Queen Victoria and her naughty drug habit
Queen Victoria is said to have had an unusual drug habit as Tony McMahon discovers in his vlog series Beardy History
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Victorian movies from the 19th century!
The idea of Victorian movies may seem weird – people in the 19th century able to watch films – and yet it actually happened! We’ve grown up with TV and film so the idea of living in a world were there are no recorded motion pictures would seem bizarre – even more so with our…
The First World War – by Peter Jackson
Beardy History blogger Tony McMahon look at They Shall Not Grow Old – a movie about the First World War from director Peter Jackson
New drama on killer Anders Breivik
Netflix has just released a drama called 22 July that details the murders carried out by the neo-fascist terrorist Anders Breivik in 2011
Were the lunar landings really faked?
The theory that the lunar landings of the 1960 and 1970s were faked has been a persistent claim as Tony McMahon discovers
Why Henry VIII had no friends
King Henry VIII had not friends at the end of his life having executed Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell and lost a few wives as well