Walking through Lockdown London with a visor!
In early June 2020, I broke the Coronavirus lockdown and walked through the centre of London wearing a face visor to see how the city had changed
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Which Jesus Christ is true? Secrets of Lost Gospels
There were more than just Four Gospels of Jesus but many other stories of his life rejected by the early church as heretical as Tony McMahon discovers
The last hours of the life of Jesus Christ
Tony McMahon visited the church of Bom Jesus in Braga, northern Portugal to see the life-sized depiction of the final hours of the life of Jesus Christ
Coronavirus – and panic in history
In history we see episodes of huge panic as we’re now witnessing with Coronavirus and we saw with terrorism and the threat of nuclear war in the past
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
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
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
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
The Green Children of Wulpet
In medieval England two children with green skin entered the village of Wulpet causing a commotion – nobody knew exactly what they were
The horrible death of many medieval children
How might a medieval child die in ways that are very different to the risks faced by the young today. Tony McMahon investigates