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.

I had planned to review OWEN on its own. Indeed, I get so little time to read these days I set aside...

The problem with the Tudors is that they’re all too interesting for their own good. The colourful...

It’s not often I get to do this, but I am very excited to present a guest post! Author of The Tudor...

If you’re here looking for the answer to that question: no. No, he didn’t. We don’t...

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...