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
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
Love Is A Dagger – In which we ponder whether for Shakespeare love is mere words, or an altogether more penetrating object. C S Hughes 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
Finding Richard III: The Official Account of a Remarkable Journey Olga Hughes BooksHistoryRichard III July 31, 2014
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...
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...
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...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Five ‘The Lost Boy’ Olga Hughes December 5, 2019Episode 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 November 27, 2019Episode 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 November 24, 2019The 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 November 20, 2019Episode Three Spoilers The Spies For an episode that took place over a handful of days in even fewer locations,...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Two ‘The Idea of the North’ Olga Hughes November 13, 2019Episode 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 November 5, 2019Episode 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 November 3, 2019The following is spoiler-free but references themes from the His Dark Materials book trilogy. The Golden Compass has its twelve...
