Werewolves explained – from ancient legends to Hollywood!
As the horror genre revives in the movies and streaming TV series – it’s time that werewolves were explained being a hugely popular monster!
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The Anarchist assassination of President McKinley
In 1901 an anarchist called Leon Czolgosz was responsible for the assassination of President William McKinley – why did he do it?
The rat that was executed for murder!
Tsar Peter III of Russia is remembered as the man who executed a rat for murder – well, chewing the head off one of his toy soldiers
The Spanish Inquisition – what was it really like?
Tony McMahon visited a Spanish Inquisition prison to find out what really happened to heretics behind those walls
Ancient bog body murder mystery
Bog bodies are the well preserved remains of sacrificial victims placed in peat bogs by our ancestors
Murder of Jewish exiles in London – 700 years ago
King Edward I of England expelled Jewish people from his kingdom which resulted in a terrible mass murder in London as historian Tony McMahon discovers
The urban gang that terrorised Georgian London!
The Black Boy Alley gang terrorised Georgian London but were eventually executed en masse at Tyburn
The London of the The Frankenstein Chronicles
Historian Tony McMahon investigates the London of The Frankenstein Chronicles
Women in history – scandal and myth!
Powerful women in history have been subject to lies and myths like Lucrezia Borgia accused of being a serial poisoner with no evidence
The vampire Countess Bathory!
The aristocratic vampire Elizabeth Bathory sucked the blood of over 650 women in the late 16th century and horrified Europe with her crimes
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