From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium? Film & TV July 29, 2022
Channel 5’s Anne Boleyn – ‘Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be’ Film & TV June 12, 2021
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 5 The Scholar His Dark Materials December 12, 2020
Grandpa Joe Is Not the Villain, You Are: Ableism, Classism, and Ageism in the Online Hatred of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Grandpa Joe Books June 8, 2026
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
A Study in Copyright – Sherlock Holmes now in the Public Domain Olga Hughes BooksFilm & TVNews January 22, 2014
The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: What was Jane and Anne Boleyn’s Relationship Like? History September 13, 2022
The Marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Wydeville with Susan Higginbotham Olga Hughes HistoryInterviews September 29, 2014
Love Is A Dagger – In which we ponder whether for Shakespeare love is mere words, or an altogether more penetrating object. Shakespeare August 5, 2023
Who Was Shakespeare’s King Richard III? Part I: The Tudor Propaganda Myth Olga Hughes Shakespeare April 30, 2022
King Richard III to be Reinterred on March 26th 2015 Olga Hughes HistoryNewsRichard III August 7, 2014
Who Does the Story of ‘The Lost King’ Really Belong To? Olga Hughes August 30, 2022Back in 2017, all we knew about an upcoming film on the search for Richard III’s lost grave was a...
From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium? Olga Hughes July 29, 2022The first time I saw Jane Austen described as a ‘prose Shakespeare’ it struck me as absolute perfection. It was...
Channel 5’s Anne Boleyn – ‘Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be’ Olga Hughes June 12, 2021There are certain aspects of Anne Boleyn’s life, and death, that will always influence the way her story is told....
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 7 Æsahættr Olga Hughes December 31, 2020Episode 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 December 20, 2020Episode Spoilers Malice All of Mrs. Coulter’s story over season two, from her torturing the witch Katja, the murder of...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 5 The Scholar Olga Hughes December 12, 2020Episode Spoilers The Scholar Francesca Gardiner’s solo effort on The Scholar gave us a deeply fascinating insight into mother and...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 4 ‘Tower of the Angels’ Olga Hughes December 4, 2020Episode 4 Spoilers Tower of the Angels I thought that the hope of seeing a great adaptation of His Dark...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 3 ‘Theft’ Olga Hughes November 24, 2020Episode 3 Spoilers Theft The first few minutes of Theft is crammed with disparate story threads. The episode opens with...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 2 ‘The Cave’ Olga Hughes November 19, 2020Episode 2 Spoilers The Cave When Will and Lyra’s stories were separate in Season One, the children seemed a little...
Henry VII & Elizabeth of York: ‘The Shadow of the Tower’ Watch-along and Discussion Olga Hughes November 12, 2020The recently formed ‘James Maxwell and The Shadow of the Tower’ Facebook group will be holding its first The Shadow...