Who better than a novelist who's also a historian and the latest biographer of Charles I to review Mary & George, the TV drama based on the life of George, Duke of Buckingham, favourite of James VI and I? We asked Mark Turnbull to watch the series. Many of us ask why the Stuarts are sidelined in film … Continue Reading
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Features
Felo de Se: the gruesome punishment that led to me writing The Low Road
Katharine Quarmby's investigation into the gruesome burial of a suicide victim -- for felo de se -- with links to her home town inspired her … Continue Reading
Fiction and the English Civil Wars
By Jemahl Evans
Jemahl Evans, author of the Blandford Candy series of novels about a man known as the last Roundhead, surveys 300 years of fiction about the … Continue Reading
Historia Live in April
By Editor
Historia Live, the HWA’s series of author events showcasing historical fiction and history writing, is back at the Wheatsheaf in London on … Continue Reading
PT Barnum and the Circassian girl
By RN Morris
It was a shock for RN Morris to discover that PT Barnum, the famous showman, was a people-trafficker. Yet the facts are well documented. For … Continue Reading
Interviews
Historia interview: 2023 HWA Gold Crown shortlist: Rebecca Stott
By Frances Owen
Rebecca Stott's novel Dark Earth was shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award in 2023. The judges described it as "spellbinding... Filled with folklore and myth and evocative world-building, an immersive and … Continue Reading
Historia interview: SG MacLean
By Frances Owen
To mark SG (Shona) MacLean's new novel, The Winter List, being published, Historia spoke to her about returning to characters we thought we'd seen the last of, as well as how she goes about researching her novels … Continue Reading
Reviews
Review: Mary & George
Who better than a novelist who's also a historian and the latest biographer of Charles I to review Mary & George, the TV drama based on the life of George, Duke of Buckingham, favourite of James VI and I? We … Continue Reading
TV review: Lessons in Chemistry
By James Burge
How well does bestselling historical fiction transfer to the TV screen? James Burge reviews Apple TV's adaptation of Lessons in Chemistry and finds it "well-crafted, effective and intelligent". Films and novels … Continue Reading