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.

It seems I’m in the mood to pick apart the history behind musicals. Normally, that’d fall...

The Greatest Showman (2017) is a musical presenting the fantastical life of Phineas Taylor Barnum, best...

The first season of The Spanish Princess ends with the death of Henry VII and thus the accession of Henry...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman excelling in History must be questioned in...

In 872 various Scandinavian petty kingdoms unified in what would eventually become the kingdom of Norway...

It isn’t often that I open a post with memes but in this instance they’re actually pretty...

Once again, I find myself looking into the stories that inspired various horror films as part of my increasingly...

In March 1917 Nicholas Romanov, Emperor of Russia abdicated the Imperial throne giving the country’s...

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Not so long ago, I was talking about how I was really impressed with The Spanish...