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The Archives

History, Historical Fiction and everything in between

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Here be all the posts since the blog’s inception in 2013. There’s a few of them but you can navigate by period.

Historical Periods

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Queer Culture, Stewards, and The Titanic's Glory-Holes
You are about to come with me on a journey into a wild rabbit hole. It started while perusing the list...
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The History Behind: The Wonder (2022)
The Wonder (2022) is a period drama set in Ireland, 1862 in a community recovering from the Great Famine....
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"Where Manhood Perished Not": The Surviving Men of the Titanic
On April 18th 1912, the RMS Carpathia arrived in New York City to disembark seven hundred passengers....
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Creepy History: The Curse of the Pharaohs (Tutankhamun Edition)
Mummies have fascinated popular imagination since the days of their earliest discoveries. Fictionalised...
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The Queen's Funeral: Breaking down Pomp and Circumstance
For the weeks following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain was on show. There followed two weeks...
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The History of the Prince of Wales; or, Why a Growing Number of Welsh people don't want one
The death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8th September 2022 has prompted numerous changes among the Royal Family,...
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The Queen is Dead, Long Live the King: What happens next?
Queen Elizabeth II, like her predecessor, did not pass her childhood in any certain expectation of the...
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The Eruption of Vesuvius: A Timeline
In 79CE, Mount Vesuvius, a volcano along the Bay of Naples, erupted catastrophically burying nearby towns...
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The Queen's Hidden Cousins
In June 1941 five of Queen Elizabeth II’s cousins, Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, and Idonea,...
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Hi! I'm Sarah, and I explore the real history behind historical fiction, forgotten lives, historical myths, and the details that might not make it into the textbooks.

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