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 White Queen. Showing Sundays at 9pm on BBC1 Having settled down for the evening with some toffee...

I have studied history for years and throughout it all, until very recently, you will find religion underlying...

A 19th century image of Henry reconciled with Anne Boleyn Pssst, I’m going to let you in on a secret....

Assumedly the time traveling teenager is not the ‘true story’ upon which this film is based. Showing...

Sometimes when researching history, you come across someone who is entirely unimportant in the grand...

Sometimes when researching history, we find someone whose story makes us sit back and think, ‘gosh! ...

James Cameron’s Titanic is regarded as one of the most successful films of all time. Titanic is...

Anne Boleyn as she would have appeared to Henry VIII during their early courtship. Recently, I watched...

The Tudor Wife by Emily Purdy as it was released in the UK, has been released under a couple of other...