
The world’s museums of torture!
Chicago has just opened the first medieval torture museum in the United States – so why are these gory places so popular?
Chicago has just opened the first medieval torture museum in the United States – so why are these gory places so popular?
Should the dead be on display in museums? This ethical question in vexing museums all over the world as they face growing protests as Tony McMahon reports
etal detector enthusiasts have discovered lots of historical artefacts but new legislation means that treasure will have to be handed over
There is a long history of toppling statues and renaming streets and cities and historian Tony McMahon thinks we should vex a lot less about this
Tony McMahon aka Beardy History talks about the places he visited only weeks ago that are now closed because of the Coronavirus
Tony McMahon visited a Spanish Inquisition prison to find out what really happened to heretics behind those walls
Tony McMahon visited the Pergamon Museum in Berlin just before it shut because of the Coronavirus and captured amazing footage of this Roman gateway
Bog bodies are the well preserved remains of sacrificial victims placed in peat bogs by our ancestors
I was in the capital of Kosovo – the city of Pristina – last month and saw some incredible 7,000 year old statues from the Neolithic period that quite frankly, looked like aliens. At the Museum of Kosovo in Pristina, I browsed the strange Neolithic sculptures of alien like beings in glass cases. Oblong heads…
A shocking example of vintage corporate racism with a 1923 Christmas card where African employees were treated as design accessories as Tony McMahon reports