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Chatham High Street
Sep 14, 2025Why is Chatham High-street both futuristic and riddled with the past? Why was it a magnet for historical figures such as King John, Charles II, Nelson and Charles Dickens, and the location for some of...
The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6)
Sep 10, 2025After endeavouring to wreak their revenge on Serbia, what would be the greatest hammer blow to the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War? With Leviv having fallen apocalyptically to the R...
The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5)
Sep 05, 2025While the Western front was raging following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, what was unfolding on the Eastern Front? Why was it an even bloodier and more brutal arena than the West? As A...
The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4)
Sep 03, 2025What happened at the crucial, bloody, Battle of Ypres in October 1914? How did the battle come about? Why did the Germans and the British fight each other so brutally and for so long to take Ypres? Wh...
The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3)
Aug 31, 2025What extraordinary events saw the French - already on the brink of defeat - take on the formerly formidable German army in a remarkable counter-offensive on the 4th of September, in France, in a clash...
The First World War: The Battle of the Frontiers (Part 2)
Aug 27, 2025What was Britain's first military move following the outbreak of the First World War? Where did the French launch their initial attack on the Germans? Whose army was the biggest and best of all the pa...
The First World War: The Invasion of Belgium (Part 1)
Aug 24, 2025Following the declaration of war in 1914, how did the outbreak of the First World War unfold? What were the earliest military engagements of this terrible, totemic event? Who were its key political pl...
The Fight of the Century
Aug 20, 2025Why did two men - John Heenan and and Tom Sayers - illegally meet in a field in Hampshire, in 1860, to brutally fight one another, captivating Britain in the process? What can the fight tell us about ...
Mad Victorian Sport
Aug 17, 2025How and when was football invented, and what are the origins of football clubs? What is the connection between public hangings, highwaymen, and early sporting events? Which is the most historically im...
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Manhunt for the Killer (Part 2)
Aug 13, 2025How was President Abraham Lincoln murdered on Good Friday 1865, at Ford’s Theatre, just five days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender? Who was John Wilkes Booth, the racist actor with southern sympathies,...