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.

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...

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...