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Preppers – is the world really about to end?

Tony McMahon4 weeks ago4 weeks ago223 mins

Preppers are a growing movement who believe the world is about to end but they are not a united group as Tony McMahon discovers

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The Confirmed Bachelor worries Victorians!

Tony McMahon4 weeks ago4 weeks ago09 mins

Confirmed bachelors were named and shamed in Victorian newspapers and urged to marry before they got too old, Tony McMahon discovers

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Rembrandt The Night Watch – being restored!

Tony McMahon6 months ago6 months ago04 mins

The Rembrandt 1642 masterpiece The Night Watch has been undergoing a massive restoration and is being hanged out of its frame in the Rijksmuseum

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Is Mary Magdalene under the Louvre?

Tony McMahon8 months ago8 months ago04 mins

TV historian Tony McMahon investigates whether Mary Magdalene really is buried under the Louvre Pyramid in Paris or not

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Ancient Greeks who became Buddhist

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago07 mins

How a kingdom of Ancient Greeks became Buddhist in modern Afghanistan and Pakistan as Tony McMahon discovers

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Inside a British lunatic asylum

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago010 mins

Tony McMahon shares his memories of a British lunatic asylum called Claybury hospital where both his parents worked in the 1960s

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Lisbon earthquake
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Catastrophic Lisbon earthquake of 1755

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago04 mins

The year 1755 saw the city of Lisbon destroyed by a massive earthquake followed by a tsunami and widespread fires as Tony McMahon discovers

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Daniel Defoe
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When the public loved not hated journalists

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago08 mins

There was a time when the public loved journalists – viewing them as champions of free speech while today the profession is hated by many on social media

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Teen diet in the 1940s – pigging out, staying slim

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago04 mins

The teen diet of an American young man in 1945 shows generous amounts of food without the widespread obesity we witness among young people today

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