As of the time that this post is publishing, we will be in the midst of the second season of The Gilded Age. While most of the characters in the show are fictional, there are some who were historical figures in New York at that […]

I adore The Nutcracker in any form. (Of course, I will always pick the ballet but I’m up for an adaptation.) I was not a huge fan of Gregory Maguire’s Nutcracker retelling, but I have been on the look out for another. It is a Christmas […]

The #AnHistorianReads Book Club is doing a holiday read this year! In the past we’ve read Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen, Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, and Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery, among others. So I thought […]

I am back with some royal history for this week’s Book Bite! There has been a lot of books written about royal history, and it is rare to find a new perspective. However, Stephen Millar has done just that. When I spotted this book on […]

The Restoration period is one of my favourites in English/British history. It is sadly ignored for its Tudor predecessor much of the time, but people are absolutely shortchanging the period. There is a fascinating monarch on the throne, and whether or not you love him […]