The fiery curtain call: The Theatre Royal Drury Lane fire of 1809.
"May a man not be allowed to drink a glass of wine by his own fireside?"
Sean Munger
The strangest movie I have ever seen: “The Osterman Weekend” and the story behind it.
Crossbow arrows, a nude John Hurt and a script possibly written on hallucinogens. What's not to like?
Interiors: Biblioteca Palafoxiana, ancient library in Ciudad de Puebla, Mexico.
This beautiful library room represents one of the great intellectual repositories of Colonial Mexico.
Behind the Scenes: 1981, Britain’s Awful Year.
One tragic year in the life of the UK is the subject of my newest deep dive historical video.
The day the sky turned red: The Melbourne Dust Storm of 1983.
For two terrifying hours, a mammoth wall of dust turned one of Australia's largest cities into a vision of Hell.
Historic Photo: Native American ice-cutting crew in winter, 1880s.
If you wanted ice cream in the Victorian era, you had people like this to thank for it.
My journey with “The Martian Chronicles”: a terrible but nostalgic bit of TV science fiction.
This terrible 1980 show at least gets one thing right: humanity doesn't deserve another planet to screw up like we have this one.