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
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 Mythology of Jane Boleyn: Did Religion Come Between Jane and George? Olga Hughes October 24, 2022She could have been influenced by her own family’s long association with the Princess Mary. Eric Ives 1 The idea...
The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: What was Jane and Anne Boleyn’s Relationship Like? Olga Hughes September 13, 2022Rochford may have forced Jane to submit to the kind of sex that outraged her. That would have been cause...
The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: Was Jane ‘Rewarded’ by Thomas Cromwell? Olga Hughes August 28, 2022It is also the case that Lady Rochford’s interests as a widow were carefully looked after by Cromwell Eric Ives...
The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: Did Jane Attend a Protest for Princess Mary? Olga Hughes August 12, 2022One of the common approaches to creating the ‘villainous’ Jane Boleyn is to seperate her from her Boleyn family, to...
The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: Did Jane Testify Against Her Husband? Olga Hughes August 11, 2022Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, has really only left a faint impression on history. Yet I find Jane the most fascinating...
From ‘Wicked Wife’ to ‘Insane Traitor’: The Continued Slander of Jane Boleyn Olga Hughes January 25, 2021There was a time, not that long ago, when I was enthusiastic about arguing every detail, and examining every possible...
My Name is Jane…Boleyn Olga Hughes May 19, 2017“War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming—making people not know who they are....
George Boleyn; Arrogant? Eddie Boverington July 19, 2016My name is George Boleyn, And I’d like to set things straight; That I’m really not a monster, And in...
Respecting The Dead Clare Cherry August 4, 2015was in the fictional programme The Tudors that George Boleyn was first depicted as a rapist. He brutally raped his...
Wolf Hall Finale: Master of Propaganda Olga Hughes March 3, 2015Peter Straughan was facing two major problems when adapting Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies for television. The first...
Wolf Hall Episode 5: A Murder of Crows Olga Hughes February 21, 2015You have to wonder if it should really be this simple to gloss over the judicial murders of six innocent...
Wolf Hall’s Characterisations of the Boleyn Family Clare Cherry February 11, 2015I’m am not entirely sure what the Boleyn family did to deserve Hilary Mantel. In both her novels, and the...
George Boleyn: Forgotten Poet Clare Cherry October 14, 2014It is known that George Boleyn was a court poet. His earliest biographer, Edmond Bapst, considered George and Henry Howard...
George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier & Diplomat with Clare Cherry and Claire Ridgway Olga Hughes May 27, 2014It would be tempting to suggest that George Boleyn has been the victim of a certain amount of stereotyping over...
In the Shadow of the Throne: Thomas and George Boleyn with Lauren Mackay Olga Hughes August 26, 2013For centuries the black-eyed stare and mysterious smile of Anne Boleyn has captured our imaginations. It is her all-encompassing legacy...
My lute be still, for I have done : George Boleyn with Clare Cherry Olga Hughes August 15, 2013George Boleyn was an important man in the Tudor court, yet he spent centuries in relative obscurity. The husband of...
