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.

I recently wrote a piece about the history of the royal tiaras featured in the first two seasons of The...

By request, I have begun watching The Spanish Princess. The show, by its own admission, takes dramatic...

During a recent re-watch of The Crown, I was struck by an exchange between Princess Margaret and her...

Elizabeth of York and Henry VII had the very model of a courtly marriage. Their marriage was not only...

Did someone try to assassinate Elizabeth I with a poisoned dress? This question (the number one question...

Have two different versions of the Titanic’s final moments… The first from A Night to Remember...

It’s pretty hard to get together research for a decent blog post during a global pandemic. I’ve...

I’m a child of the nineties and so most of my early movie education consisted of credit sequences that...

“It’s not Christmas until I’ve talked about the Donner Party.” – Me, Christmas Day 2019. It turns...