This is the story of Revolution House - the thatched building where the Glorious Revolution was actually planned. Not in Parliament. Not in some grand London townhouse. In a pub called The Cock and Pynot in Old Whittington, while the rain hammered down outside.
Join me at Postman's Park in the City of London as we explore the ceramic plaques commemorating pantomime artists who tried to extinguish burning friends, teenage boys who drowned rescuing strangers, and factory workers who ran back into explosions to save their mates. Brief, devastating epitaphs of extraordinary courage - and the question of why we stopped remembering them
Documentary about Scotland's wars & the Westminster Stone Mystery - did monks at Scone Abbey swap Scotland's sacred coronation stone for a fake before King Edward I could steal it in 1296?
Join me at Scone Abbey in Scotland, where we'll explore Moot Hill, discuss the Battle of Dunbar, walk through what remains of Scotland's "anti-capital," and discover why this unassuming piece of red sandstone carried more political power than armies or gold in Scottish history.
Join me at the former Bethel Hospital site in Norwich - the exact location where Committee House once stood. In a single catastrophic moment, forty buildings were destroyed, church windows shattered across the city, and up to two-hundred people died. The blast was heard for miles and the political fallout reached London within hours. This explosion happened because England was caught between exhaustion and inevitability - too tired for war and too divided for peace.
Maritime History Documentary on the RMS Olympic: What do you do when a German submarine surfaces right in front of your troopship carrying 4,000 American soldiers? Captain Bertram Hayes gave the order: Full speed ahead. Ram her. This is the maritime history of White Star Line's RMS Olympic - Titanic's sister ship that refused to sink, survived ramming a World War 1 U-boat, and became the only merchant vessel to deliberately sink an enemy warship in combat. Stand with me in her actual first-class lounge at the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick...
Join us as we explore the world of King John, King Louis, William de Longchamps and the wars that swirled around the Magna Carta. If Nicola had lost the Battle of Lincoln, England would probably have had a French monarchy. It may be the second-most important battle in English history.
After the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror controlled England through a combination of force and personality. When he died, there was a massive power struggle.
Saga Farmann is a knarr - a replica Viking cargo ship. Built in Tønsberg, ships like her were the transit vans - the pick-up trucks - of their age, carrying amber from the Baltic, walrus ivory from the Arctic, timber, dried fish and slaves for trade. Grab a coffee, sit back & relax as I tell you everything you didn’t know, you didn’t know, about the real ships that built the Viking Age.
This is the story of how England made Robert Frost a poet, and how the outbreak of World War I brought him home. The tale of a gamble that changed American literature.