Pompeii destroyed by a volcano!
Tony McMahon or Beardy History visits the ancient Roman city of Pompeii destroyed when the Vesuvius volcano erupted in 79 CE killing all inhabitants
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Buried: Templar treasure quest on History
Tony McMahon joins the History Channel’s documentary series Buried to investigate the Knights Templar filming in the Portuguese Templar stronghold of Tomar
Ten weird facts about Hitler
Ten weird facts about Adolf Hitler including his bedtime habits and what he ate
Politicians lynched by the London mob
In the past, politicians were lynched by mobs because they had fallen ouf of favour and as Tony McMahon discovers, politics was a dangerous business
Royal Weddings – tragic and comic events
With Harry and Meaghan getting married – a look back at royal weddings that have gone horribly wrong
Join me to discuss the Knights Templar at the Bradford Literature Festival
Professor Helen Nicholson and Tony McMahon will be talking about the Knights Templar at the Bradford Literature Festival in 2018
18th century Transgender diplomat celebrity
The examination in 1771 of transgender diplomat the Chevalier d’Eon
How the movie industry depicts the Nazis
The Nazis have been depicted by the movie industry in musicals, drama, comedy and propaganda as Tony McMahon discovers looking back at some examples
Discovering my US Cavalry ancestor on Ancestry.com
How Ancestry.com helped me identify my great uncle Francis McEnhill as a heroic US Cavalry officer in the Spanish-American war
Boy Jones steals the underwear of Queen Victoria
The story of Boy Jones and Queen Victoria