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.

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”...

A long, long time ago, I wrote that it would take too long to detail the very many historical inaccuracies...

Part one of this little series looked at the mass outbreaks of demonic possession (see also: convent...

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...