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 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...

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...

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

If you’re here looking for the answer to that question: no. No, he didn’t. We don’t...

The most frequently asked question of 2017 (on this blog at least, I missed it at Prime Minister’s...

Firaxis has announced Korea will feature as a civilisation in the Civ VI expansion: Rise and Fall (due...

The final installment of Women of the Three Kingdoms. Or at least, the final installment until Koei announces...