I'm Josh. I watch a lot of films and play a lot of games set in the past, and I keep pausing them to look things up. This is where I write up what I find: what really happened, what got made up, and where historians still disagree.
I'm not a historian, so every post lists its sources and I fix mistakes in the open. Most posts also have a video on the YouTube channel.
Latest
Gladiator II: how accurate is it?
The real people are in the right era, but almost everything they do on screen is made up. Great spectacle, shaky history.
Sections
- Films 1 post
Films set in the past, checked against the sources.
- TV coming soon
Period dramas and historical series, checked against the sources.
- Games coming soon
Games set in the past, and how close they get to the real thing.
- Deep dives coming soon
Longer pieces on history I think more people should know about.