The Archives

History, Historical Fiction and everything in between

Here be all the posts since the blog’s inception in 2013. There’s a few of them but you can navigate by period.

The most frequently asked question of 2017 (on this blog at least, I missed it at Prime Minister’s...

Firaxis has announced Korea will feature as a civilisation in the Civ VI expansion: Rise and Fall (due...

The final installment of Women of the Three Kingdoms. Or at least, the final installment until Koei announces...

Halloween! One year I will write up the history of Halloween and where we get our notions of the devil...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester is famously known as the favourite of Elizabeth I. His reputation in...

My little one has been sick this week, which has seen me sat underneath her, getting sucked into the...

And so we continue the exploration of the stylised women in Dynasty Warriors, based on the romanticised...

The Royal Family have announced that the Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant with her third child. As with...

[Insert flashback music here] I was eleven years old when I first saw Dynasty Warriors. It was the last...