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 Golden Age of Piracy was an entirely male dominated affair for a number of reasons. On the most practical...

To Mrs Arabella Hunt Dear Madam –Not believe that I love you? You cannot pretend to be so incredulous....

I love The Tudors, I probably shouldn’t, but I really do. The history is so ridiculous and mashed together...

I have a lot of time to catch up on films and television series at the moment, so there’s that at least....

Part of Anne Boleyn’s mystery is that we have so little evidence directly relating to Anne from which...

The Mistresses of Henry VIII (2009) The Mistresses of Henry VIII attests that while the lives and personalities...

The position of royal mistress, even a recognised maîtresse en titre was fraught with difficulties. The...

‘The Merry Monarch’ was very merry indeed. Known for his love of partying and women Charles II...

I use Grammarly’s plagiarism checker because I wouldn’t last in plagiarism prison Why don’t...