited to watch once more 😊

Was not expecting a Habsburg video. A surprise to be sure but a welcome one

Awesome vids!!! Thanks!

I love these episodes talking about the Habsburgs, great upload

Loving your channel, thanks for the citing and depth of analysis. If I could ask one thing: would it be possible to make playlists for the different topics you speak about? There is one on the Other Great Game. But when searching for a video, having one for videos on the Napoleonic Wars, for example, would help. Not all videos easily fit in one, but for the ones that are chronologicallly linked, it would help me greatly with searchability. Thanks!

Love this! The Habsburgs are so overlooked in mainstream histories (especially post German unification) but imo they’re utterly fascinating. OB uploads make my day as always!

Excited for this new series

Absolutely phenomenal! I’m so glad to be learning more about this, in particularly the great Queen!

I have enjoyed your previous content, and this is a fascinating subject to dive into. I have just subscribed to your channel. Keep up the excellent work.

Good stuff as usual.

Finaly a new video

Love this channel. Glad you keep making content. I know it's niche and doesn't get the flashy views, but its great content nontheless.

Impressive. Thank you.

Amazing video

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Great video

This was incredible, please can you make a part 2?

As usual, a very watchable history lesson.

Very interesting video.

Another masterpiece 💯

Wow wow wow. I am so glad you did more Austria content I've really enjoyed it this far! Will you ever do some more specific, internal British conflict videos? Say the Civil War, Roses, or maybe even something earlier...

Really interesting video make me rethink the period

i love these videos

Amazing 🤩!!

I’m not sure of this was intentional or not, but I love the little jokes you sprinkled in! They’re funny, yet subtle enough to not distract from the video.

love your videos but i think there needs to be a timeline of some sort to keep track of everything!

Just started up Empire Total War and this drops?!?!?!?! Nice 😎

You rival Historia Civilis in my excitement when a new video releases

Incredible video, never seen anyone cover this in such depth

Very well done. Maria Theresa is rather fondly remembered here in Czechia for her reforms and as our one and only Queen, even though she lost most of our Silesia (but then again, it was mostly German) and Czechia's autonomy was diminished. A new statue of hers was unveiled in Prague in 2020. Also, Kaunitz, while born in Vienna, is from the old Czech noble family.

Another incredible video! Love your content!

Another excellent installment for the channel. I am appreciative of the portraits in this episode more than usual to keep the many and even minor parties memorable.

Easily one of the great history UKposts channels

I’m visiting Austria in 3 weeks. Thank you for the video!

Excelent! ❤

Great content as always. One question @OldBritannia: Which is, in your opinion, the time limit (historical period) of your approach? In other words, when does the geopolitical vision / strategy differ in a fundamental way, that is, when did it became 'modern'? 1500s? Westphalia 1648? Keep on the great work

Do you write these descriptions of historical figures yourself or get them from your sources. As an aspiring writer myself you have a literary gift.

One of my absolute favorite countries in history. I'm going to love this series

As always beautiful

‘It would be better apply to Satan than the Hungarians for help.’ -Maria Theresa: ‘The safety of my son and heir lies with Hungary.’ - Hungary: ‘WE SHALL DIE FOR EMPRESS MARIA THERESA!’

Peter III dropping in and playing the ol' Uno reverse card feels like one of the biggest goddamn plot holes ever

Gave this video it’s thousandth like

never clicked so fast

props for using sciophobia from oversimplified, very nice music ^^

Please continue this series on Austria. On the many great european states in the enlightenment era you should focus their entire history on using your style it would he Austria. I cannot wait for you to deal with the Metternich era of Austria since I keep hearing so many things about his post napoleonic system.

>London was under no obligation to pull Vienna's chestnuts out of the fire Now I know you do your research. I don't think I've ever heard that phrase outside of a diplomatic history of 18th/19th century Europe The Habsburg state is perhaps my favourite protagonist of this time period. I'm thrilled to see that you're doing not just a video, but a series on it. I look forwards to the next one! In terms of sources, I'm sure you already have your research done and dusted, but I do have some more to recommend. Judson's The Habsburg Empire for a look at the internal development of Austria in this period, and Kennedy's the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers for an invaluable big-picture view and some useful economic numbers for the period after 1820

I enjoyed the Humor. Another banger

Can you do a video about the Anglo-Spanish rivalry

Hell yeah Old Britannia!!

you should do a video of Austrias position during and under the revolutionary and napoleonic wars

The coronation of Peter III will forever go down in history as one of the biggest WTF moments of all time. Right up there with Franz Ferdinand's assassination. Sometimes, you really can't make such historical events up. The probability of Prussia being saved was so low and yet it happened. It wasn't because of weather, competance or military skill, it was sheer luck 😂

The problem with the Habsburgs is that they didn't take good care of their military. Prince Eugene of Savoy's words would prove prophetic.

What's the music you used?

I knew Marie Theresa was an unlikely candidate for greatness. But this really paints how gifted she really was. All by being sensible and aware of her own limitations.

Music buffs may know that it was Van Swieten's son Gottfried who was the center of Viennese musical life in the later 18th century, not just personally encouraging Mozart and Haydn, but reviving the music of JS Bach as well. He shows up in the movie Amadeus, the fellow with the curly brown wig, in the court of Maria Theresa's son Joseph II.

How do you make the maps for these videos?

Years ago I organised a "Pragmatic Sanction" LARP/ARG online. The Maria Theresa player was such a good diplomat that she became the first female empress of HRE. The Pussian player failed so badly that he barely held his lands despite having the best armies. He alienated almost everyone.

I beg you! Do Joseph + Leopold one. Please

Great video but small corection 4:31 Bavaria and Saxony both became kingdoms only during Napoleonic wars.

0:30 I’m glad this was mentioned here because most UKpostsrs like to harp on about continuous Habsburg rule from the days of Charles V as if both Charles VII and Francis I aren’t glaring exceptions to Habsburg (or Habsburg-Lorraine, whatever have you) occupancy of the imperial throne. But my biggest point of historical confusion is whyever did Leopold I expect Charles VI to honor the Mutual Pact of Succession if he indeed outlived his elder brother Joseph. Lands being partitioned betwixt the descendants of female inheritors was common when a dynasty died out, but that only usually meant claims went to the daughter or daughters of the last ruler, not nieces or cousins. This is combined with the fact that Archduchess Maria Anna (Maria Theresa’s only surviving sibling) was married to Francis’s younger brother, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, meaning no dispute would come from her. And with Joseph long dead, there would be no one to advocate for Archduchesses Maria Josepha and Maria Amalia. In both hindsight and the circumstances being what they were, it simply would’ve made more sense to enshrine preference for the daughters of whichever brother lived longer, which happened to be Charles