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  1. S

    The Great Stink of 1858 (London)

    From the YouTube channel "Today I Found Out"https://youtu.be/uXm0IGQ5PZY.
  2. angrysoba

    Best movies about British history?

    What are the best movies on British history? These are movies that I may be able to recommend to university students taking a course on British culture as an elective subject. I understand that movies such as Braveheart and maybe The Patriot are very inaccurate, but I am looking for movies of...
  3. Hans

    Question on the Japanese consultate in London

    In WWII when was this closed and where did the Japanese staff go to? (if not to Japan)
  4. C

    Interesting information about the British monarchy

    It turns out that the current royal family is NOT in fact the rightful monarchy. Edward IV was illegitimate so every monarch from his time on was a false monarch. The rightful royal family is the Plantangents. The current rightful King of England (as of 2013) is a rice researcher in...
  5. catsmate

    Like Caesar marching to the East...

    GzKv5gjOzTA Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street (wiki) when a motley collection of socialists, trade unionists, communists, Irish dockers, Jewish shopkeepers and thousands ordinary people faced down and stopped a deliberately provocative march by Oswald Mosley...
  6. Magrat

    Holbein and the Princes in the Tower

    From AJ Pollard's Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: This was first advanced the year before I was born I guess, just heard of it recently. When I did a search online I found stuff basically either saying "buy the book" or "this guy is a nut burger". I'm wondering if anyone knows more...
  7. The Don

    Battle of Britain Commemorative Flypast

    Those of you who are in the right place to see it, they are assembling at Goodwood (and then flying on to London ?), are lucky. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34250794
  8. catsmate

    The Mystery of Mr. Williamson's tunnels.

    Joseph Williamson, the "Mad Mole of Edge Hill" was born in Yorkshire in 1769, the son of a glassmaker. He became a successful businessman in Liverpool in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, mainly in the field of tobacco products, and was quite wealthy. He was also rather...
  9. commandlinegamer

    RIP Mandy Rice-Davies

    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/19/mandy-rice-davies-profumo-model-dies I wasn't born at the time of The Profumo Affair but for a long time it seemed to be the scandal of the late-20th century UK politics. Take the Cold War out of the equation - if it happened now I couldn't see...
  10. A

    The Underground Secrets of Stonehenge

    A team has spent Four years examining the area around Stonehenge using a variety of techniques, and the results are surprising to say the least. Evidence has been found for seventeen previously unknown monuments in the area, as well as new structures related to previously known monuments...
  11. M

    Britain's Use Of Starvation As A Weapon

    The British government (aka Perfidious Albion) has a track record of using hunger against it's enemies. When Ireland was under British occupation 1 million were allowed to starve to death. www.wolfetonesofficialsite.com/famine.htm In 1918 Germany surrendered to Britain and the Allies. To force...

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