Rearview Mirror Chronicles
By Keith Hockton
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Keith Hockton, FRAS, is a writer, publisher, and award-winning podcaster based in Penang, Malaysia, with a deep passion for uncovering the stories that shaped our world. As the Southeast Asia Editor for International Living magazine, Keith explores the intersections of history, culture, and modern life across the region.
A dynamic lecturer and storyteller, he speaks internationally on Southeast Asian politics, economics, and history—bringing the past to life with clarity, wit, and insight. Keith is also a proud Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is on a mission to make history not only accessible but genuinely entertaining for everyone.
His published books include:
• Atlas of Australian Dive Sites - Travellers Edition (Harper Collins Australia, 2003).
• Penang - An inside guide to its historic homes, buildings, monuments and parks (MPH Publishing, 2012; 2nd Edition 2014; 3rd Edition 2017).
• Festivals of Malaysia (Trafalgar Publishing, 2015).
• The Habitat Penang Hill: A pocket history (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Alana and the Secret Life of Trees at Night (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Penang Then & Now: A Century of Change in Pictures (Entrepot Publishing, 2019; 2nd Edition 2021
• Bersama Lima - Five Together (Entrepot Publishing, 2022)
www.entrepotpublishing.com
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The Last Letters of Marie Antoinette
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May 15, 2026 |
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Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? The Lost Christianities
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May 09, 2026 |
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The Ninth: A Legion Erased
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May 04, 2026 |
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Marks That Outlive Us - Tattoos and the Stories We Carry
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May 02, 2026 |
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Vietnam, The War That Broke America
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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The Emergency: Fear, Fire, and the Making of Modern Malaya
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Secrets of the Freemasons
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Masterpieces and Mysteries - The Ambassadors (Part Three)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Masterpieces and Mysteries - The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part Two)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Masterpieces and Mysteries - The Arnolfini Portrait: A Marriage or a Mystery (Part One)
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Harald Hardrada - Viking, Mercenary, King (Part Two)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Harald Hardrada - Viking, Mercenary, King (Part One)
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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The Bible - The Book That Changed the World… and Nearly Tore It Apart
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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The Birmingham Gang
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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The Mitfords Revisited: Saints, Sinners, and Scandal
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Æthelstan - The First King of England
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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The Mitford Sisters - A Frivolity of Evil
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Kipling’s Shadow: The Dark Wisdom of 'If'
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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How Christianity Conquered Rome
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Konfrontasi - Malaysia's Secret War
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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The Trial and Execution of Charles I
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Football in No Man’s Land: Christmas 1914
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Greenwich - The Home of Time
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Mysterious Manuscripts
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Jane Austen - Her Final Days
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Hatshepsut
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Rome’s Final Victory (Part Four)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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The Rise of Boudicca (Part Three)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Rome Invades Britain Again, with Elephants (Part Two)
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Rome Invades Britain (Part One)
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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The Nuremberg Trials and Beyond (Part Two)
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Christopher Marlowe - Murdered in London
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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They Died for Applause - The Life of a Gladiator
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Hermann Göring - The Nuremberg Trials (Part One)
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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President Regan - Let's Make America Great Again
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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The British Raj in India Shattered
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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The 1720 South Sea Bubble – The Madness of Men
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Lady Emma Hamilton – Love, Loss, and Legend (Part Three)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Nelson – The Man Who Loved Lady Hamilton (Part Two)
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Lady Emma Hamilton - The Woman Who Loved Nelson (Part One)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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The Darker Side of Samuel Pepys
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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The Art Deco Story - When the Future Was Beautiful
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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The Spanish Civil War - Spain on Fire
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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The Magna Carta: A Promise That Endured
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Victoria's Secret Lover
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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The Colosseum: Power, Glory, and Death
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Edinburgh Castle: Scotland’s Dark Heart
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Notre Dame: The Soul of Paris
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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The Congo - Leopold's Downfall (Part Three)
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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The Congo - A Society of Murderers (Part Two)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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The Congo - The Nightmare Begins (Part One)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Bond - James Bond, and his Watches
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury - The Bone Merchant
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Diana Unfiltered: Beyond the Fairy Tale
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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The Golden Age of Japan - The Pillow Book
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The Golden Age of Japan - The Tale of Genji
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Kew: The Garden That Changed the World
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Master of Shadows: The Ruthless World of Robert Cecil
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Canadian Beaver Wars: Blood on the Snow
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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The Brontë Sisters
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Canada - The 51st State?
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May 29, 2025 |
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La Belle Époque
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May 24, 2025 |
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Jane Austen’s Disarming Charm
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May 21, 2025 |
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The Mau Mau - Empire of Blood (Part Two)
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May 16, 2025 |
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The Mau Mau - Empire of Blood (Part One)
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May 15, 2025 |
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Bloomsbury’s Broken Light - Virginia Woolf
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May 10, 2025 |
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The Colour That Haunted History
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May 03, 2025 |
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Mallory and Irvine - Ghosts on Everest
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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John F. Kennedy: The Man Who Dared to Dream
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Nicholas Flamel: The Immortal Alchemist
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Thrones of Blood: Rome’s Darkest Emperors
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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The Lord Lucan File: Blood, Shadows, and Silence
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Three Scots in Africa - Slave, Slaver, Abolitionist
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Tolkien – When the World Was Young (Part Two)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Tolkien – When the World Was Young (Part One)
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Malta - The Greatest Siege in History
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Nostradamus: The Prophet of Shadows
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Banking Collapses: When Empires Eat Themselves
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Greenland: Strategic, Silent, Surging
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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The Madman’s Library: Bound in Flesh, Written in Blood
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Panama Canal: A Corridor of Corpses
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Greatness Demands Blood
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Alexander: The Shadow Before the Storm (Part Two)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Alexander: The Shadow Before the Storm (Part One)
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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The Great Fire of London - The Ashes of 1666
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Christmas: A Spell Cast in Time
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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The Colosseum: Theatre of Human Ruin
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Persia: The First Superpower
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Sliding Doors of History
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Sea Wolf Rising (Part Three)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Sea Wolf Rising (Part Two)
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Sea Wolf Rising (Part One)
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Pompeii: Where the Living Turned to Stone
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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The Rosetta Stone - Cipher of the Dead
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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The Crown’s Forgotten Ghost
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Rubicon: The Death of the Republic (Part Two)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Rubicon: The Death of the Republic (Part One)
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Echoes in the Silence: Poetry for When the World Feels Heavy
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Bloomsbury: Art, Obsession, and Ruin
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Napoleon - The Greatest Art Thief of All Time
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Robin Hood - The Wolf of Sherwood
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Black Lei: The Death of the Hawaiian Kingdom
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Nelson’s Last Command: Blood and Glory at Trafalgar
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Agatha Christie - The Missing Eleven Days
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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The Kaaba - That Mysterious Cube in Mecca
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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George Orwell - 1984 Wasn’t Fiction!
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Letters of Note - Letters that Changed the World
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Amelia Earhart: Where the Sky Went Silent
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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The Book Forger
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Rudyard Kipling - The Voice of Empire & The Jungle Book
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Silk and Scars: The Untold Darkness of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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The Scottish Wars of Independence (Part Three)
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May 30, 2024 |
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The Scottish Wars of Independence (Part Two)
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May 26, 2024 |
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The Scottish Wars of Independence (Part One)
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May 23, 2024 |
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Barricades, Beatings, and Blood - Part Two
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May 22, 2024 |
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The Campbell's and the MacDonald's - The Massacre of Glencoe
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May 19, 2024 |
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Plagues and Pandemics - Does History Repeat Itself?
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May 16, 2024 |
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DreamReads: Dracula (First Published in 1887)
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May 08, 2024 |
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Napoleon - The Battle of Waterloo
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May 06, 2024 |
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Raiders of The Lost Ark - Where is The Ark of The Covenant?
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May 05, 2024 |
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DreamReads: The Picture of Dorian Gray (First Published in 1890)
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Barricades, Beatings, and Blood - Part One
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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DreamReads: A Conspriacy of Paper (First Published in 2000)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Lawrence of Arabia (T.E Lawrence) - Dreams in Sand and Blood
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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The East India Company (Part Three)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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The East India Company (Part Two)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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The East India Company (Part One)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Is Trump Caesar or Nixon?
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Le Marquis de Sade - Philosopher of Pleasure
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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The Furies - Goddesses of Vengeance
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Pythagoras - The Hypotenuse Whisperer
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Haggis - Scotland's Mouth Watering National Dish
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Alexander's Lost Library
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The Clans of Scotland
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Sir John Soane - Master of Light and Magic
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Oscar Wild - Part Two
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Oscar Wilde - Part One
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Capability Brown - Visionary or Vandal?
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Sir Christopher Wren - Polymath Extraordinaire
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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The Beatles and The Reformation of 1520
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The First World War - The Crazy Causes
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Shakespeare - Pure Genius
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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The Taj Mahal
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Men in Kilts - A Short History of Kilts and Tartens
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The French Foreign Legion - The Expendables
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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A History of Scotland
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Cecil Rhodes - The Devil in Diamonds
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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The Inquisition - Murder And Torture In The Name of God
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Aug 15, 2023 |