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It is 1793 and France has declared war on Britain, meaning that the British navy must serve as both

It’s 1758 and Britain’s greatest naval commander has just been born. The young Horatio Nelson has in

“Nixon now! Nixon now! More than ever we need Nixon now!”It's the 5th of November 1968, and Richard

The Democratic National Convention is in Chicago, and the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, ha

“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, w

“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred;

The peaceful figurehead of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King had i

"Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.”On the night of Sunday, 31st

“Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood water our fields!”Written after the declaration of war

The war between revolutionary France and the allied powers of Prussia and Austria has reached fever

During the "Ancien Regime", royal executioners held an unholy status, and would strike up fear in th

“You have shaken off the yoke of your despots, but surely this was not to bend the knee before a for

Welcome to Season 2 of The French RevolutionRevolutionary fervour threatens to engulf the streets of

In the aftermath of Boudicca’s uprising, the Romans felt they could not withdraw from the British Is

“Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island

Viewed as an idiot by those around him, Claudius felt the need to prove himself. In the century sinc

Julius Caesar saw the Britons as brutal savages. Yet the Romans romanticised their lack of civilisat

After lying in state in an open casket, Evita’s corpse is taken down to a secret laboratory in the b

The workaholic mother of a nation, Evita’s health deteriorates and she faints at a public event. A s

“There is only one man who can lead any worker’s regime.”Together, Eva and Colonel Perón built a pol