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.

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...

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...