• History,  Movies

    Why I love really terrible historical dramas

    Please don’t mention this to my thesis committee, but I really love watching cheesy, historically inaccurate dramas.  Hear me out before you clutch your pearls.  Like many historians, I grew up watching a “historical piece” that was so entertaining that I had no idea that it wasn’t based completely in fact.   In my case, I got hooked about twenty years ago watching the miniseries Young Catherine with Julia Ormond.  I was OBSESSED with history after that.  Before, my historical education consisted of drawing letters to definitions with my pencil while the assistant football coach who taught the class tried to keep the rest of the kids from tearing the…