Tom Rowsell (AKA Survive the Jive) is the far right’s go-to expert on “Indo-European” history and paganism, producing a regular stream of video, podcast and social media content that is often interspersed with racist tropes and far-right talking points.

Rowsell has a sizable online following, with 280,000 subscribers across his two YouTube accounts, almost 61,000 on X/Twitter and 15,000 on Telegram and funding his activities through Patreon, Subscribestar and ad revenue from YouTube.

A former freelance journalist, Rowsell has been active in far-right circles in the UK since the early 2010s and spoke at the Generation Identity UK conference in July 2019 and at a Traditional Britain Group event in December 2021.

Overseas, Rowsell attended the Identitarian Ideas conference in Stockholm in February 2017, which was organised and addressed by leading white nationalists from across Europe and the US. More recently, he addressed a meeting of the Dutch youth organisation, Jongerenorganisatie Forum voor Democratie, in Amsterdam in October 2024, and in October 2025, the first conference organised by Scyldings in Australia.

In addition to hosting a show on the “folkish Heathen podcast network” Hearthfire Radio, Rowsell runs his own podcast, on which he has hosted far-right figures including Charles Cornish-Dale (AKA Raw Egg Nationalist), Costin Alamariu (AKA Bronze Age Pervert), Paul Waggener and Eric Orwoll (AKA Aarvoll). He has also appeared on a multitude of far-right and white nationalist shows, including those of Benjamin “Beau” Dade (AKA History Bro), Colin Robertson (AKA Millennial Woes), Marcus Follin (AKA The Golden One), Edward Dutton (AKA The Jolly Heretic), as well as Arktos Media and Red Ice Radio.

Rowsell officiates the Hearth of Devon, a group that was, until 2023, affiliated to the  Odinist Fellowship. He also organised the Pagan Futures conference in June 2022, which featured Dan Capp and Boaz Vilallonga and brought a crowd of over 100 to London.

In December 2023, Rowsell attended a gathering of the private members club Neo Byzantium, an offshoot of the Human Diversity Foundation, a race science company exposed by HOPE not hate. He was filmed bemoaning “negrophilia” among Americans, calling it “their primary vice”, and further criticised the French for being “especially enamoured with blacks”. Rowsell has taken adverts from Liegent, an audiobook summary app launched by the Human Diversity Foundation leaders, promoting the service in his podcasts.