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.

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

Content Warning: As the title suggests, here be discussion of historical rape and pregnancy loss. The...

Content warning: This post considers issues of sexual assault and child sexual assault. In 1536, Henry...

The early 1800s saw a massive global endeavour to circumnavigate the world. Naval technology was improving...

If you think of a shipwreck, it’ll likely be the most famous shipwreck in the world; the RMS Titanic....

The coronation of King Charles III approacheth. The event is being hailed as a once-in-a-lifetime event...

You are about to come with me on a journey into a wild rabbit hole. It started while perusing the list...

The Wonder (2022) is a period drama set in Ireland, 1862 in a community recovering from the Great Famine....

On April 18th 1912, the RMS Carpathia arrived in New York City to disembark seven hundred passengers....