Bliss is no historian. Rather, he’s a well known British comedian and YouTuber who staunchly defends his 10 stories of extraordinary side characters in humanity’s most major moments.

It’s a similar situation when Bliss takes on The Plague, which he personifies, with the aid of co-star Beth Rylance, as the glamorous Yersinia Pestis, the scientific name for the bacterium that causes ...

Bliss is no historian. Rather, he’s a well known British comedian and YouTuber who staunchly defends his 10 stories of extraordinary side characters in humanity’s most major moments.

Bliss seems charming, enthusiastic and ego-free – qualities that have helped him on the socials – but on the evidence of tonight he struggles to convert his lay interest in the past into a book, with ...