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
Seven Ridiculous Reasons Superhero Movie Characters Wear Masks C S Hughes Film & TVRidiculam Mundi August 25, 2013
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
The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: Did Jane Testify Against Her Husband? Olga Hughes History August 11, 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
The Canonisation of Richard III: Have we Gone too Far? Jamie Adair HistoryRichard III October 4, 2013
Royal Library: Lord Morley’s Tribute to His Daughter Lady Rochford Olga Hughes March 12, 2015Henry Parker, Lord Morley must have spent most of his career under King Henry VIII with his loyalties torn between...
Royal Library: Catherine Howard’s Books Olga Hughes October 31, 2014There is some debate over whether Queen Catherine Howard was literate. However, we do have some examples of Catherine owning...
Royal Library: The Rose and Pomegranate – Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon Olga Hughes October 25, 2014The alliance between England and Spain was supposed to be the great triumph of the new Tudor dynasty. For Katherine...
Royal Library: Cecily Neville’s Legenda Aurea – The Golden Legend Olga Hughes October 17, 2014Bridget of York is the elusive youngest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Wydeville. Born in 1480 at Eltham, Bridget...
Royal Library: Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d’Angleterre – Edward IV or Edward V? Olga Hughes October 10, 2014The British Library houses the surviving manuscripts acquired by King Edward IV that formed the basis for the Royal Library....
Royal Library: Richard III’s Historia Destructionis Troiae and Historia Regum Britanniae Olga Hughes October 2, 2014Two of Richard III’s book have travelled rather a long way from his personal collection to the Russian Public Library...
