Preppers – is the world really about to end?
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!
Confirmed bachelors were named and shamed in Victorian newspapers and urged to marry before they got too old, Tony McMahon discovers
Rembrandt The Night Watch – being restored!
The Rembrandt 1642 masterpiece The Night Watch has been undergoing a massive restoration and is being hanged out of its frame in the Rijksmuseum
Is Mary Magdalene under the Louvre?
TV historian Tony McMahon investigates whether Mary Magdalene really is buried under the Louvre Pyramid in Paris or not
Ancient Greeks who became Buddhist
How a kingdom of Ancient Greeks became Buddhist in modern Afghanistan and Pakistan as Tony McMahon discovers
Inside a British lunatic asylum
Tony McMahon shares his memories of a British lunatic asylum called Claybury hospital where both his parents worked in the 1960s
Catastrophic Lisbon earthquake of 1755
The year 1755 saw the city of Lisbon destroyed by a massive earthquake followed by a tsunami and widespread fires as Tony McMahon discovers
When the public loved not hated journalists
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
Teen diet in the 1940s – pigging out, staying slim
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