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?
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Should the dead be on display in museums?
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
Metal detector treasure hunting comeback!
etal detector enthusiasts have discovered lots of historical artefacts but new legislation means that treasure will have to be handed over
Toppling statues and renaming streets – nothing new
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
Coronavirus message from Beardy History to all of you
Tony McMahon aka Beardy History talks about the places he visited only weeks ago that are now closed because of the Coronavirus
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
Berlin museums shut because of Coronavirus, however…
Tony McMahon visited the Pergamon Museum in Berlin just before it shut because of the Coronavirus and captured amazing footage of this Roman gateway
Ancient bog body murder mystery
Bog bodies are the well preserved remains of sacrificial victims placed in peat bogs by our ancestors
Neolithic statues that look like aliens
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…
Corporate racism in the 1920s
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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