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
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
From ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to ‘Persuasion’: Can Jane Austen Survive the Millennium? Olga Hughes Film & TV July 29, 2022
The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: What was Jane and Anne Boleyn’s Relationship Like? History September 13, 2022
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
The problems of Richard III’s Y chromosome; the problems relating to the burials at Clare Priory, and the problems of working with Historic England HistoryRichard III May 22, 2017
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....
Four Spectacular Music-Themed Movies To Check Out Dylan Sutton January 27, 2021Movies about music and musicians have always been quite popular among movie buffs and cinephiles. Look no further than the...
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...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 1 ‘City of Magpies’ Olga Hughes November 10, 2020Episode 1 Spoilers The City of Magpies Jack Thorne always allows his empathy to shine through in his writing. Over...
Sanditon: Why We Need Season Two Olga Hughes November 5, 2020Back in 2018, when it was announced that the new adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon would be penned...
Who’s Afraid of Anne Boleyn? Olga Hughes October 31, 2020Recently I saw a meme aimed at history nerds making fun of ‘social justice warriors’. I’ll laugh all day long...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 8 Season Finale ‘Betrayal’ Olga Hughes December 29, 2019Episode 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 December 21, 2019Episode 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 December 11, 2019Episode Six Spoilers The Daemon-Cages Philip Pullman once said that “There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult...