Get ready for carriages pulled by headless horses, spooky palaces, a weird floating cylinder thing...and a single moment in history that has haunted England, and now Britain's, imagination for hundreds of years.
In this episode of After Dark, Anthony and Maddy talk the ghost of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England before Henry VIII chopped off her head, with the marvellous Tracy Borman.
Tracy's new book "Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History" is out now.
Up Next in Season 1
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The Children of Calais: Clare Mulley ...
A new statue has just been unveiled in Saffron Walden, an unassuming town in Essex, England. Five children are held, with limbs outstretched or shoulders hunched, in life-size bronze. One carries a tattered lifejacket, which hangs uselessly below him. The statue, titled Unaccompanied Children of ...
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Powerhouse: The Rise of the Machines
For nearly two hundred years, the north led the way in developing new technologies and industries that would completely re-shape societies, economies and the world order.
Presented by northern writer Daniel Gray, Powerhouse; Industrial Revolution in the North tells the story of the birth of the ...
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Guy Fawkes: The Yorkshireman Behind t...
Tensions were high in England in late October 1605, when a Catholic English nobleman, Lord Monteagle, received a mysterious letter telling him to avoid the opening of Parliament in a few days time. The letter would come to foil the plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill the Protestant ...
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