Stephen Rashbrook

Shaw used the traditional fable of Andocles to focus on the integrity of religious belief. Androcles, a christian fleeing persecution in Rome, is...

In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and...

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

Tarawa was the most strongly defended island in the Pacific which the Japanese boasted that a million Americans couldn’t take the island in one...

In August 1942 US Marines storm ashore on the Japanese-held island of Guadalcanal. The six-month campaign that follows is brutal and becomes etched...

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working...

They were created to be the world s largest, grandest and safest ocean liners. Each were launched and sold as ships that would never sink, but...

BBC revisits the infamous OJ Simpson murder trial, the crime, presenting a small chronicle of the events surrounding the mysterious murder of his...

In 1914, the suffragette Mary Richardson attacked the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery in London. But why did this painting fire such outrage?...

About the cult "The Order of the Solar Temple"