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.

Mummies have fascinated popular imagination since the days of their earliest discoveries. Fictionalised...

For the weeks following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain was on show. There followed two weeks...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8th September 2022 has prompted numerous changes among the Royal Family,...

Queen Elizabeth II, like her predecessor, did not pass her childhood in any certain expectation of the...

In 79CE, Mount Vesuvius, a volcano along the Bay of Naples, erupted catastrophically burying nearby towns...

In June 1941 five of Queen Elizabeth II’s cousins, Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, and Idonea,...

The balcony of Buckingham Palace has been the focal point of royal appearances for a hundred and seventy...

1992 saw the Elizabeth II, Queen of England’s Ruby Jubilee, a celebration of forty years on the...

The sexuality of King James VI of Scotland & I of England has been long debated by historians. He...