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.

CW: This article discusses rape. In the words of Adelaide Kane: Tonight’s episode deals with a...

The mystery of the princes in the tower is one of the most enduring in British history. In 1483 Edward...

For Elizabeth I, the insult that she might not be chaste lasted until the very latest years of her reign....

When considering the question of Elizabeth I’s virginity, one name comes to mind immediately and before...

And albeit it might please almighty God to continue me still in this mind to live out of the state of...

At the risk of making myself immensely unpopular, I finally watched Reign and I enjoyed it. There, I...

This blog exists, in part, due to David Starkey. Young me was studying at a time when Starkey was considered...

Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl written in 2001 arguably turned an entire generation onto...

The second act of Fallout 4, one of Bethesda’s most popular RPGs, is heralded by the arrival of...