Keep exploring the worlds of the period dramas featured on Period Dramas: Site & Screen.

• The White Queen

• The White Princess

• The Spanish Princess

• The Last Kingdom

• Bridgerton

• Poldark

• Peaky Blinders

• Wolf Hall

• My Lady Jane

• Outlander

• All Creatures Great and Small

• Downton Abbey

• Band of Brothers

• Masters of the Air

• Pride and Prejudice (1995, 2005)

• The Crown

• Victoria

• Mary & George

• The Hollow Crown

• Call the Midwife

• Gentleman Jack

• Mary, Queen of Scots (2018)

• The Favourite

• Gunpowder

• The Duchess

• The Buccaneers

• The King

• The Dig

• Elizabeth (1998)

• Shardlake

• Firebrand

• A Thousand Blows

• Outlaw King

• Churchill

• Derry Girls

• Say Nothing

• The Great

• Belle

• The Tudors

Explore select historical texts relating to the worlds of your favorite period dramas.

Corder, R.E, ‘The Seamy Side,’ Daily Mail, 3 April 1929. https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=GDCS&u=livuni&id=GALE%7CEE1865746004&v=2.1&it=r&sid=GDCS&asid=1cded2ae

James VII and II. “Select speeches delivered by His Majesty upon extraordinary occasions, both before and since his retiring out of England,” in James II, Royal Tracts. In Two Parts. (Paris: 1692), 1-65.

Kirton, Joanne, and Graeme Young. 2016. “Excavations at Bamburgh: New Revelations in Light of Recent Investigations at the Core of the Castle Complex.” Archaeological Journal 174 (1): 146–210. doi:10.1080/00665983.2016.1229941

Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn with Notes. New Haven: Yale University Library, 1942.

Mancini, Dominic. The Usurpation of Richard III. Edited and translated by C.A.J. Armstrong. 2nd edn. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969).

Select further scholarship on the relationship between history, film and heritage.

Byrne, Katherine, Taddeo, Julie Anne, and Leggott, James, eds. Conflicting Masculinities : Men in Television Period Drama. (London: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2018).

De Groot, James, Consuming History : Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture, (New York: Routledge, 2009).

Leggott, James, and Taddeo, Julie Anne, eds. Upstairs and Downstairs : British Costume Drama Television from the Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey. (Basingstoke: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2014).

McPake, Alana, ‘Boundaries of (dis)belief: past and present in period television drama and its cultural reception,’ eSharp, 29 (2021), pp. 47-59.