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The Billion-Dollar Party That Ended a 2500-Year-Old Monarchy

How the biggest and most expensive party in modern history cost the Shah of Iran his crown

11 min readFeb 8, 2022

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Royal Exiles in Britain

How Britain became a safe haven, or prison, for deposed monarchs and those ruling in exile

12 min readOct 21, 2021

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Royal Exiles in Britain

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The Horrific and Bloody Deaths of the Archbishops of Canterbury

Butchered by Vikings, burned at the stake, or beheaded by peasants… some archbishops had very unfortunate endings

12 min readOct 6, 2021

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The Horrific and Bloody Deaths of the Archbishops of Canterbury

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Pope John XII: The Youngest and Worst Pope in History

The eighteen-year-old pope whose drinking, gambling, incest, and murders marked the lowest point in two thousand years of the papacy

9 min readJun 23, 2021

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Pope John XII: The Youngest and Worst Pope in History

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Ten Steps to Becoming a Saint

A quick and easy guide on how to get your halo

11 min readJun 7, 2021

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Ten Steps to Becoming a Saint

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Jitendra and Indira: India’s Royal Runaway Couple

The story of India’s real Romeo and Juliet, who married for love against all the odds

9 min readMay 21, 2021

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Jitendra and Indira: India’s Royal Runaway Couple

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Bertha Benz- The woman who taught the world how to drive

Everyone knows that Karl Benz invented the car, but it was his wife Bertha that showed him and the World how to use it

7 min readApr 25, 2021

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Bertha Benz- The woman who taught the world how to drive

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The Strange and Disturbing History of Defenestration

The act of throwing someone through a window

13 min readApr 10, 2021

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The Strange and Disturbing History of Defenestration

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Top 9 Strangest Pets and Owners in History

A raccoon in the President’s bath? A cheetah riding in a Rolls-Royce? History has seen some strange pets and some even stranger owners…

15 min readJan 31, 2021

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Top 9 Strangest Pets and Owners in History

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Queen Victoria’s Coronation Disaster

President Joe Biden’s inauguration as president this week went off without a hitch. But the same cannot be said for the ‘botched’…

7 min readJan 21, 2021

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Queen Victoria’s Coronation Disaster

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Josh West MA

Josh West MA

Historian with MA in Modern History/ Imperial — LGBTQ+ — Tudor History/ specialises in telling the forgotten stories and strange tales of history

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