Your family tree – join me on Ancestry.com
BeardyHistory blogger Tony McMahon appeals to Ancestry.com users to share their experience of tracing their family trees
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Rob Riggle Global Investigator!
Rob Riggle Global Investigator is a new Discovery TV series including a search for the Holy Grail with Templar expert Tony McMahon
Covid today – Tuberculosis yesterday
Covid 19 is the new virus threatening our way of life but in the past, tuberculosis had a very similar impact on society as Tony McMahon discovers
Ancient bog body murder mystery
Bog bodies are the well preserved remains of sacrificial victims placed in peat bogs by our ancestors
Conspiracy theories promoted in Hollywood movies – we investigate!
Tony McMahon looks at Hollywood movies that promote conspiracy theories from the moon landings to the assassination of JFK
A warning to anti-vaxxers from history
A lesson from history for anti-vaxxers that when people stopped vaccinating in 19th century Ceylon – smallpox returned even worse than before as Tony McMahon reports
Filming for Strange Evidence – Discovery Science channel
Last Friday, I was filming for the next series of Strange Evidence which will be broadcast on Discovery Science in 2020. In case you missed the last series of Strange Evidence – we look at filmed material of bizarre phenomena and test out several theories as to what is happening. Then I reveal the most…
The Shroud of Turin – genuine or fake?
Tony McMahon investigates the Turin Shroud to see how science and faith have clashed over its authenticity and whether it really is the burial cloth of Jesus
Galvanism – Frankenstein science and the dead!
In the early 19th century a criminal was brought back to life using Galvanic methods – the use of electricity that inspired the novel, Frankenstein
Murder of Jews in London – 700 years ago
King Edward I of England expelled Jewish people from his kingdom which resulted in a terrible mass murder in London as historian Tony McMahon discovers