In the closing months of the year 1888, the Whitechapel district of London was gripped with terror as a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper stalked the streets killing women in an incredibly grisly manner. Not just strangled or stabbed, but eviscerated with their organs removed. This mass murderer was never caught. But there’s…
Many political figures have been killed in a suspicious plane crash – their deaths unexplained to this day as Tony McMahon investigates
The Boer War is a forgotten conflict that pitched the British Empire against a group of white settlers in Africa. Tony McMahon investigates.
King Henry VIII had six wives, two of whom were brutally beheaded. What lay behind these multiple stormy marriages? TV historian Tony McMahon investigates.
Napoleon plotted an invasion of Ireland on several occasions as a way to weaken Britain as TV historian Tony McMahon discovers
The 1920s and 1930s saw a proliferation of crazy cults that shaped the counter-culture of the 1960s and 1970s as Tony McMahon discovers
Confederates at the end of the American Civil War fled to Brazil where slavery was still legal as TV historian Tony McMahon discovers
The brutal history of the Ku Klux Klan from its founding in 1865 and its record of murder exposed by TV historian Tony McMahon
Serial killers in the Wild West like John “Liver Eating” Johnson got clean away with their crimes as Tony McMahon discovers
What really happened in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and was Wyatt Earp a hero or a villain? TV historian Tony McMahon investigates
