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  • Stasi

Inside the Stasi – the East German secret police!

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago29 mins

An explanation of the East Germany secret police – the Stasi – and the torture techniques they used.

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  • alt-right

Man in the High Castle: the real American Nazis?

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago712 mins

The Man in the High Castle returns in 2018 – but who were the real American Nazis from the 1930s to the 1960s?

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  • lizard people

Lizard people – our reptilian overlords

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago07 mins

David Icke has popularised the lizard people conspiracy theory but it actually has a much older pedigree as Tony McMahon discovers

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  • Fake News

Russia and fake news – a long history!

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago19 mins

Russia has been allegedly pumping out fake news to undermine western value but this is nothing new as Tony McMahon discovers

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  • Lunar Landings

Were the lunar landings really faked?

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago17 mins

The theory that the lunar landings of the 1960 and 1970s were faked has been a persistent claim as Tony McMahon discovers

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  • Flat Earth

Flat Earthers have no support in Ancient history!

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago19 mins

Flat Earthers have enjoyed a growth in support for their view that the planet isn’t a globe despite even the Ancients believing that it was

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  • Henry VIII

How Anne of Cleves kept her head!

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago13 mins

Anne of Cleves was the fourth wife of Henry VIII often overlooked because she wasn’t beheaded but how did this resourceful and clever woman survive?

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  • Henry VIII

Why Henry VIII had no friends

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago17 mins

King Henry VIII had not friends at the end of his life having executed Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell and lost a few wives as well

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  • Charles II

Who was Britannia on the old penny coins?

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago44 mins

Britannia is a personification of Britain that appeared on the penny coin and may have been modelled on Frances Stuart – lover of King Charles II

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  • London history

Great Plague of London in 1665

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago14 mins

London experienced one plague after another under the Tudors and Stuarts culminating in the Great Plague of 1665 in the reign of King Charles II

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