Prisoners infect judges with typhus – jail fever!
In 1750 three judges busily sentencing some criminals to death caught jail fever off them – and died of typhus a little while later
October 2019
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London hated the French long before Brexit
Xenophobia in London is nothing new as Londoners hated the French two hundred years ago as Tony McMahon discovers
The urban gang that terrorised Georgian London!
The Black Boy Alley gang terrorised Georgian London but were eventually executed en masse at Tyburn
The London of the The Frankenstein Chronicles
Historian Tony McMahon investigates the London of The Frankenstein Chronicles
Dog dung used to make books look good!
The worst job in Victorian London was that of Pure Finder – somebody who went round collecting dog dung for a living
Victorian slang for beginners!
If you would like to talk like a Victorian Londoner is a Charles Dickens novel then read this
Top five weird saints in the Catholic church
Many Catholic saints died in weird ways as Tony McMahon discovers on the Beardy History blog
Homosexuality and the abuse of psychology
Psychology is a relatively news science and in its first decades was very hostile to homosexuality as Tony McMahon discovers
2019 – a busy year for me on history TV programmes!
Tony McMahon calls himself the bearded historian and appears on history TV programmes making the subject fun and accessible to global audiences
Muslim Spain – heaven or hell for Jews and Christians?
Life for Christians and Jews in Muslim controlled Spain has often been portrayed as one of joyful tolerance but that may not be true, according to a new book