Amateurish logistics chatter. Very grateful to medieval embroiderers for making it so easy to remove the background with the magic select tool. Unironically very grateful to John Palmer, Anna Powell-Smith and countless others for their work digitizing and displaying the Domesday book.
00:00 - Introduction
02:17 - Horse and cart problem
08:33 - Tyranny of wagons and rockets
09:43 - Real logistics
12:39 - Foraging
13:55 - Domesday Book
16:52 - Army supply examples
[1] World War II color footage - American troops move through northwest France toward Paris, Library of Congress collection, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020600756/
[2] A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, https://acoup.blog/
[3] Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry,
https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-i-households/
(Accessed 08/02/26)
[4] Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry,
https://acoup.blog/2024/08/24/collections-teaching-paradox-imperator-part-iiia-de-re-publica/
(Accessed 08/02/26)
[5] Collections: Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part I: The Problem, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry,
https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-they-do-it-part-i-the-problem/ (Accessed 07/01/26)
[6] Anna Powell-Smith, Open Domesday Project, https://opendomesday.org/ (Accessed 07/01/26)
[7] Domesday Book analysis by John J. Palmer and the Hull Domesday Project, https://www.domesdaybook.net/ (Accessed 25/12/25)
[8] World War II color footage - American troops move through northeast France, Luxembourg, and Belgium to Germany, Library of Congress collection, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020600754/
[9] Mercedes-Benz L3000 at the Tanks, Trucks and Firepower Show 2023 (user: Airwolfhound)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanks,_Trucks_and_Firepower_Show_2023_20230826_100655_(53157890108).jpg
[10] WW2 in Europe and North Africa, Map 33, West Point Digital History Center,
https://dhc.westpoint.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/WWIIEurope33.jpg
[11] Mercedes L3000, Truck Encyclopedia,
https://truck-encyclopedia.com/ww2/germany/Mercedes-L3000.php (Accessed 26/02/26)
[12] Mercedes-Benz L3000 A (4x4) with snow-plow - case report, Panzerserra Bunker,
https://panzerserra.blogspot.com/2013/01/mercedes-benz-l3000-with-snow-plow-case.html (Accessed 26/02/26)
[13] Fuels - Densities and Specific Volumes, The Engineering Toolbox,
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/fuels-densities-specific-volumes-d_166.html (Accessed 26/02/26)
[14] Bjarke, downscaled copy of the Oseberg ship (by Bengt Oberger),
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bjarke_01.jpg
[15] Data retrieved from the Domesday dataset, University of Hull, https://digitalcollections.hull.ac.uk/collections/dz010q52k (Accessed 20/12/25)
[16] OS Terrain® 50 Open Dataset, https://osdatahub.os.uk/data/downloads/open/Terrain50 (retrieved on under Open Government Licence 3 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
[17] Coventry Council House (User: DeFacto)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coventry_Council_House_facade_centre_portion.jpg
[18] Coventry Council https://www.coventry.gov.uk/counciltax (Accessed 21/01/26)
[19] Hemingstone church (User: Oxymoron)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemingstone_-_Church_of_St_Gregory.jpg
[20] Radcliffe Camera, Oxford by David Iliff
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radcliffe_Camera,_Oxford_-_Oct_2006.jpg
[21] Panorama depicting the Front Court of King's College Cambridge (User: Lamkingming)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorama_depicting_the_Front_Court_of_King's_College_Cambridge_v2.jpg
