Media History

19th July 2021

Has the dust settled yet from the events of the final of the European Championships? If you’re an England...

28th June 2021

You’ll most likely love this time of year if you’re a football fan, or you’ll hate it if you’re...

31st May 2021

(Please be aware of upsetting content) When it comes to reflecting on war, we are all familiar with art,...

24th May 2021

As museums start to reopen after months of lockdown, I’ve put together a list of amazing, inspiring, and fascinating...

17th May 2021

As a historian studying historical video games, I get one of two reactions when I tell people what I’m...

22nd March 2021

No, I don’t mean the organ in our bodies. I mean the : in historical writings. What I’m about...

1st March 2021

Contains spoilers – although everyone dies in historical fiction at some point, right? “Perhaps the golden age of the...

1st February 2021

Beware: This review will contain some spoilers, but as Barbarians is based on a factual episode in history, these...

7th December 2020

I skirted around this question in my last blog. There I argued the benefits of historical TV dramas in...

28th September 2020

Historical computer games, much like historical films, are perhaps entitled to a little ‘artistic licence’. The obvious example being...