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Here Come The Minstrels
Episode 1058
Blackface performers The Virginia Minstrels - replete with white clown mouths, oversized tailcoats, and bookended by tambourine and bones players - f…
1 year, 5 months ago
Too Mad To Rule: King George III
Episode 1057
George III’s mental incapacitation was formally recognised by Parliament on February 5th, 1811, when The Regency Act handed power to his son, the fut…
1 year, 5 months ago
Meet The Sims
Episode 1056
The debut of ‘The Sims’ happened on this day, February 4th, 2000.
Will Wright (‘Sim City’) developed an initial concept which revolved around architec…
1 year, 6 months ago
Who Killed Belle Starr?
Episode 1055
The women of the Wild West mostly spent their lives laundering men’s clothes, bringing up children, and avoiding getting caught in the crossfire - bu…
1 year, 6 months ago
Chimps In Space!
Episode 1053
Before Yuri Gagarin, before Alan Shepard… a chimp called Ham was blasted into space for six-and-a-half minutes of weightlessness on 31st January, 196…
1 year, 6 months ago
Hannah Hauxwell: Britain's First Reality Star
Episode 1052
Running a remote Yorkshire farm, with no flushing toilet and no electricity is an unlikely route to TV stardom, but 46 year-old spinster Hannah Hauxw…
1 year, 6 months ago
The First Burns Supper
Episode 1051
When fans of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, suggested holding an annual dinner to mark his birthday, they probably didn’t realise a) it woul…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Search For Pancho Villa
Episode 1050
General John J. Pershing’s mission to capture the guerrilla leader Pancho Villa in Mexico was quietly withdrawn on 28th January, 1917
Initiated in res…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Ancients v The Moderns
Episode 1049
Modern art was controversially celebrated on 27th January, 1687, when Charles Perrault read his poem ‘The Century of Louis The Great’ at the Académie…
1 year, 6 months ago
Henry VIII's Head Injury
Episode 1047
Henry VIII is typically remembered as he was at the end of his life - weighing in at a colossal 28 stone, with ulcerated legs, failing eyesight and a…
1 year, 6 months ago