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How A Vengeful Queen Almost Destroyed The Roman Empire
The history of the Roman Empire is written in blood and conquest, but few chapters are as intense or shocking as the Celtic uprising led by Queen Bou…
13 hours ago
Demise By Wallpaper: The Concealed Killers In The Victorian Home | Hidden Killers | Absolute History
Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home: In a genuine horror story, Suzannah Lipscomb reveals the lethal products, gadgets and conveniences that lurked …
14 hours ago
Scotland Yard Files: Investigating The 1952 Ash Vale Railway Murder
This is the grizzly true crime story of James Olcott. After being pardoned for a murder in Germany, Olcott found work on the railways. He returned to…
14 hours ago
The Sherlock Holmes Influence| Absolute History
With continuing releases of major films and TV series on Sherlock Holmes, the fictional character has never been more popular. But what about his cre…
15 hours ago
Queen Victoria: A Most Prolific Diarist| Absolute History
Biographer A.N. Wilson uncovers the intriguing personal life of Queen Victoria through her journals and letters in this psychological portrait of Bri…
15 hours ago
The Backbreaking Daily Labor Of Housework Before Modern Technology
In 1950, the average British woman spent her life in a kitchen virtually unchanged from her grandmother's era—hauling coal, scrubbing laundry by hand…
16 hours ago
What Kind Of Queen Will Kate Middleton Be?
From a "shy" university student to the most influential woman in the House of Windsor, Catherine, Princess of Wales, has redefined what it means to b…
16 hours ago
Inside The Hidden History Of Britain's Best-Preserved Noble Estates
Join American-born Viscountess Julie Montagu on an exclusive journey into the British countryside to tour the magnificent, historic gardens of Britai…
17 hours ago
Why Was James I's Reign So Dangerous? | Stuarts: James I | Absolute History
Prof Kate Williams studies the legacy of the Stuarts through the eyes of an aristocratic Welsh clan. After Elizabeth I's death in 1603, James VI of S…
17 hours ago
How Does A 1950's House Compare To A Modern Home?
The 1950s: a decade that took Britain from the drab, smoke-stained austerity of the post-war years to a "technical wonderland" of color and convenien…
18 hours ago