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March 28, 2023
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    Meteorite worship – holy sky objects!

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    The 1990s mania for outing gay men!

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    J. Edgar Hoover – the LGBT FBI boss?

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Muslim African slaves in America

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago04 mins

Muslim African slaves in America had a different status to non-Muslim slaves often being put in supervisory roles and regarded as more cultivated

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  • American history
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  • Ancient Egypt

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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  • history TV

Top history movie turkeys

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago17 mins

Tony McMahon looks at the history movie turkeys that made a complete mess of depicting the past either through miscasting or a host of other sins

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  • Jewish

Murder of Jewish exiles in London – 700 years ago

Tony McMahon3 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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  • London history

London hated the French long before Brexit

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago13 mins

Xenophobia in London is nothing new as Londoners hated the French two hundred years ago as Tony McMahon discovers

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  • slavery

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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