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.

Babe wake up, new Starz drama just dropped. That’s right today (at time of writing) the much anticipated...

New historical drama alert! Early March will see the mini-series Mary and George find our screens and...

Anyone who spends more than five minutes on this blog will see that I’m really interested in ghosts....

Season 4 of the notoriously innacurate but eminently watchable The Tudors ends with the breakdown of...

And lo, we come to the third and final sister in our exploration of the extremely unhappy marriages of...

Many moons ago, in the long-distant days of 2004, historian John Guy published My Heart is My Own: The...

Recently, I wrote about Lady Jane Grey and her extremely unhappy marriage to a man she despised. By contrast,...

Spoiler Alert: This article contains plot details and analysis for the Netflix miniseries The Fall of...

Lady Jane Grey is most well known for her nine-day stint as queen – the shortest reign of any British...