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.

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...

I had planned to review OWEN on its own. Indeed, I get so little time to read these days I set aside...

The problem with the Tudors is that they’re all too interesting for their own good. The colourful...

Content Warning: Bodies, corpses, cadavers etc. This article looks at unusual ways in which bodies have...

It’s not often I get to do this, but I am very excited to present a guest post! Author of The Tudor...