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His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 5 The Scholar His Dark Materials December 12, 2020
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 8 Season Finale ‘Betrayal’ Olga Hughes His Dark Materials December 29, 2019
From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium? Film & TV July 29, 2022
From ‘Wicked Wife’ to ‘Insane Traitor’: The Continued Slander of Jane Boleyn History January 25, 2021
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 8 Season Finale ‘Betrayal’ His Dark Materials December 29, 2019
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 7 ‘The Fight to the Death’ Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVHis Dark Materials December 21, 2019
Channel 5’s Anne Boleyn – ‘Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be’ Film & TV June 12, 2021
From ‘Wicked Wife’ to ‘Insane Traitor’: The Continued Slander of Jane Boleyn History January 25, 2021
Henry VII & Elizabeth of York: ‘The Shadow of the Tower’ Watch-along and Discussion Film & TV November 12, 2020
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires with Sara Cockerill History May 27, 2020
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires with Sara Cockerill History May 27, 2020
Jane Seymour projected the persona people demanded of her: An interview with Adrienne Dillard BooksHistoryInterviews November 16, 2019
In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII with Natalie Grueninger and Sarah Morris HistoryInterviews November 23, 2016
The Maligned Lady Rochford – An Interview and Cover Reveal with Adrienne Dillard HistoryInterviews September 19, 2016
Scandalous Liaisons : Charles II and His Court with R.E. Pritchard HistoryInterviews September 14, 2016
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 5 The Scholar His Dark Materials December 12, 2020
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 4 ‘Tower of the Angels’ Film & TV December 4, 2020
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 2 ‘The Cave’ Film & TV November 19, 2020
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode One ‘Lyra’s Jordan’ Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVHis Dark Materials November 5, 2019
Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’ Why Shylock Is More Relevant Than Ever Olga Hughes Shakespeare March 7, 2022
From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium? Olga Hughes Film & TV July 29, 2022 0The first time I saw Jane Austen described as a ‘prose Shakespeare’ it struck me as absolute perfection. It was...
From ‘Wicked Wife’ to ‘Insane Traitor’: The Continued Slander of Jane Boleyn Olga Hughes History January 25, 2021 0There was a time, not that long ago, when I was enthusiastic about arguing every detail, and examining every possible...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 7 Æsahættr Olga Hughes Film & TV December 31, 2020 0Episode spoilers and full book spoilers for The Subtle Knife. Æsahættr The crew behind His Dark Materials have always been...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 6 Malice Olga Hughes Film & TV December 20, 2020 0Episode Spoilers Malice All of Mrs. Coulter’s story over season two, from her torturing the witch Katja, the murder of...
“From The Ashes” Poetry for Bushfire Relief: Call for Submissions Olga Hughes Books January 23, 2020 0Call for submissions. The 2019-2020 bushfire season has seen unprecedented destruction, as well as an unprecedented national and worldwide response....
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 8 Season Finale ‘Betrayal’ Olga Hughes His Dark Materials December 29, 2019 2Episode 8 Spoilers Betrayal If there was one episode this season that was an almost perfect adaptation of the source...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 7 ‘The Fight to the Death’ Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVHis Dark Materials December 21, 2019 0Episode 7 Spoilers The Fight to the Death There is no way of getting around the fact that, for book...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 6 ‘The Daemon-Cages’ Olga Hughes His Dark Materials December 11, 2019 0Episode Six Spoilers The Daemon-Cages Philip Pullman once said that “There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Five ‘The Lost Boy’ Olga Hughes Film & TV December 5, 2019 0Episode 5 Spoilers The Lost Boy Who is the ‘lost boy’? Titled for chapter twelve of Northern Lights, in which...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Four ‘Armour’ Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVHis Dark Materials November 27, 2019 2Episode Four Spoilers Armour We’re now four episodes in, and Armour revealed some small flaws in the thus-far polished veneer...
His Dark Materials: On Gyptians Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVHis Dark Materials November 24, 2019 0The Gyptians of Philip Pullman’s ‘Brytain’ and the wider world were introduced in the first episode of His Dark Materials...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Three ‘The Spies’ Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVHis Dark Materials November 20, 2019 0Episode Three Spoilers The Spies For an episode that took place over a handful of days in even fewer locations,...
Jane Seymour projected the persona people demanded of her: An interview with Adrienne Dillard Olga Hughes BooksHistoryInterviews November 16, 2019 0It is difficult to try and define which of Henry VIII’s queens have been the most maligned, because they have...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Two ‘The Idea of the North’ Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVHis Dark Materials November 13, 2019 0Episode Two Spoilers The Idea of the North In his lecture ‘The Writer’s Responsibility’, Philip Pullman quotes film director and...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode One ‘Lyra’s Jordan’ Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVHis Dark Materials November 5, 2019 4Episode One Spoilers Lyra’s Jordan If, as a book fan, you had any reservations about His Dark Materials, the opening...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: ‘The Golden Compass’ and Pre-Show Thoughts Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVHis Dark Materials November 3, 2019 0The following is spoiler-free but references themes from the His Dark Materials book trilogy. The Golden Compass has its twelve...
1946 George Orwell’s Christmas Pudding C S Hughes Books October 9, 2018 0When Voltaire made his often-quoted statement that the country of Britain has “a hundred religions and only one sauce”, he...
