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The books, TV shows and films causing a stir in the history world this month

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All About History Magazine

23 January, 2025

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The Week UK

Film & tv

His for Hawk 1hr 59mins (12A) Moving adaptation ...

The TLS

In brief

Alice Loxton EleanorA 200-mile walk in search of England’slost queen352pp. Pan Macmillan. £22. Many are commemorated in stone, but few so grandly as Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290). Following her unexpec

Country Life

A question of inheritance

A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National ...

Fortean Times

Would i lie to you?

“Welcome to the 19th century,” began Jeremy Harte, introducing the Folklore Society’s Legendary Weekend examining ‘Lying in Legend and Tradition’. Gathering at Carlisle’s Tullie House Museum over 6-7

Radio Times Magazine

A riotous night to remember

BACK IN THE BAND WE PREDICT A RIOT ...

BBC Countryfile Magazine

Fight or flight

On a crisp winter morning in Hawkedon, West Suffolk, frost covers the village green and mist wreathes the corrugated fields beyond the church. Inside a cosy cottage alive with the chatter of birds, He