Inside the Stasi – the East German secret police!
An explanation of the East Germany secret police – the Stasi – and the torture techniques they used.
2023
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Man in the High Castle: the real American Nazis?
The Man in the High Castle returns in 2018 – but who were the real American Nazis from the 1930s to the 1960s?
Lizard people – our reptilian overlords
David Icke has popularised the lizard people conspiracy theory but it actually has a much older pedigree as Tony McMahon discovers
Russia and fake news – a long history!
Russia has been allegedly pumping out fake news to undermine western value but this is nothing new as Tony McMahon discovers
Were the lunar landings really faked?
The theory that the lunar landings of the 1960 and 1970s were faked has been a persistent claim as Tony McMahon discovers
Flat Earthers have no support in Ancient history!
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
How Anne of Cleves kept her head!
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?
Why Henry VIII had no friends
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
Who was Britannia on the old penny coins?
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
Great Plague of London in 1665
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