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Werewolves explained – from ancient legends to Hollywood!

Tony McMahon6 months ago2 months ago010 mins

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

Tony McMahon7 months ago7 months ago014 mins

In 1901 an anarchist called Leon Czolgosz was responsible for the assassination of President William McKinley – why did he do it?

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The rat that was executed for murder!

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago04 mins

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

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The Spanish Inquisition – what was it really like?

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago03 mins

Tony McMahon visited a Spanish Inquisition prison to find out what really happened to heretics behind those walls

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Ancient bog body murder mystery

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago16 mins

Bog bodies are the well preserved remains of sacrificial victims placed in peat bogs by our ancestors

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Murder of Jewish exiles in London – 700 years ago

Tony McMahon4 years ago3 years ago05 mins

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

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The urban gang that terrorised Georgian London!

Tony McMahon4 years ago3 years ago27 mins

The Black Boy Alley gang terrorised Georgian London but were eventually executed en masse at Tyburn

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The London of the The Frankenstein Chronicles

Tony McMahon4 years ago3 years ago26 mins

Historian Tony McMahon investigates the London of The Frankenstein Chronicles

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Women in history – scandal and myth!

Tony McMahon4 years ago3 years ago310 mins

Powerful women in history have been subject to lies and myths like Lucrezia Borgia accused of being a serial poisoner with no evidence

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The vampire Countess Bathory!

Tony McMahon5 years ago3 years ago44 mins

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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