Who says history is boring? Discover the scandals, the gossip, the rebels, and the rule breakers...
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Gladiator II turned Caracalla and Geta into cartoonish villains but the reality was far bloodier. The brothers were given an empire to share but turned it into their own personal battleground, before their lives ended in bloodshed, delusion and paranoia
Ridley Scott's Gladiator gave us a version of Commodus obsessed with the arena and his own sister, but the life of the real emperor was much more unhinged
A countess by marriage and a rebel by choice, Constance Markievicz shocked polite society by becoming one of Ireland's fiercest revolutionaries - and Britain's first female MP
Maud Gonne devoted her life to Irish nationalism but that was only one part of a story filled with obsession and scandal. Think diva behaviour, political violence, and graveyard sex.
Ireland's Easter Rising of 1916 was seemingly doomed from the start. But what began as a failed insurrection became the spark that reshaped modern Ireland
Fortunes, hype, and outright delusion collide in the story of the South Sea Company, where promises of limitless wealth drew in investors from every corner of society. But the gap between appearance and truth became impossible to ignore, ending in a dramatic collapse that revealed just how easily ambition and speculation can tip into chaos
Long before drag hit the mainstream, a formerly enslaved man in Washington D.C. started a movement which would echo through generations, despite being relentlessly targeted by the authorities
In the violent world of the Franks, Brunhild and Fredegund turned a dynastic rivalry into one of the bloodiest personal feuds in European history
Pearl de Vere and Eleanor Dumont monetised naughtiness and made a fortune in the American West but life was precarious and fate was fickle during the dying days of the gold rush
Three women in the Wild West broke the rules assigned to them. Belle Starr, Pearl Hart and Laura Bullion carved out lives marked by crime and notoriety, stagecoach heists and courtroom drama.
