After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking history’s spookiest, strangest, and most sinister stories.Join historians Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling, every Monday and Thursday to take a look at the darker side o...
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The Dark Truth About Madam Tussauds
Behind the current display of celebrity waxworks lies the dark and bloody history of Madam Tussauds.
Join Anthony and Maddy as they go back to t...
Who Was The Ultimate Tudor Traitor?
The Tudor court was dangerous and high stakes at the best of times, where survival could often mean betraying others.
Enter: Jane Boleyn, thrust...
The Railway Murder That Shook Victorian Britain
It's 1864 and the height of industrialisation. The thrill of railway travel is shattered with the first murder that takes place on it.
Join Anth...
The Dark Reality of Life at Sea
Dan Snow joins After Dark to reveal the brutal reality of life of sailors during the golden age of sail. From the cat o' nine tails, to the pressgang,...
Dark Side of Elizabeth I
The end of Elizabeth I's life was shrouded in darkness and plots as powerful figures circled her throne. How did Elizabeth hold off contenders reachin...
Who Was Ancient Egypt's Most Evil Pharaoh?
We often think of Egyptian Pharaohs as a glamorous god-king of Ancient times, yet the truth of these people is a lot, lot darker.
Who was the fi...
Who Was Ancient Rome's Darkest Emperor?
There are a disturbingly high number of contenders for the title of Rome's Darkest Emperor - so as you can imagine, things get extremely disturbing in...
Day In The Life Of A Body Snatcher
Join Anthony and Maddy as they spend a day - or should that be night? - in the life of a 19th century body snatcher.
Find out which months they...
Georgian England's Notorious Dumpling Poisoner
Did she do it? Did serving girl Eliza Fenning poison the dumplings she served the Turner family? This is a true crime case from 1813 that brings toget...
Dark Truth About Ancient Egypt's Mummification
The Ancient Egyptians had a very different idea about death than most people do today.
And the idea of mummification is (excuse the pun) wrapped...
Who was the 'Man-Monster' Of New York?
On June 16, 1836, in New York City, Mary Jones stood in a courtroom that was a cauldron of hatred. Mary was African American and one of the first know...
BONUS: Hear a chapter of Anthony's new book, Queer Georgians
Hear a chapter of Anthony's new book, Queer Georgians: A hidden history of lovers, lawbreakers and homemakers. It's out now!
For more informatio...
Dark Side of Ancient Rome's Colosseum
In today's episode, we're taking you inside the towering walls of Ancient Rome's Colosseum to find out the dark reality of what happened there.
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Gay Sex Scandal that Outraged the Georgians
What price might a man pay for sex in the 18th century? Well, if it was with another man, he might pay with his life.
In this episode, Anthony i...
Jack the Ripper: Invention of a Monster
Jack the Ripper as we think of him, is an invention of the Victorian media. They took the complete absence of hard facts about the killer, and populat...
The Dark Side of Medieval England
This episode contains descriptions of execution and torture.
To be Hanged, Drawn & Quartered. Put on the Rack. Impaled on a spike. This list pai...
The Darkest Scandal in Victorian Britain
Today we step into the shadowy world of W.T. Stead—a Victorian journalist whose life was as controversial as it was groundbreaking.
Hear how he...
New York's Wildest Murder Case
This 1897 New York murder case that has it all - a villain, an incredibly useless police force, and a duck who saves the day. The incredible Dr Cat By...
Victorian Love Triangle Murder
Through the industrial fog of Victorian London, in one of the city's most notorious slums, a murder took place that shocked a nation.
The Bermon...
The Body In The Trunk: France's Shocking 19th Century Murder Case
It was a murder mystery that gripped 19th century France and changed crime investigation forever.
Who was the body in the trunk? What were the g...
Bloodiest Mutiny & Shipwreck in History: Batavia
What happens when you're left on a desert island with a psychopath? This is a story so horrendous it would be hard to believe were it not for the skel...
Britain’s Most Prolific Executioner
For Albert Pierrepoint, execution was a family affair. His father and uncle were hangmen and from the 1940s until the late 1950s Albert was Britain's...
Could You Survive The Victorian Workhouse?
Today we’re going behind the foreboding doors of the Victorian workhouse to ask - ‘Could we survive it?’. From Oliver Twist's gruel to songs about flo...
Day In The Life Of A Plague Doctor
If you think your job is bad, have you tried being a plague doctor in 17th century Venice?
Join Anthony and Maddy as they wake up on a quarantin...
Final Days of Napoleon
Conspiracy theories swirl about the final days of Napoleon. Was he poisoned by a friend? By the British? By his wallpaper? Did he cologne himself to d...
The Great Plague of London
What was it like living in London, 1665, when the plague first crept in?
Within weeks, the gruesome symptoms were being spotted around London, c...
Dark History of the Luddites
Would you have joined the OG Luddites? In 1811 and 1812 across the midlands and north of England which were the Silicon Valley of the day, Luddites sm...
The Plague That Shook The Roman Empire
In the 6th century, the Roman Empire was split and its future hung in the balance.
Emperor Justinian dreamed of restoring it to its former glory...
The Truth About Frankenstein
Against a time of radical change, a gothic masterpiece was written by the teenage Mary Shelley.
Published in 1818, Frankenstein takes us into a...
How Bloody Was 'Bloody Mary'?
Last week we heard about Mary's formative years. Today we get to her reign, the infamous burnings and ask ourselves if Bloody Mary was as bad as peopl...
The Final Days of Anastasia Romanov
In the aftermath of the bloody Russian revolution, the Romanovs went from being a glittering royal family, to vulnerable everyday citizens who were so...
Bloody Mary: The Real Woman in the Mirror
Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary. Mary I is known as a brutal tyrant. But what was the reality? In the next two episodes Anthony and Maddy will e...
Poison in the Tower of London
Today’s story is one that takes us to a very familiar setting - the Tower of London - but shows it in a new light. Edward Francis was an enslaved man...
Stonehenge: 10 Strangest Facts
It wasn't made by Druids (or Aliens or Merlin the wizard). But it was a garden centre. Get ready for the 10 strangest facts (mostly) about Stonehenge!...
Could You Survive Victorian Surgery?
You're laid out on the surgeon's table. Wide awake. He stands over you knife in hand and behind him, in the stands, is a noisy crowd all joking, smoki...
Murder at Stonehenge
A body is found at Stonehenge. It's the skeleton of a man - an archer - who lived at the time when it was built. How did he die? What secrets does his...
Dark Side of Ancient Mesopotamia
A four thousand(ish) year old murder trial. A procession of the dead. Kings who believed they could escape the gods by dressing gardeners in royal clo...
Final Days of Sir Walter Raleigh
'Strike, man, strike!' were the last words of Sir Walter Raleigh as his neck lay on the block. After thirteen years in the Tower of London, (multiple)...
Inside the Paris Catacombs
Beneath the streets of the French capitol lurks a city of the dead: the Paris Catacombs.
Why they were piled up there is a dark and fascinating...
Victorian England's Most Gruesome Murder
It was one of the most gruesome crimes of the Victorian era... and it ended up in David Attenborough's garden! Kate Webster, a servant, killed and dis...