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Review: Fortress of Fury by Matthew Harffy

17 November 2020 By Edoardo Albert

Edoardo Albert reviews Fortress of Fury, the latest book in Matthew Harffy’s much-loved Bernicia Chronicles series set in the turbulent world of seventh-century England. The many readers who have accompanied Matthew Harffy’s seventh-century warrior hero, Beobrand, through his adventures in the previous six books in the series will be expecting taut adventure, bloody and brutal […]

Summer reading for history lovers in 2020

16 June 2020 By Editor

Whatever this unusual summer may bring us, a good book can be an uplifting delight – or a comfort during difficult times. Historia has asked nine historical writers to suggest a new or recent book that has excited them as well as an old favourite to return to. Enjoy their summer reading recommendations! Nicola Cornick […]

Review: Charles I: Downfall of a King

8 July 2019 By James Burge

Charles I: Downfall of a King (BBC Four, 9 July, 2019) reviewed by James Burge for Historia magazine

Review: Storm of Steel by Matthew Harffy

9 May 2019 By Jemahl Evans

It’s been an exciting few days for readers of Matthew Harffy’s Bernicia Chronicles, his series set in 7th-century Britain. The fourth book, Killer of Kings, came out in paperback on 2 May, 2019, the same day that its sequel, Warrior of Woden, was published. A week later, Beobrand returns in a “stunning new instalment”, Storm […]

Review: The Favourite

9 January 2019 By Imogen Hermes Gowar

If the release of a new period drama isn’t accompanied by a debate about its historical accuracy, is it even a period drama?

The bones of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite are entirely factual – Queen Anne really did have a female ‘favourite’, Sarah Churchill, Lady Marlborough

Review: Les Miserables

3 January 2019 By Kate Griffin

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Everything about Les Miserables is built on an epic scale. At around 1500 pages, depending on which edition is making your bookshelf sag, Victor Hugo’s novel (published in 1862) is not only physically enormous, but also it deals with MASSIVE themes: love, obsession, redemption, justice, fate and the nature of good and evil. It’s human […]

Ancient World Roundup

1 April 2015 By Kate Atherton

The King and the Slave – Tim Leach (Atlantic Books) Following on from the magnificent The Last King of Lydia, The King and the Slave isn’t so much a sequel as a depiction of another phase in the life of Croesus, once the King of Lydia, the richest king of them all and now reduced to […]

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