Outlander – Season Two
Some narrative coherence is lost in the second season of the time-travel fantasy.
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Valmont (1989)
Looking back at two distinctive adaptations of de Laclos's novel.
Turn: Washington’s Spies
Loyalty, Lies, and Subterfuge: Portraying the American War for Independence as a History from the Shadows
Doctor Who – Thin Ice
A highly enjoyable, and sensitive, peep into Regency London.
Black Sails
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story: The Pirates! in an Adventure with Mythographers.
Type:Rider
An engaging journey through the history of fonts.
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
An adaptation that reconnects with the source material's eighteenth-century roots.
British History’s Biggest Fibs – Episode Two: The Glorious Revolution
A commendable examination of 1688 and all that.
Poldark Season Two
In defence of the popular adaptation.
Inventing the ‘In Between’: Women and Motherhood in Eighteenth-Century Period Drama
Doing justice to eighteenth-century motherhood on screen.