In 2003 he made a TV documentary titled The Strangest Viking (part of Channel 4's Secret History series), in which Shaban explored the possibility that Viking chieftain Ivar the Boneless may have had osteogenesis imperfecta, the same condition he himself has.
Ivar Jacobson | Sir Ivar Colquhoun, 8th Baronet | Ole Ivar Lovaas | Ivar the Boneless | Ivar's | Ivar Kreuger | Ivar Kleiven | Paul Ivar Paulsen | Ivar Sahlin | Ivar Mortensson-Egnund | Ívar Ingimarsson | Ivar Hippe | Ivar Grydeland | Ivar Enger | Ivar Arosenius | Ivar Aronsson | Ivar Antonsen | Fourth of Jul-Ivar's |
The Battle of Marton or Meretum took place on 22 March 871 at a place recorded as Marton, perhaps in Wiltshire or Dorset, after Æthelred of Wessex, forced (along with his brother Alfred) into flight following their costly victory against an army of Danish invaders at the Battle of Ashdown, had retreated to Basing (in Hampshire), where he was again defeated by the forces of Ivar the Boneless.