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.

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...

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...