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ANCIENT
Agrippina and Messalina: Rivals for Power
Akhenaten: The Heretic Pharaoh
Alexander the Great: Mutiny at Opis
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Ancient Roman Law
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
Battle of Thermopylae: Go tell the Spartans
Boudica: Warrior Queen of the Iceni
Calgacus at Mons Gropius
Cleopatra Seduces Mark Antony
Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh
Caligula
Caractacus: The Indomitable Celt
Constantine I: The Vision of the Cross
Death of Socrates
Destruction of Pompeii
Druids: The Celtic Priesthood
Elagabalus: Queen of Rome
Emperor Commodus: The Gladiator
Emperor Hadrian
Emperor Nero: Fiddling While Rome Burns
Emperor Nero: Persecuting the Christians
Empress Theodora
Gladiators
Hannibal, Sworn to Rome's Destruction
Hypatia: A Woman of Substance
Jezebel: The Whore of Baal
Julius Caesar: Crossing the Rubicon
Julius Caesar: The Ides of March
A Portrait of Julius Caesar
Life of a Roman Slave
Livia: First Empress of Rome
Locusta: The Poisoner of Rome
Olympias: Mother of Alexander
Pericles Funeral Oration
Roman Diet
Romano-Jewish War
Spartacus
The Druids According to Caesar
The Innocence of Pontius Pilate?
The Lost Legions: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest
The Story of Salome
Tiberius: The Bloodless Bureaucrat
Vespasian: Year of the Four Emperors
Vestal Virgins: Keepers of the Flame
GEORGIAN
A Hanging in 18th Century England
A Highwayman's Letter to his Victim
Battle of Waterloo: A Near Run Thing
Beau Brummell
Brighton Pavilion: The Prince Regent's Palace
Burke and Hare: The Body Snatchers
Canaletto: The Venetian Wonder
Captain Bligh's Letter to his Wife
Clans For and Against the Bonnie Prince
Clive of India: Making an Empire
Death of Lord Nelson
Duchess of Richmond's Ball
Flora MacDonald: The Reluctant Jacobite
French Revolutionary Calendar
General Wolfe: The Heights of Abraham
George and Caroline: A Royal Marriage from Hell
Georgian Style
Harris's List: Pimps and Prostitutes of Old London Town
Highwaymen: Stand and Deliver!
John Clare: The Peasant Poet
John Keats: Too Beautiful to Live
John Newton: Amazing Grace
Luddites, Captain Swing, Radicals and Reforms
Mother Clap's Molly House
Mutiny on the Bounty
Nelson and Trafalgar
Robert Burns: The Ploughman Poet
Robert Southey: Romance Interrupted
Rob Roy MacGregor: A Highland Legend
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
Slave Ship Zong
Smuggling in Georgian England
The Bloody Code: Law and Order in Georgian England
The Bonnie Prince and the '45
The Gordon Riots
The Many Women of Sir Thomas Lawrence
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Tolpuddle Martyrs
William Blake: The Proverbs of Hell
William Blake: Visions of Heaven and Hell
William Hogarth: London's Critical Eye
Wilberforce and Slavery
William Wilberforce Addresses the House of Commons
William Wilberforce: His Abolition Speech
MODERN
Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue
Al Capone: The St Valentine's Day Massacre
Alexandra Feodorovna: The Lat Tsarina
Alfred Noyes: The Highwayman
Amelia Earhart: The Lady Lindy
Amritsar Massacre
Anarchism: The First Great Terror
Ante Pavelic: The Butcher of the Balkans
Anton Mussert: Hitler's Quisling
Arctic Convoys
Baader-Meinhof
Barcelona: A Revolution Betrayed
Battle of Adowa
Battle of Britain: The Few
Battle of Jutland: Clash of the Titans
Battle of the Ebro (1938)
Battle of Tsu Shima
Bela Kiss: Beast of Cinkota
Benito Mussolini: Duce
Bodyline: Bradman, Jardine, and the Ashes
Canary Girls
Chamberlain's Announcement of War
Christmas Truce, 1914
Churchill Ousted
Churchill's Darkest Hour
City of Benares: Murder of the Innocents
Countess Markiewicz
D.C Stephenson and the Decline of the Klan
Diary of Anne Frank
Dr Crippen: The Body in the Cellar
Dunkirk: A Miracle of Deliverance
Eddie Slovik: Shot at Dawn
Einsatzgruppen
Emily Davison: The Derby Day Martyr
Emma Goldman: The Most Dangerous Woman
Enoch Powell
Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood
Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox
Escape from Alcatraz
Eva Braun: Frau Hitler
Eva Peron: Evita
Fanni Kaplan: Assassinating Lenin
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Gallipoli: Forcing the Dardanelles
Gavrilo Princip: The Consumptive Assassin
G.K Chesterton: Lepanto
Great War Gas Attack!
Great War Posters: Recruitment and Propaganda
Hanna Reitsch: Nazi Test Pilot
Heinrich Himmler: Hitler's Executioner
Hindenburg Disaster
Hirohito: The Emperor's New Clothes
Hitler Receives Britain's Ultimatum
Hitler's Last Days: Twilight of the Gods
Huey Long: The Kingfish
In Flanders Fields
Irma Grese & Ilse Koch: Devil's Disciples
Italy and the Great War: Death in the Snow
Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope
Johann Georg Elser: Killing Hitler
John Dillinger: Public Enemy Number One
John George Haigh: The Acid Bath Murderer
Joseph Chamberlain and Tariff Reform
Joseph Goebbels: The Propagandist
Josef Mengele: Angel of Death
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kamikaze: Divine Wind
Karl Radek: On Lenin's Sealed Train
Kristallnacht: Night of the Broken Glass
Lord Kitchener: Your Country Needs You!
Lusitania: Murder on the High Seas
Lydia Litvyak: White Rose of Stalingrad
Madame Caillaux: A Crime of Passion
Magda Goebbels: First Lady of the Third Reich
Marshal Petain
Mata Hari: Femme Fatale
Nazi Racial Hygiene: Murder of the Innocents
Nechaev the Nihilist
Nestor Makhno: Forgotten Revolutionary
Neville Heath: The Sadistic Charmer
Night of the Long Knives
Omaha Beach
Operation Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler
Oswald Mosley: Britain's Fuhrer
Pals Battalions and the Thankful Village
Pearl Harbor: Tora! Tora! Tora!
Pope John Paul I: Murder and Corruption in the Holy City
Pope Pius XII
Prisoners of the Japanese
Prohibition: A Great Moral Re-Awakening
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Rasputin: The Devil made Flesh
Ravachol, Vaillant and Henry
Red Rosa Luxemburg
Rommel Chooses Suicide
Roswell: Aliens in New Mexico
Royal Oak: Tragedy at Scapa Flow
Rudolf Hess: Nazi Mystic
Rupert Brooke: The Soldier
Ruth Ellis: Last Woman Hanged in Britain
Sacco and Vanzetti
Scopes Monkey Trial: Darwin in the Dock
Scott of the Antarctic
Siege of Mafeking
Siege of Sidney Street
Siegfried Sassoon: Suicide in the Trenches
Sinking the Bismarck
Sir Roger Casement and the Black Diaries
Slapton Sands Tragedy
Somme Battle: The First Day
Sophie Scholl: Guillotined by the Nazis
The Abdication Crisis
The Assassination of Heydrich
The Blitz
The Bombing of Dresden
The Cottingley Fairies
The Dambusters
The Dreyfus Affair
The Fall of Singapore
The Haymarket Riot
The Lancastria: Churchill's Dark Secret
The Legion of St George
The Martyrdom of Nurse Edith Cavell
The Mitford Sisters
The Nazi Olympics
The Red Baron
The Scottsboro Boys
The Stonewall Riots
The Suffragettes: Votes for Women
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
The War Poets: Sassoon, Brooke and Owen
Those Who Hanged at Nuremburg
Titanic: Recovering the Dead, A Captain's Account
Titanic: Struck an Iceberg, Shook the World
Titanic II: Finding the Dead
Titanic III: Flying in the Face of God
Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
Traitors: The Cambridge Spies
Trials of Oscar Wilde
Tsar Nicholas II: Last of the Romanovs
Unit 731: A Vile Contagion
Verdun: Hell on Earth
Wall Street Bombing
Wannsee Conference
Wartime Rationing
Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est
Wilhelm Gustloff: Greatest Maritime Disaster
William Jennings Bryan: Cross of Gold
William Joyce: Lord Haw Haw
Women of the S.O.E
World War One: The Last Days
Young Adolf: The Adolescent Hitler and Beyond
Zeppelin: Terror from the Sky
Zimmerman Telegram
POLITICS
Cromwell and the Rump
Disraeli and Gladstone: Rivals for Power
Emma Goldman: The Most Dangerous Woman
Enoch Powell
Huey Long: The Kingfish
Jean-Paul Marat: The Great Denunciator
Joseph Chamberlain and Tariff Reform
Oswald Mosley: Britain's Fuhrer
Robert Burns: The Ploughman Poet
Upton Sinclair: A Socialist Governor for California
William Jennings Bryan: Cross of Gold
William Jennings Bryan: The Great Commoner
Winston Churchill: We Shall Never Surrender
VICTORIAN
Alfred Lord Tennyson: Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott
Reporting the Charge of the Light Brigade
Amelia Dyer: Baby Farming and Murder
A Victorian Christmas
A Visit from St Nicholas
Battle of Omdurman: Blood in the Sand
Cawnpore: Massacre at the Bibighar
Charge of the Light Brigade: Somebody Blundered
Christina Rossetti: Remember
Cleveland Street Scandal
Coventry Patmore: The Angel in the House
Disraeli and Gladstone: Rivals for Power
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How Do I Love Thee
Emily Bronte: The Bluebell
Ernest Crofts: Painting the Civil War
Eugene Delacroix
Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919)
Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
Gordon of Khartoum
Grace Darling: The Girl with the Windswept Hair
Henry Morton Stanley: Dr Livingstone, I Presume
Irish Famine
Jack the Ripper: Letters
Jack the Ripper: The Women
Who was Jack the Ripper?
John Everett Millais
Lizzie Siddal: An Artist's Obsession
Lord Frederick Leighton: Victorian Artist
Mandalay
Queen Victoria's Coronation: A Bothed Affair
Queen Victoria's Coronation Journal
Victoria becomes Queen
Retreat from Kabul
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
Battle of Isandlwana: Empire Humbled
Rorke's Drift: Empire at Bay
Rudyard Kipling: A Smugglers Song
Sir Edwin Landseer
Sir Francis Dicksee (1853-1928)
Surgeon Reynold's: Rorke's Drift
Spring-Heeled Jack: A Victorian Terror
Tay Bridge Disaster
The Birkenhead Drill
The Bronte Family
The Chartists: Moral or Physical Force?
The Clattering Train
The Fox Sisters: A Victorian Deception
The Great Exhibition (1851)
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Rani of Jhansi
Victoria and Albert
Victoria Hall Tragedy
Victorian Death
Victorian Eroticism and Sexuality
Victorian Fairy Painting
Victorian Spiritualism
Victorian Workhouse: The Pauper's Prison
Vital Lampada: (Torch of Life)
William Ernest Henley: Invictus
William Henry Hunt: Victorian Watercolour
William Jennings Bryan: The Great Commoner
William Powell Frith: A Victorian Chronicler
Wreck of the Princess Alice
ART
Anthony Van Dyck: At the Court of Charles I
Before the Inquisition
Canaletto: The Venetian Wonder
Caravaggio: The Artist as a Doomed Man
Elizabeth, Lady Butler: Portraits of War
Ernest Crofts: Painting the Civil War
Eugene Delacroix
Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919)
Franz Winterhalter (1805-73): The Glamourist
Gustave Dore: Images of Victorian London
Helen Allingham (1848-1926): A Rural Idyll
Jacques-Louis David: The Devil's Playground
Jan Vermeer: Light as Magic
Jean Auguste-Ingres: The Classicist
John Everett Millais
John Martin: Painting the Apocalypse
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Lizzie Siddal: An Artist's Obsession
Lord Frederick Leighton: Victorian Artist
Rembrandt: The Dutch Master
Sir Edwin Landseer
Sir Francis Dicksee (1853-1928)
Sir Peter Paul Rubens: The Glamourist
Sir Peter Lely and the Windsor Beauties
The Many Women of Sir Thomas Lawrence
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Toulouse Lautrec: The Image of Paris
William Blake: Visions of Heaven and Hell
William Dobson: The Cavalier Painter
William Hogarth: London's Critical Eye
Velazquez: At the Court of Philip IV
Victorian Fairy Painting
William Henry Hunt: Victorian Watercolour
William Powell Frith: A Victorian Chronicler
MEDIEVAL
Alfred the Great
A Medieval Christmas
Battle of Crecy (1346)
Battle of Towton
Caravaggio: The Artist as a Doomed Man
Caterina Sforza: Lady of Imola
Catherine de Medici: Madame Snake
Death of the Borgia Pope
Declaration of Arbroath
Elisabeth Bathory: Countess of Blood
Fall of Constantinople: Ending Byzantium
First Crusade
Galileo Galilei: An Inquisitive Mind
Gilles de Rais: A Medieval Killer
Harold II: Last Saxon King of England
Hereward the Wake
Isabella of Fife: Crowning the Bruce
Joan of Arc: Maid of Orleans
King John Lackland: The Idiot Son
Knights Templar: Warriors of Christ
Lucrezia Borgia, Lust, Jealousy, Poison and Murder
Magna Carta Liberatum
Matilda: First Lady of the English
Medieval Medicine
Nostradamus: Prophet or Charlatan?
Owain Glyndwr: The Welsh Dragon
Princes in the Tower
Queen Eleanor's Cross
Queen Isabella II: The She Wolf of France
Richard the Lionheart
Richard II: The Boy Who Would Be King
King Richard III: A Villain for all Time
Robert the Bruce: Spirit of Scotland
Savonarola: Bonfire of the Vanities
Siege of Vienna (1529): The Devil let Loose
Simon de Montford: Provisions of Oxford
Spanish Inquisition: Torquemada and Torture
The Battle of Agincourt
Eyewitness to Agincourt
The Agincourt Carol
The Black Death: Brink of the Apocalypse
The Cadaver Synod
The Declaration of Arbroath
The Horns of Hattin
The Peasants Revolt
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
The Vikings: Storm from the North
Thomas Becket: Murdered in the Cathedral
Vlad the Impaler
William Wallace
MONARCHY
Anne Boleyn's Last Letter to the King
Anne Boleyn: The Goggle-Eyed Whore
Assassination of Tsar Alexander II
Battle of Towton
Bloody Mary
Catherine of Aragon's Last Letter
Charles II's Great Escape
Empress Elisabeth (Sisi): Another Habsburg Tragedy
Executing the Romanovs
Execution of King Louis XVI
Gavrilo Princip: The Consumptive Assassin
George and Caroline: A Royal Marriage from Hell
Good Queen Bess: Coronation of Elizabeth I
Harold II: Last Saxon King of England
Isabella of Fife: Crowning the Bruce
King Charles II's Great Escape
King John Lackland: The Idiot Son
King Richard III: A Villain for all Time
Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Day Queen
Marie Antoinette: The Austrian Whore
Matilda: First Lady of the English
Princes in the Tower
Princess Elizabeth's Tide Letter
Elizabeth I: An Encounter with an Aged Queen
Victoria becomes Queen
Queen Elizabeth I: Golden Speech
Queen Elizabeth I: Tilbury Address
Queen Eleanor's Cross
Queen Victoria's Coronation: A Botched Affair
Queen Victoria's Coronation Journal
Richard II: The Boy Who Would Be King
Robert the Bruce: Spirit of Scotland
The Abdication Crisis
The Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II
The King's Dilemma
The Mayerling Incident: A Habsburg Tragedy
The Mistresses of Charles II
Tsar Nicholas II: Last of the Romanovs
Victoria and Albert
Victoria and Albert: A Royal Coupling
STUART
Anthony Van Dyck: At the Court of Charles I
Battle of Edgehill
Battle of Marston Moor
Battle of Naseby
Battle of the Boyne
Brilliana Harley: A Woman of Substance
Charles II's Great Escape
Colonel Blood: Stealing the Crown Jewels
Cromwell and the Rump
Cromwell in Ireland
Darien Expedition
Duke of Monmouth: The Bastard Son
Eikon Basilike
Glencoe: Murder under Trust
Gunpowder Plot: Remember, Remember...
Hopton and Waller: Friends Divided
Inferno: The Great Fire of London
John Donne: The Flea
John Evelyn & Samuel Pepys: Diary Extracts
King Charles II's Great Escape
King James Bible
Pendle Witches
Pilgrim Fathers
Prince Rupert's Dog
Propaganda in the English Civil War
Putney Debates
Queen Henrietta Maria
Salem Witch Trials
Sir Peter Lely and the Windsor Beauties
Sir Peter Paul Rubens: The Glamourist
The Glorious Revolution
The King's Dilemma
The King's Nemesis
The Major-Generals
The Mistresses of Charles II
The Regicides
The Verney's: A Civil War Family
The Witch-finder General
Titus Oates and the Fake Popish Plot
Trial and Execution of Charles I
William Dobson: The Cavalier Painter
WAR
54th Massachusetts: Freedom Under Arms
Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue
A Mexican Remembers the Alamo
Arctic Convoys
Barcelona: A Revolution Betrayed
Battle of Adowa
Battle of Brandy Station
Battle of Britain: The Few
Battle of Camerone: Making of a Legend
Battle of Crecy (1346)
Battle of Edgehill
Battle of Flodden Field
Battle of Jutland: Clash of the Titans
Battle of Lepanto
Battle of Marston Moor
Battle of Naseby
Battle of Omdurman: Blood in the Sand
Battle of the Boyne
Battle of the Ebro (1938)
Battle of Towton
Battle of Tsu Shima
Battle of Waterloo: A Near Run Thing
Benito Mussolini: Duce
Blood River
Bonaparte's Retreat from Moscow
Brilliana Harley: A Woman of Substance
Cawnpore: Massacre at the Bibighar
Champ Ferguson: Confederate Partisan
Charge of the Light Brigade: Somebody Blundered
Christmas Truce, 1914
Churchill's Darkest Hour
City of Benares: Murder of the Innocents
Cromwell in Ireland
Custer's Last Stand
Defending the Alamo
Dunkirk: A Miracle of Deliverance
Eddie Slovik: Shot at Dawn
Enduring the Blitz
Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox
Evacuating Dunkirk
Eyewitness to Waterloo
Fall of Constantinople: Ending Byzantium
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
First Crusade
Gallipoli: Forcing the Dardanelles
General Wolfe: The Heights of Abraham
Gordon of Khartoum
Great Siege of Malta (1565)
Great War Gas Attack!
Great War Posters: Recruitment and Propaganda
Hannibal, Sworn to Rome's Destruction
H.L Hunley: The First Submarine
Hopton and Waller: Friends Divided
Isabella of Fife: Crowning the Bruce
Italy and the Great War: Death in the Snow
John Wilkes Booth: The Assassination of Tyrants
Joseph Goebbels: The Propagandist
Kamikaze: Divine Wind
King Richard III: A Villain for all Time
Lord Kitchener: Your Country Needs You!
Lusitania: Murder on the High Seas
Lydia Litvyak: White Rose of Stalingrad
Nelson and Trafalgar
Omaha Beach
Operation Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler
Pals Battalions and the Thankful Village
Pearl Harbor: Tora! Tora! Tora!
Pickett's Charge
Pipers of War
Prisoners of the Japanese
Quantrell's Raiders
Queen Elizabeth I: Tilbury Address
Battle of Isandlwana: Empire Humbled
Rorke's Drift: Empire at Bay
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Royal Oak: Tragedy at Scapa Flow
Siege of Mafeking
Slapton Sands Tragedy
Surgeon Reynold's: Rorke's Drift
Reporting the Charge of the Light Brigade
Retreat from Kabul
Siege of Vienna (1529): The Devil let Loose
Siege of Vienna (1683): Enemy at the Gates
Siegfried Sassoon: Suicide in the Trenches
Sinking the Bismarck
Somme Battle: The First Day
Spanish Armada: The Enterprise of England
The Assassination of Heydrich
The Bombing of Dresden
The Dambusters
The Fall of Singapore
The Horns of Hattin
The Lancastria: Churchill's Dark Secret
The Legion of St George
The Lost Legions: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest
The Red Baron
The Rough Riders: An Account
The Victoria Cross: For Valour
The War Poets: Sassoon, Brooke and Owen
Verdun: Hell on Earth
Wannsee Conference
War in the Vendee
Wilhelm Gustloff: Greatest Maritime Disaster
World War One: The Last Days
Zeppelin: Terror from the Sky
FACT FILE
Abraham Lincoln: A Description
A Highwayman's Letter to his Victim
Alexander the Great: Mutiny at Opis
A Mexican Remembers the Alamo
Anarchism: The First Great Terror
Anne Boleyn's Last Letter to the King
Anne Boleyn on the Scaffold
Antony meets Cleopatra
A Portrait of Julius Caesar
Before the Inquisition
Calgacus at Mons Gropius
Captain Bligh's Letter to his Wife
Chamberlain's Announcement of War
Clans For and Against the Bonnie Prince
Corbett Defeats Sullivan
Danton Rallies the People
Death of Lord Nelson
Death of Socrates
Death of the Borgia Pope
Declaration of Arbroath
Edmund Burke: Defending Marie Antoinette
Elizabeth I: An Encounter with an Aged Queen
Emperor Nero: Persecuting the Christians
Enduring the Blitz
Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood
Evacuating Dunkirk
Executing the Romanovs
Execution of King Louis XVI
Eyewitness to Waterloo
French Revolutionary Calendar
Gettysburg Address
Goethe Meets Napoleon
Great War Posters: Recruitment and Propaganda
Hamilton and Burr: The Duel
Hitler Receives Britain's Ultimatum
Jack the Ripper: Letters
John Evelyn & Samuel Pepys: Diary Extracts
Julius Caesar: Crossing the Rubicon
Karl Radek: On Lenin's Sealed Train
King Henry VIII: An Account
Meeting Bloody Mary
Napoleon in Exile: An Eyewitness Account
Nechaev's Revolutionary Catechism
Notable Briton's Who Fought in the Great War
Origins of Hallowe'en: A Pagan Festival
Pericles Funeral Oration
Princess Elizabeth's Tide Letter
Queen Elizabeth I: Golden Speech
Queen Victoria's Coronation Journal
Reporting the Charge of the Light Brigade
Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being
Robespierre Justifies the Terror
Rommel Chooses Suicide
Sack of Constantinople: An Eyewitness Account
Salem: Eyewitness to Hysteria
Saint-Just Calls for the King's Death
St Just's Letter to Robespierre
Surgeon Reynold's: Rorke's Drift
The Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II
The Druids According to Caesar
The Great Slave Auction
The Rough Riders: An Account
The Victoria Cross: For Valour
Titanic III: Flying in the Face of God
Titanic: Recovering the Dead, A Captain's Account
Tudor Punishment: A Contemporary Account
William Jennings Bryan: Cross of Gold
William Wilberforce Addresses the House of Commons
William Wilberforce: His Abolition Speech
Winston Churchill: We Shall Never Surrender
MISCELLANEOUS
54th Massachusetts: Freedom Under Arms
Andersonville Prison Camp
Anne Bonny: A Pirate of the Caribbean
Assassination of Tsar Alexander II
Barbary Pirates
Battle of Brandy Station
Battle of Camerone: Making of a Legend
Battle of Lepanto
Belle Boyd: Cleopatra of Secession
Belle Starr
Blood River
Bloody Bill Anderson
Bodyline: Bradman, Jardine, and the Ashes
Bonaparte's Retreat from Moscow
Calamity Jane
Champ Ferguson: Confederate Partisan
Charlotte Corday: Murderer of Marat
Custer's Last Stand
Death in Europe in Past Centuries
Defending the Alamo
Delphine LaLaurie: A Guignol Horror
Doc Holliday: The Deadly Dentist
Donner Party: Death of a Wagon Train
Edgar Allan Poe: An Eternal Mourning
Edmund Burke: Defending Marie Antoinette
Edmund Ruffin: Firing the First Shot
Empress Elisabeth (Sisi): Another Habsburg Tragedy
Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of the Incas
French Revolutionary Calendar
General Slocum: Tragedy on the East River
Glencoe: Murder under Trust
Great Siege of Malta (1565)
Harriet Tubman: Mother Moses
Hernan Cortes: Montezuma's Nightmare
H.L Hunley: The First Submarine
Hollywood Glamour: Four Women
Italian Unification: Il Risorgimento
Jean-Paul Marat: The Great Denunciator
Jesse James: The Last Rebel
John Brown: The Taper Light of Freedom
John Wesley Hardin: Shot a Man for Snoring
John Wilkes Booth: The Assassination of Tyrants
Josephine: Bonaparte's Muse
KKK: Rise and Fall of the Invisible Empire
Lizzie Borden: Axe Murderer?
Louise Michel: Heroine of the Commune
Luddites, Peterloo, and Captain Swing
Madame Roland: O Liberty!
Mad Ludwig: The Fairytale King
Marie Antoinette: The Austrian Whore
Mary Shelley: The Night She Wrote Frankenstein
Massacre at Wounded Knee: Spirits in the Twilight
Marquis de Sade: Days of Sodom
Mystery of the Marie Celeste
Nat Turner: Slave Insurrection
Nechaev's Revolutionary Catechism
Ned Kelly: Outlaw of the Outback
Night of the Long Knives
Nine of Diamonds: Curse of Scotland
Pickett's Charge
Pipers of War
Polari: The Language of Gay London
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Quantrell's Raiders
Ravachol, Vaillant and Henry
Rose O'Neal Greenhow: Confederate Spy
Salem: Eyewitness to Hysteria
Siege of Vienna (1683): Enemy at the Gates
Sultana: Tragedy on the Mississippi
The Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II
The Cottingley Fairies
The Commune: Paris in Flames
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Major-Generals
The Mayerling Incident: A Habsburg Tragedy
The Poor Laws
Upton Sinclair: A Socialist Governor for California
Verlaine & Rimbaud: A Torrid Affair
War in the Vendee
Wild Bill Hickok
POETRY
Alfred Lord Tennyson: Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott
Alfred Noyes: The Ballad of Dick Turpin
Alfred Noyes: The Highwayman
A Life by Sir Walter Raleigh
Anne Boleyn's Last Poem
August Stramm: Battlefield/Attack/War Grave
A Visit from St Nicholas
Christina Rossetti: Remember
Coventry Patmore: The Angel in the House
Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How Do I Love Thee
Emily Bronte: The Bluebell
G.K Chesterton: Lepanto
In Flanders Fields
J Milton Hayes: The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God
John Clare: The Peasant Poet
John Donne: The Flea
John Keats: Too Beautiful to Live
King Henry VIII: Youth Rules Me
Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty
Mandalay
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943): For the Fallen
Robert Southey: Romance Interrupted
Rudyard Kipling: A Smugglers Song
Rudyard Kipling's IF
Rupert Brooke: The Soldier
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
Siegfried Sassoon: Suicide in the Trenches
Sir Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt
The Agincourt Carol
The Clattering Train
The War Poets: Sassoon, Brooke and Owen
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Verlaine and Rimbaud: A Torrid Affair
Vital Lampada (Torch of Life)
Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est
William Blake: The Proverbs of Hell
William Ernest Henley: Invictus
William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
TUDOR
A Life by Sir Walter Raleigh
Anne Boleyn's Last Letter to the King
Anne Boleyn's Last Poem
Anne Boleyn on the Scaffold
Anne Boleyn: The Goggle-Eyed Whore
Battle of Flodden Field
Bloody Mary
Catherine of Aragon's Last Letter
Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England
Christopher Marlowe: Poet, Playwright, Heretic, Spy
Earl of Essex: Betrayal and Treason
Elizabeth Barton: Holy Maid of Kent
Executing Mary, Queen of Scots: An Account
Field of the Cloth of Gold
Henry VII: The Forgotten Tudor
John Foxe: Actes and Monuments
King Henry VIII: Youth Rules Me
King Henry VIII: An Account
Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Day Queen
Marian Burnings
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Meeting Bloody Mary
Princess Elizabeth's Tide Letter
Good Queen Bess: Coronation of Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I: The Woodstock Verse
Queen Elizabeth I: Golden Speech
Queen Elizaeth I: Tilbury Address
Elizabeth I: An Encounter with an Aged Queen
Last Days of Queen Elizabeth I
Sir Francis Drake: Singeing the King of Spain's Beard
Sir Thomas More: A Martyr to Conscience
Sir Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt
Sir Walter Raleigh: An Elizabethan Adventurer
Spanish Armada: The Enterprise of England
The Death of Amy Robsart
The Pilgrimage of Grace
Tudor Punishment: A Contemporary Account
WOMEN
Alexandra Feodorovna: The Last Tsarina
Amelia Dyer: Baby Farming and Murder
Amelia Earhart: The Lady Lindy
Anne Boleyn's Last Poem
Anne Boleyn: The Goggle-Eyed Whore
Anne Bonny: A Pirate of the Caribbean
Belle Boyd: Cleopatra of Secession
Belle Starr
Bloody Mary
Boudica: Warrior Queen of the Iceni
Calamity Jane
Canary Girls
Caterina Sforza: Lady of Imola
Catherine de Medici: Madame Snake
Charlotte Corday: Murderer of Marat
Countess Markiewicz
Delphine LaLaurie: A Guignol Horror
Diary of Anne Frank
Elisabeth Bathory: Countess of Blood
Elizabeth Barton: Holy Maid of Kent
Elizabeth, Lady Butler: Portraits of War
Emily Davison: The Derby Day Martyr
Empress Elisabeth (Sisi): Another Habsburg Tragedy
Empress Theodora
Eva Braun: Frau Hitler
Eva Peron: Evita
Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919)
Fanni Kaplan: Assassinating Lenin
Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
Grace Darling: The Girl with the Windswept Hair
Harriet Tubman: Mother Moses
Helen Allingham (1848-1926): A Rural Idyll
Hollywood Glamour: Four Women
Hypatia: A Woman of Substance
Irma Grese & Ilse Koch: Devil's Disciples
Joan of Arc: Maid of Orleans
Josephine: Bonaparte's Muse
Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Day Queen
Livia: First Empress of Rome
Lizzie Borden: Axe Murderer?
Lizzie Siddal: An Artist's Obsession
Locusta: The Poisoner of Rome
Louise Michel: Heroine of the Commune
Lucrezia Borgia: Lust, Jealousy, Poison and Murder
Lydia Litvyak: White Rose of Stalingrad
Madame Caillaux: A Crime of Passion
Madame Roland: O Liberty!
Magda Goebbels: First Lady of the Reich
Marie Antoinette: The Austrian Whore
Mary Shelley: The Night She Wrote Frankenstein
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Mata Hari: Femme Fatale
Mother Clap's Molly House
Olympias: Mother of Alexander
Pendle Witches
Queen Eleanor's Cross
Queen Elizabeth I: Tilbury Address
Last Days of Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Henrietta Maria
Queen Isabella II: The She Wolf of France
Queen Victoria's Coronation: A Botched Affair
Red Rosa Luxemburg
Rose O'Neal Greenhow: Confederate Spy
Ruth Ellis: Last Woman Hanged in Britain
Sir Peter Lely and the Windsor Beauties
Sophie Scholl: Guillotined by the Nazis
The Bronte Family
The Martyrdom of Nurse Edith Cavell
The Mistresses of Charles II
The Mitford Sisters
The Rani of Jhansi
The Suffragettes: Votes for Women
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
Victoria and Albert: A Royal Coupling
Victoria becomes Queen
Women of the S.O.E
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