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The Irish Civil War: The Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson (Part 1)
Jul 06, 2025Who was Sir Henry Wilson, and how was he shockingly murdered in 1922? Who ordered it? What was his attitude to the question of Irish Home Rule? Why has death been compared to the assassination of Arch...
The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4)
Jul 02, 2025What were the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed in December 1921, following negotiations between the UK and Sinn Féin? How was it received by the Irish people? What was the process by which it w...
The Irish War of Independence: Bloody Sunday (Part 3)
Jun 29, 2025What occurred on Bloody Sunday on 21 November 1920 - a turning point in the Irish War of Independence and one of the bloodiest and most brutal moments in Irish history? How many British Army Officers ...
The Irish War of Independence: The Violence Begins (Part 2)
Jun 25, 2025What was Sinn Féin’s totemic first move after winning a majority seat in 1917? Were the IRA’s methods during this early stages of the war as violent as they are commonly believed to have been? How sec...
The Irish War of Independence: Rise of the IRA (Part 1)
Jun 22, 2025What are the origins of the Irish War of Independence? What impact did the First World War have on Irish efforts for Home Rule? What was the mood in Ireland following the bloody Easter Rising of 1916?...
The Medici: The Bonfire of the Vanities (Part 4)
Jun 19, 2025Following the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was his Medici successor? Could he overcome the political turmoil and religious fervour in Florence, and rebuff the storm clouds of war gathering ov...
The Medici: Curse of the Mad Monk (Part 3)
Jun 15, 2025Did Lorenzo de’Medici’s rule in Florence incur prosperity, or was it a corrupt and autocratic regime, rife with torture, that would spell the doom of the former Republic? While building an edifice of ...
The Medici: Lorenzo the Magnificent (Part 2)
Jun 11, 2025Who was Lorenzo the Magnificent, the most glamorous, glittering, and blood-soaked of all the Medici, who became his family’s formidable but compulsive “Godfather” from the age of only twenty one? What...
The Medici: Masters of Florence (Part 1)
Jun 08, 2025What are the origins of one of history’s most glittering, and for a time, most powerful families in Europe; the Medici? How were they able to seize supreme power in the Republic of Florence , one of ...
Hannibal: Roman Bloodbath at Cannae (Part 4)
Jun 04, 2025How did the Battle of Cannae - one of the most important battles of all time for Ancient Rome, with a whole Empire at stake, and a reputation that had reverberated across the centuries - in 216 BC, un...