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.

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...

When Christianity was established back in the day (I’m talking about the church fathers who established...

Season 3 of ‘The Tudors‘ shows the death of Jane Seymour and the subsequent madness of Henry...

Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone asked for this, given the “accuracy”...