About

I'm Josh, a film graduate from Melbourne with a long habit of pausing historical films to look things up. Beyond the Margin started as a YouTube channel. This site is where the written versions live, with more detail and all the sources.

Each post takes a film, show or game set in the past and checks it against what the sources say: what really happened, what got changed, and sometimes why. Some changes make a better story. Some are just wrong.

How I check

• I use primary sources where I can, and well-regarded historians where I can't.
• Every post ends with a list of sources, so you can read them yourself.
• Where historians disagree, I say so, and don't pretend it's settled.
• The score out of 10 is my opinion. Feel free to argue with it.

Mistakes

I'm not a professional historian, so I will get things wrong. If you spot something, tell me in the comments on YouTube. I'll fix it and add a note at the end of the post saying what changed.