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.

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...

Developer Firaxis has revealed that the next nation to be added to the Civilization VI roster is *fanfare*...

Christopher Nolan’s latest Blockbuster has finally, finally hit UK cinemas and it was worth the...

*Post contains details of the introductory sequence of Transformers: The Last Knight* (more…)

While we know her as the ‘Nine Day Queen’, Lady Jane Grey would probably have passed into...