Media History

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...

14th September 2020

In 1994 social historian Raphael Samuel warned those associated with the academic discipline of history to not dismiss the...

24th August 2020

We often study the past because we have a fascination with a certain century, period or topic. Something stands...

11th May 2020

Our resident blogger, Miles Clayton, takes us through Ian Fleming’s inspiration for James Bond. There are very few people...