Living in The Golden Age of Television is a real challenge sometimes. There are simply too many good TV shows out right now. I’ve got a list of shows I want to watch and there are only so many hours in a day. That’s why I’m combining two show reviews into one post. These shows are unrelated in almost every way. They just happened to …
Author Hilary Mantel has been drowning in accolades since Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies hit the bookstore shelves, the stage and then the TV screen. But I found it surprising when Mantel said women writers must stop falsely empowering female characters in history, referring specifically to historical fiction authors. It’s interesting that Mantel dislikes that part about historical fiction but doesn’t mind changing up other …
I'm Jillianne Hamilton—history geek, graphic+web designer and author of three action/comedy novels and one non-fiction book, The Lazy Historian's Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII.
The Lazy Historian focuses mainly on Western European and women's history but delves into anything fascinating. History articles, interviews, movie and book reviews and more.
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