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 Numerburg Trials and Beyond - Part Two
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Christopher Marlowe, A Murder in Deptford
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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They Died for Applause, Inside the Life of a Gladiator
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Hermann Göring - The Numerburg Trials - Part One
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Regan - Let's Make America Great Again
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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The British Raj Shattered - Five Partitions - Borders Redrawn in Blood and Dust
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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The 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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Admiral Horatio Nelson – The Man Who Loved Emma - 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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When the Future Was Beautiful: The Art Deco Story
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Spain on Fire: The Spanish Civil War
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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
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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 - Leopolds 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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Vietnam: The Unwinnable War
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Jul 03, 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: Mother of Monsters
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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The Mitfords Revisited: Saints, Sinners, and Scandal
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Jun 19, 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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Wit as Weapon: 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 – Part Two: When the World Was Young
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Tolkien – Part One: When the World Was Young
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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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Kipling’s Shadow: The Dark Wisdom of 'If—' and 'The Two-Sided Man
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Dec 04, 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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Rosetta: 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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Freemasons: Cloaks, Daggers, and Awkward Handshakes
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Aug 24, 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: Where Heaven Meets Earth
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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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The Ninth: Legion of the Vanished
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Jun 30, 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 - The Woman Who Flew Into a Legend
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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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H. Rider Haggard
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Feb 12, 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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The Mitford Sisters - A Frivolity of Evil
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Shakespeare - Pure Genius
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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The Bible - That Little Book
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Sep 28, 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 |