Fake History Hunter

Now and then I watch a film or TV show, play a computer game or read a book, that I then enjoy reviewing on Twitter.
Of course from the perspective of a history addict obsessed with details and authenticity.
Here I’ll try and keep an updated list of my reviews.

Films

• The Vikings (1958)
• A Knights Tale (2001)
• Black Death (2010)
• The VVitch (2015)
• Their finest (2016).
• The King (2019)
• The Old Guard (2020)
• The Last Duel (2021)
• The Northman (2022)
• Medieval (2022)
• The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

Games

• A Plague Tale (2019)
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (2020)
• War Mongrels (2021)
• Manor Lords (demo) (2022)
• Sniper Elite 5 (2022)
• Pentiment (2022)

TV shows

• Iron Chef (2022)
• 1899 (2022)
• Barbarians season, 2 (2022)
• A discovery of witches, season 2 (2021)
• The Black Death (2023)

Books

• ‘Life in Medieval Europe, fact and fiction’ by Daniele Cybulskie
• ‘Unfortunate Ends: On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England’ by Soren Lily.
• ‘Struwwelpeter’, by Heinrich Hoffmann

Art

• Saint Martin by the Master of Sierentz. (1440–1450)
• Couple Seated on a Bed, from Sses of Daily Life, by Israhel van Meckenem, 1440s
• Hausbuch von Schloss Wolfegg, bathing scene, c. 1480
• Joanna I of Castile’s book of hours, circa 1500.
• ‘Twelve proverbs’ by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1558.
• The Pancake Bakery, by Pieter Aertsen, 1560.
• ‘The Hunters in the Snow’ by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565.
• ‘The Census at Bethlehem’, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
• Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1608.
• Ice Skating in a village, Hendrick Avercamp, ca. 1610
• Winter, by Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, 1625.
• The Discovery of Jan Claasz, by Cornelis Troost, 1738
• Der lästige Kavalier (The troublesome cavalier/”gentleman”) by Berthold Woltze (1829–1896)
• A view of The Hague from the Delftse Vaart in the Seventeenth Century, Cornelis Springer, 1852.
• “For the benefit of those ladies who ask the right to smoke in public.” Puck magazine, 1908.
• Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern (Electrical Protection in 132 Pictures)

Analysing old photos

• Woman selling chocolate on the street in Kensington, London, 1930s.
• Murder on the Rue des Bordeaux, crime scene photo 1903

Recommended threads:

• Medieval literacy & the story of 7 year old Onfim.
• Beethoven was not black.
• Curfews
• 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
• Remi’s story, the tiny victim of the Holocaust
• Illustrations of Medieval carnivals.
• Dutch WWII booklet ‘Mad and Wise during Seyss’
• Victorian Lady cyclist detectives
• Putting LOTS of art & old photos through the Myheritage animation application.
• Medieval & Renaissance beekeeping
• 18th & 19th century Anti slavery ceramics
• Original 15th century bathhouse in Germany
• Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer

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