Fake History Hunter

Now and then I review a film or TV show, play a computer game or book I’ve read and share my opinions on social media.
Of course from the perspective of a history addict obsessed with details and authenticity.
On this page you’ll find some of those threads.
If you see just a link, it will take you to a Twitter thread.
If you see twitter & bluesky or threads mentioned under the title, clicking those will take you to threads on those websites.
If you see wordpress & substack mentioned, clicking those will take you to the thread in article form, which is a bit easier to read.

Films

• The Vikings (1958)
• The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
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• The Bunker (1981)
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• A Knights Tale (2001)
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• Outlander (2008)
• Black Death (2010)
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• The Wolfman (2010)
• Dracula ontold (2014)
• The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
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• Their finest (2016)
• Outlaw King (2018)
• The King (2019)
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• Charité at War (2019)
• The Irishman (2019)
• The Old Guard (2020)
• The Reckoning (2020)
• The Dig (2021)
• The Last Duel (2021)
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• The Northman (2022)
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• The Last Kingdom (last season, 2022)
• A spy among friends (2022)
• Medieval (2022)
• The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
• The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings must die (2023)
• Napoleon (2023)
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• Indiana Jones and the Dial of destiny (2023)
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• The Zone of Interest (2023)
• Firebrand (2023)
• Nosferatu (2024)
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• Dû bist mîn ich bin dîn (2025)
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TV shows

• World on fire series 1 (2019)
• Medieval Dead episode (2021)
• Iron Chef (2022)
• 1899 (2022)
• Das Boot,series 3, episode 1.
• Barbarians season, 2 (2022)
• A discovery of witches, season 2 (2021)
• The Detectorists (Christmas Special 2022)
• Vikings: Valhalla (2022)
• Tony Robinson’s History of Britain, Episode 4, season 2
• The Black Death (2023)
• Bodies (2023)
• Time Bandits (2024)
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• King & Conqueror (2025)
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• Robin Hood (2025)
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Games

• The Saboteur (2009)
• Assassin’s Creed Unity (2014)
• Battlefield 1 Revolution (2016)
• Call of Duty WWII (2017)
• Kingdom Come Deliverance (2018)
• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (2018)
• A Plague Tale (2019)
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (2020)
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• Medieval Dynasty
• Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War
• War Mongrels (2021)
• Call of Duty Vanguard
• Sniper Elite 5 (2022)
• Pentiment (2022)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (2022)
• Vienna 1480 – Renaissance Room (2023)
• Inkulinati (2024)
• Aviators (2024)
• Manor Lords (2024)
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• News Tower (2024)
• Sniper Elite: resistance (2025)
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• Kingdom Come Deliverance II (2025)
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• Scriptorium playtest (2025)
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Youtube videos

• Why the Dark Ages Were the Worst Time to be Alive, by the Infographics Show
• How Did Bubonic Plague (Black Death) Actually End?, by the Infographics show
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• What Hygiene Was Like For Medieval Peasants, by Weird History
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Online articles & other publications

• Listverse: 10 Gross Facts That Confirm the Middle Ages Were Beyond Filthy
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• Tales of the middle ages: Why Medieval Castles Were Filthy Places You’d Never Want to Live In
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Books:

• ‘Struwwelpeter’, by Heinrich Hoffmann (1845)
• ‘The Luttrell village’, by Sheila Sancha (1982)
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• ‘Water technology in the Middle Ages’, by Roberta J. Magnusson (2003)
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• ‘I wonder why, Book of knowledge’. by various authors (2006)
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• ‘Clean, a history of personal hygiene and purity’ by Virginia Smith (2008)
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• Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities’ by Carole Rawcliffe (2013)
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• ‘Von der Badstube zum Badekabinett’ by Daniela Rösing (2014)
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• ‘Urban Women: Life, Love, and Work in the Medieval Low Countries’ by Andrea Bardyn, Chanelle Delameillieure, Jelle Haemers (2019)
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• ‘Gross facts about the Middle Ages’, by Mira Vonne (2019)
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• ‘The Light Ages’ by Seb Falk (2020)’
• Het middeleeuwse openbare badhuis’ by Fabiola van Dam (2020)
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• ‘Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries’ by Janna Coomans (2021)
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• ‘Spurensuche im Mittelalter’ by Stadtmuseum Neckarsulm (2021)
• ‘Life in Medieval Europe, fact and fiction’ by Danièle Cybulskie (2021)
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• ‘Unfortunate Ends: On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England’ by Soren Lily. (2022)
• ‘Historic Building Mythbusting’, by James Wright (2024)
• The medieval pig’ by Dolly Jørgensen (2024)
  (you can also read the full review here on this website)

Art

• ‘Yves de Saint-Denis,Vita et passio sancti Dionysii’ (People on bridges), end 13th-beginning of the 14th century
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• Roman de la Rose, the seven deadly sins, 14th century
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• Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1412-1416)
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• The Nuremberg house books (1425 onwards)
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• Detail of the Werl Triptych (1438)
• Saint Martin by the Master of Sierentz. (1440–1450)
• Couple Seated on a Bed, from Sses of Daily Life, by Israhel van Meckenem, 1440s
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• Hausbuch von Schloss Wolfegg, bathing scene, c. 1480
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• Analysing the Narrenschiff window scene (1494)
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• Joanna I of Castile’s book of hours, circa 1500.
• The Pedlar, by Hieronymus Bosch, circa 1500
• The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, possibly by Hieronymus Bosch, circa 1500
• Dutch bathhouse scene, unknown artist, 1500s
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• The Seven Works of Mercy, by the Master of Alkmaar, 1504.
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• Ein andechtig geistliche Badenfart, bath house illustrations, 1514
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• Da Costa hours by by Simon Bening, c. 1515
• Series of paintings depicting German country life, by Hans Wertinger, c. 1516/1525
• Draper’s market in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, anonymous, 1530
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• ‘Brothel scene’ by the Brunswick Monogrammist, 1537
• Analysing the ‘Praxis rerum criminalium’ by Joos de Damhouder, 1554
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• ‘Twelve proverbs’ by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1558.
• Peasants by the Hearth, by Pieter Aertsen, 1560
• The Pancake Bakery, by Pieter Aertsen, 1560.
• 16th century drawing of a bath house
• ‘The Hunters in the Snow’ by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565.
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• ‘The Census at Bethlehem’, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
• ‘De boerendans’ (the farmer’s or peasant’s dance), Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1567.
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• ‘Boerenbruiloft’ (farmer’s or peasant’s wedding) from c. 1567.
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• Hausbuch von Schloss Wolfegg, Luna and her children, late 15th century
• Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1608.
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• Ice Skating in a village, Hendrick Avercamp, ca. 1610
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• Ice enjoyment by a city, Winter landscape by a city, Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1620
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• Winter landscape, by Pieter Brueghel de Jonge, c. 1624.
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• Winter, by Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, 1625.
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• The Village Fair, attributed to Sebastiaen Vrancx, c. 1634
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• The legend of the baker of Eeklo, copy after Cornelis van Dalem and Jan van Wechelen. C. 1550 – 1650.
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• Woman at her Toilet, by Jan Havicksz Steen, 1655–1660
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• The Saint Nicolas Feast, by Jan Steen (1660s)
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• The Discovery of Jan Claasz, by Cornelis Troost, 1738
• ‘Der lästige Kavalier’ by Berthold Woltze (1874)
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• A view of The Hague from the Delftse Vaart in the Seventeenth Century, Cornelis Springer, 1852.
• ‘Die Bauern und die Zeitung’ by Albert Anker, 1867
• Briton Rivière’s Victorian animal paintings
• “For the benefit of those ladies who ask the right to smoke in public.” Puck magazine, 1908, a bar where women are behaving like men.
• Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern (Electrical Protection in 132 Pictures)
• Walter Molino’s pulp art
• Cats stealing food in paintings
• The work of Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)

Historical Photo threads

• Woman selling chocolate on the street in Kensington, London, 1930s.
• Murder on the Rue des Bordeaux, crime scene photo 1903
• August Sander photos
• A Dutch family photo album
• The Ghosts of History, WWII photos combined with modern ones
• Colour photos of Joan D’ Arc festival in 1932
• Jenő Dulovits’s colour photos of the 1930s
• Hugh Mangum’s photos of American people, 1890s-1920s
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• Album of German from Dresden visiting the Netherlands during WWII
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Living History/Re-enactment photo threads

• Siege of Grolle 1627
• Roman camp in Germania
• Court of the dukes of Orléans 1394-1415
• 15th century at Château de Lassay
• De Gueules et d’Argent 1202
• Genz d’armes 1415
• Lothringen Landsknecht
• Barbaric invasions
• Celts in France, 3rd-1st century BC
• Late medieval event at Middelaldercentret in Denmark
• Verdun 1916
• Company of Saynt George late medieval event Middelaldercentret in Denmark
• 1470s Burgandy event
• Company of Saynt George gathering at Lenzburg, 2024.

Objects:

• Lego Medieval Town Square

Recommended threads:

• Medieval literacy & the story of 7 year old Onfim.
• Beethoven was not black.
• Medieval curfew fire covers
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• Testing an AI chat bot’s history knowledge
• Rushes on medieval and post medieval floors
• The Titanic baby
• Air rifle Ria
• The bodies in the ice
• The “Nanking massacre” photo album
• The Medieval body found at St Bees Priory
• Illustrations of 17th century carnivals
• Victorian Lady cyclist detectives
• Putting LOTS of art & old photos through the Myheritage animation application.
• Medieval & Renaissance beekeeping
• 18th & 19th century Anti slavery ceramics
• Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer
• History of early 20th century motorised scooters
• Photo thread about newsies, child newspaper sellers. & child labour
• When a movie crew decided that an historical open air museum wasn’t medieval enough
• Fancy Cycling. Trick Riding for Amateurs
• Illustrations from late 19th century Dutch Police News magazine
• Future fantasies, German 1930 picture album
• Women’s favourite weapons in the Chicago Sunday Tribune from 1900
• Photo thread on box-beds aka bedstedes
• The legend of Gelert, the baby saving dog
• The Horrors of the “Congo Free State”
• Naughty WWII adverts
• How a Danish Dutch diplomat saved my grandmother’s life in WWII.
• Josef Menšík, the knight who tried to stop the Nazis
• Researching a story about medieval women poisoning their husbands
• A little girl and her cat during the flood of 1953
• Ode to the humble washandje (little wash hand, aka washing mitt)
• Victorian & Edwardian postcards with real hair
• Researching when people started using a chopping block
• When did we start hanging laundry across streets and using clothes pegs?
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• Did medieval people share their homes with cattle?
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Threads on the Second World War & Remembrance

• Remi’s story, the tiny victim of the Holocaust
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• Dutch WWII booklet ‘Mad and Wise during Seyss’
• The Twentol Factory executions.
• Annick van Hardeveld’s story
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• Bourtange remembrance
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• Liberation of the Netherlands, photo thread
• Hidden radios of the war
• Teapots
• The German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940
• Van Berkhout and the destruction of Dutch vehicles in 1940
• How a Danish Dutch diplomat saved my grandmother’s life in WWII
• Swingkids, German anti Nazi movement in the 1930s-40s
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Threads on Hygiene History:

• Original 15th century bathhouse in Germany
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• 16th century drawing of a bath house
• Het middeleeuwse openbare badhuis, by Fabiola van Dam
• Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities’ by Carole Rawcliffe
• Ein andechtig geistliche Badenfart, bath house illustrations, 1514
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• Monks & toilets
• John of Wallingford’s anti Dane propaganda
• List of medieval conduits supplying towns & cities with clean water
• ‘Von der Badstube zum Badekabinett’ by Daniela Rösing
• 14th century Viennese infanterist’s morning routine
• About medieval people sharing their home with cattle
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• Bronze age (steam) bathing in the Netherlands
• Bathhouse museum in Wangen im Allgäu

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