King George IV’s Controversial Funeral: A Royal Disgrace
TV historian Tony McMahon discovers that a royal funeral is not always a dignified and sorrowful event – take the funeral of King George IV for example
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Uncovering England’s Lost Royal Palaces
TV historian Tony McMahon goes on the hunt for England’s lost royal palaces from Nonsuch Palace to Kennington Palace
Unmasking Royal Traditions: A Modern Invention
Is much of the tradition that surrounds the British Royal Family invented in surprisingly recent times? TV historian Tony McMahon suspects so.
Should the UK hand over the Elgin Marbles to Greece?
The British Museum is under huge pressure to return the Elgin Marbles back to Athens reuniting them with the Parthenon as Tony McMahon reports
Black British Georgian Rebel – William Davidson
William Davidson was a black British rebel who got involved in the Cato Street conspiracy of 1820 to kill the entire government
Loch Ness Monster: the cryptid in a Scottish lake
The Loch Ness Monster is a relatively recent legend so why did it become so popular? Tony McMahon investigates
Why Did Russia Sell Alaska to the U.S.?
Alaska was once part of Russia but the tsar sold it to the United States for a bargain sum. So might Vladimir Putin be eyeing it up?
Howard Carter – discoverer of Tutankhamun
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became global celebrities on discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun – though Carter wasn’t universally popular
Centenary of the Tutankhamun discovery!
2022 will be a hundred years since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and two hundred years since the Rosetta Stone was deciphered as Tony McMahon reports
Did the Founding Fathers oppose democracy?
The Founding Fathers never conceived of the United States as a democracy and let’s not get started on women, slaves and the poor as Tony McMahon discovers