Aleister Crowley – wickedest man in the world?
Aleister Crowley was the High Priest of Satanism but was he really the wickedest man in the world and did he occasionally do something good?
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The tabloids cover the death of Princess Diana
TV historian Tony McMahon remembers the night of the death of Princess Diana through newspapers he kept for 25 years
Has mass cultural tourism gone completely mad?
Going to see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre has become an ordeal as Tony McMahon discovered and filmed
Notre Dame – seizing an opportunity from a tragedy
I’ve spent a lot of time in Paris this year and made two visits to Notre Dame in February and March. It made me sick to my stomach to see the cathedral in flames yesterday. But almost immediately, having immersed myself in the history of Notre Dame, I recognised an opportunity that could arise from…
Ancient Egyptian spoons – four thousand year old cutlery!
Spoons in Ancient Egypt fascinate Tony McMahon who has just seen some great examples in the Louvre in Paris
The filth and stench at Versailles
Versailles was an opulent gilded palace but it was also coated in filth according to contemporary sources as Tony McMahon discovers