Times were tough before the outbreak of the First World War. With increasing tensions brewing between Germany and France, any distraction was used in order to o...
Success and wealth mean nothing if you don’t have the people to back you up. Gaining enemies was once a quick way to lose your title, or worse when it came to h...
Winston Churchill is one of the most famous figures in British history. Leading the country through the Second World War, the then-Prime Minister was responsibl...
The Siege of Yorktown unofficially marked the end of the Revolutionary War, though a treaty between Britain and America was not signed until later. When the tre...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt lived a troubled life growing up in Tilsit, Prussia. By the age of 14, he already had been sentenced to 14 days in...
Born Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette in 1757, the Marquis de Lafayette would later become a major figure in both the American and Fre...
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We all learn about England's most beloved playwright, William Shakespeare in school, but when people think of Shakespeare's theater, they usu...
"We have a snapshot here, captured in time, with the objects as they were placed around this guy. We can look at this not from an outside perspective, but from ...
Byron as depicted in a BBC Documentary about Byron and the Shelleys, Frankenstein and the Vampyre .Last time on History's Nutcases, we met the peculiar Sir Geo...
