Media History
Historical TV Review: Barbarians
Beware: This review will contain some spoilers, but as Barbarians is based on a factual episode in history, these...
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Should historical TV dramas come with a warning label that they may include fictitious content?
I skirted around this question in my last blog. There I argued the benefits of historical TV dramas in...
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Historical computer games and collective memory
Historical computer games, much like historical films, are perhaps entitled to a little ‘artistic licence’. The obvious example being...
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The positive uses of TV as Public History
In 1994 social historian Raphael Samuel warned those associated with the academic discipline of history to not dismiss the...
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History is actually useful, who knew!
We often study the past because we have a fascination with a certain century, period or topic. Something stands...
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The Background for Bond: Ian Fleming, James Bond and the British wartime Secret Service
Our resident blogger, Miles Clayton, takes us through Ian Fleming’s inspiration for James Bond. There are very few people...
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