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.

Witch hunts were not new to the seventeenth-century population, having been around since before the time...

Throughout history, the death of an heir has had a mixed impact on contemporaries. Inevitably a sad event...

The birth of a royal baby is met with excitement from some, indifference by others and media speculation...

Elizabeth I’s sharp tongue was legendary. Her ladies and courtiers alike were keen to avoid her...

Anne Vavasour came to the court of Elizabeth I in the new year of 1580, probably with her sister Frances...

If you live outside the United Kingdom (or within it – in a bubble roughly the shape of West Glamorgan)...

I recently wrote a piece on Henry VII and Elizabeth of York where I suggested that we could see their...

The English Sweating Sickness, or the Sweat as we commonly know it today, was an aggressive condition...

Originally 327 feet in length, the Orangery at Margam was one of the longest in Britain, and while it...