Thomas Rowsell

Thomas Rowsell (born 1985) is a British writer and film maker. In 2007 he started Survive the Jive, a blog and YouTube channel espousing an anti-modern spiritual philosophy informed by European pagan religions.
Family
Thomas grew up in Oxfordshire and Surrey in England. He was raised as a Roman Catholic and is a distant cousin of the High Church preacher Thomas James Rowsell and General Sir Walter Norris Congreve and a direct descendant of noted Anglo-Catholics Sir Anthony Fitzherbert and Sir Robert Broke SL. His great, great grandfather Norman Rowsell was a tea planter in British Ceylon.
Career
Thomas was a model as a teenager and was photographed by Mario Testino and later by Nan Goldin for the New York Times. He obtained a BA in Media and Communications at the University of Brighton in 2007 before moving to London where he began work as a journalist. His articles reviewing art and music were published by magazines such as Dazed and i-D. More recently a political article was published by conservative news site Breitbart. In 2008 Thomas travelled to Venezuela to make a film about how the popularity of breast surgery in that country demonstrates the cultural divide between social classes under Hugo Chavez.
After working for two years as a copywriter and sales manager for the social media start up SocialGO, Thomas returned to education, obtaining an MA in Medieval and Renaissance studies at University College London. His studies of the Icelandic sagas, Old English literature and Anglo-Saxon paganism, influenced the subject of his next film, From Runes to Ruins. The independently produced documentary was never broadcast but obtained an underground following, with over 10,000 likes on Facebook. Thomas also continued his work as a copywriter, writing for many websites on the subject of digital marketing.
By 2015, the Survive the Jive YouTube channel had amassed over 1 million views. The videos cover a diverse range of topics, including medieval history, religion, poetry, political events, health and fitness and nature but there is a heavy focus on Germanic paganism with an influence from the Traditionalist School.
Radio and TV Interviews
* Northern Runes Radio (31/1/2014)
* IQRA TV - Health Wealth (21/4/2014)
*THA Talks- Anglo-Saxon paganism (22/3/2015)
*Red Ice Radio - Anglo-Saxon Heathen Culture (27/5/2015)
* THA Talks - Yuletide, The Ancient Season (13/12/2015)
* Paganism, Christianity and the European Soul part 1 (19/2/2016)
* Paganism, Christianity and the European Soul part 2 (26/2/2016)

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