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The world’s museums of torture!

Tony McMahon1 year ago1 year ago07 mins

Chicago has just opened the first medieval torture museum in the United States – so why are these gory places so popular?

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Should the dead be on display in museums?

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago111 mins

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

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Metal detector treasure hunting comeback!

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago03 mins

etal detector enthusiasts have discovered lots of historical artefacts but new legislation means that treasure will have to be handed over

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Toppling statues and renaming streets – nothing new

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago26 mins

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

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Coronavirus message from Beardy History to all of you

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Tony McMahon aka Beardy History talks about the places he visited only weeks ago that are now closed because of the Coronavirus

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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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Berlin museums shut because of Coronavirus, however…

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago11 mins

Tony McMahon visited the Pergamon Museum in Berlin just before it shut because of the Coronavirus and captured amazing footage of this Roman gateway

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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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Neolithic statues that look like aliens

Tony McMahon4 years ago3 years ago33 mins

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…

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Corporate racism in the 1920s

Tony McMahon4 years ago3 years ago04 mins

A shocking example of vintage corporate racism with a 1923 Christmas card where African employees were treated as design accessories as Tony McMahon reports

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