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
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
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode Five ‘The Lost Boy’ Olga Hughes Film & TV December 5, 2019
The Mythology of Jane Boleyn: What was Jane and Anne Boleyn’s Relationship Like? History September 13, 2022
The Princes in the Urn: Why it’s Time to Let Go of the Westminster Abbey Myth Olga Hughes HistoryRichard III March 23, 2015
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
1000 Years Of Cnut C S Hughes May 7, 2017Firstly, do not read this if you are dyslexic. And no tittering in the back row. This is mostly a...
A Diary of Anne Boleyn A Poem by James Walton C S Hughes November 12, 2016A Diary of Anne Boleyn My ladies weep in the vernacular tongue kneeling in the French style I caught the...
A Call For Grand Emojis C S Hughes September 29, 2015We all know what emoticons and emojis are, they are the cute little images that are part of operating systems...
Fuckin Abbot C S Hughes August 21, 2015The first recorded use of the word in English occurs in a 1528 manuscript copy of Cicero’s epic work of...
The Mystery Of The Sword At The Crossroads C S Hughes August 16, 2015In pagan times a river was seen as the crossroads between worlds, the life giving property of water, the power...
Shakespeare Or Not Shakespeare, That Is The Question C S Hughes May 21, 2015Historian and botanist Mark Griffiths in a recent article in Country Life Magazine claimed to have discovered the only verifiable...
Richard III – For A Horse C S Hughes March 30, 2015CATESBY Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue! The king enacts more wonders than a man, Daring an opposite to...
How A Lost Sherlock Holmes Helped Almost Save The Selkirk Bridge C S Hughes February 21, 2015In 1902 the Ettrick Water swelled and flooded and washed away the Bannerfield’s Bridge, an old rickety wooden structure that...
A Bit Past Australia Day – Or How The Kangaroo Got His Tale C S Hughes January 30, 2015A traditional Aboriginal creation story may tell you the tale of how, in the Dreamtime, there was a particularly greedy...
1666 A Witch’s Eye View Of The Great Fire Of London C S Hughes January 23, 2015History records that the Great Fire Of London began in the early hours of the 2nd of September, 1666, in...
