HISTORY & FILM

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17th CenturyHistorical Novels Review

WRITTEN BY DOUGLAS KEMP Peter Greenaway’s The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) is set in an English country house in 1694, but it is not “about” the past in the dutiful costume-drama sense. The film is too ceremonious and absorbed with its... Read More

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18th CenturyHistorical Novels ReviewNapoleonic

WRITTEN BY BEN BERGONZI I am assuming that readers of this article have seen Barry Lyndon and know its plot. On release in 1975, it was a commercial failure in the USA but better received in the rest of the... Read More

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16th CenturyHistorical Novels ReviewTudor

WRITTEN BY KRISTEN MCDERMOTT When my mother-in-law called to discuss the film Hamnet with her resident Shakespeare professor (me), she noted that, while she had read the novel the film was based on when it came out in 2020, my... Read More

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16th CenturyHistorical Novels ReviewNauticalTudor

WRITTEN BY JENNY BARDEN ‘Throw away the history books and behold the majesty.’ This was BBC Movies’ review of Shekhar Kapur’s epic: Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).¹ The film was, by Kapur’s own admission: ‘…based on mythology. It is the... Read More

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19th CenturyGreat DepressionHistorical Novels Review

WRITTEN BY MICHELLE MCGILL-VARGAS I love horror movies, especially the classic Hammer or Universal horror films featuring the likes of Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi. My Saturday evenings are usually spent watching campy flicks like Dracula’s Daughter or Curse of... Read More