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
Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen with Sara Cockerill Olga Hughes HistoryInterviews September 25, 2014
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
Looking For Richard Project Announcement: Updates on Richard III’s Tomb and Visitor Centre Olga Hughes HistoryNewsRichard III November 2, 2014
Love Is A Dagger – In which we ponder whether for Shakespeare love is mere words, or an altogether more penetrating object. C S Hughes August 5, 2023“Love is a fire, and it’s ragin’ out of control” Genya Ravan moans through a scene in the 1979 Walter...
“From The Ashes” Poetry for Bushfire Relief: Call for Submissions Olga Hughes January 23, 2020Call for submissions. The 2019-2020 bushfire season has seen unprecedented destruction, as well as an unprecedented national and worldwide response....
For Halloween We Present ‘A Prisoner of This Tower’ Olga Hughes October 31, 2019For this year’s Halloween poem I have chosen C.S. Hughes’ A Prisoner of This Tower, for the eerie connection between...
Starling, Fred, Mousie and Me C S Hughes October 31, 2017Starling, Fred, Mousie and Me by CS Hughes...
Richard III before Bosworth Field by James Walton Olga Hughes May 30, 2017 I was walking on a local beach known for its dinosaur fossils, playing with pebbles and sea weed, thinking...
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...
Misappropriating the Myth: Leda and the Swan Olga Hughes September 16, 2016“…a legend tells how Zeus winged his way to my mother Leda’s breast, in the semblance of a bird, even...
Gertrude Stein’s Cat Olga Hughes August 8, 2016For International Cat Day, here is C.S. Hughes’s Gertrude Stein’s Cat. Save Save Save Save...
The Untold Tale Of Tom and Zellandine Olga Hughes February 29, 2016For Leap Day we present the enchanting tale, The Untold Tale Of Tom and Zellandine, by our very own C.S....
For Halloween We Present The Gothic Horror Lord Bonyfoote’s Dance Olga Hughes October 31, 2015For Halloween we present for your terror, delectation and amusement, Lord Bonyfoote’s Dance, a poem in the classic Gothic tradition...
The Unexpected Pleasures Of A Guide To Sydney Rivers C S Hughes September 22, 2015Perhaps the most familiar line from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind In The Willows is also the most misquoted, the misquote...
By Sun, By Sea by C S Hughes Book Giveaway! Olga Hughes April 18, 2015By Sun, By Sea is a short poem by C S Hughes about memory, sadness, surf and old shoes. It...
Poems For Beans On International Poetry Day C S Hughes March 21, 2015We all know most writers, instead of making a living, get paid in dreams, hopes and intimations of immortality, but...
Writing Through Fences – A Human Connection Through The Wire C S Hughes March 5, 2015People fleeing war, bigotry, prejudice, oppression and chaos in their countries of origin, under the United Nations Convention and Protocol...
A Motion Poem of Kenn Nesbitt’s Wayne The Stegosaurus C S Hughes November 18, 2014Motion Poems – poems illustrated by video and animation, are certainly nothing new. From cartoon versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s...
Conrad Aiken The Vampire (1916) A Poem For Halloween C S Hughes October 31, 2014Conrad Aiken is an American poet, playwright, novelist and essayist. He was born in 1889 in Savannah, Georgia. His parents...
Jaye Tomas Two Poems C S Hughes October 15, 2014Maybe It Was The Wine Maybe it was the wine the way it went to my face and bloomed there...