From the monthly archives:

October 2007

How Old Does it Have to Be…

29 October 2007
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… to be considered historical?
With the proliferation of movies set in the first half of the 20th century this question becomes more and more frequent. For instance, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are among our favourite series, Agatha Christie’s famous characters who lived in around 1920/1930. Can those be considered historical adaptations? We’d like to [...]

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) – To Be or Not to Be… Arrogant?

22 October 2007
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Pride and Prejudice must be one of the most adapted novels to the big and small screen (not to mention the spin-offs!). Rather than boring us, all these movies and series make us await their release with great expectation. The last one to reach the theatres was Joe Wright’s 2005 version with Keira Knightley and [...]

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Cranford

17 October 2007
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Besides discussing our favourite historical series and movies we’ll also try and keep you updated on all the new historical productions out there. If you want to help us, you can always send us an email and we’ll post it, giving you the proper credits of course. These news will be stored on a specific [...]

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Monthly Discussion: North & South (2004)

13 October 2007
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One of our main goals when creating this blog was to watch historical productions (movies or series) and chat about them amongst ourselves and with our hopefully frequent visitors (yes you!).
So for our first discussion we’d like to suggest a favourite of ours, the BBC series North & South. We know there are already a [...]

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New World, New Blog

9 October 2007

We are 3 Portuguese girls, you’ll know us through our sigs – Alex, Ana O. and Ana T. – Alex lives in Paris, France while the two Anas live in different cities in Portugal. We got together because we like to read books, lots and lots of books! But soon we discovered there was another [...]

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