QUEEN MARY I (The Bloody Mary) (P2)
FORGOTTEN VICTORY:Traditional assessments of Marys queenship have focused heavily on the apparent military failures of her reign, …
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QUEEN MARY I (The Bloody Mary) (P1)
Bloody Mary was a Catholic bigot, a half-Spanish tyrant who burned nearly 300 Protestant men, women and children in one of the mos…
The Real Story of EDWARD VI
The words are spare and factual: The Duke of Somerset had his head cut off upon Tower Hill between eight and nine oclock in the mo…
SIGMUND FREUD (The Man Who Changed The Face Of Modern Psychology) (Part 2)
It was also around this time that Freud appeared to give up what had been a 12-year-long cocaine addiction, having extolled the vi…
SIGMUND FREUD (The Man Who Changed The Face Of Modern Psychology) (Part 1)
Daddy issues, phallic symbols, defense mechanisms, Freudian slips; these are all common phrases thrown around in everyday conversa…
CLEOPATRA (The History Maker) (P2)
ROMAN RELATIONS: Or had she? With the powerful Roman Emperor as her lover, one brother permanently removed and Arsino captured and…
CLEOPATRA (The History Maker) (P1)
Cleopatra VII: Ancient Egypts most famous daughter, and its last active Pharaoh. A woman immortalised in film, on canvas and in p…
Battle Of Ypres (The End Of Old British Army)
September 1914 saw German forces advancing through northern France, having already marched through Belgium. They had been counter-…
East India Company (A SUMMARY)
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, trading corporation that grew to be an imperial power, ruling most…
CHARLES I (The King Who Got Executed By His Own Parliament) (Part 2)
THE KINGS COURT:On 13 December, the Rump broke o negotiations with the King and brought him to Hurst Castle, a grim fortress perch…
