Cinematic films on Henry VIII's Whitehall, Charles V at Yuste, Richard III at Bosworth, and the plague summer of 1348. Cut from the Cotton manuscripts, the Simancas archive, and the parish rolls of Eyam. Watch the films. Read the research.
Since Edward Hall published his chronicle in 1548, the official version of the Tudor century has been written by men with reasons to flatter the dynasty that paid them. Holinshed copied Hall. Foxe copied Holinshed. Burnet, in 1679, copied them all. Four hundred and seventy-eight years later, the same six anecdotes survive in every paperback.
The Forgotten is what happens when you go back to the ledgers, the underdrawings, the marginalia, and let them speak first.
Five steps from the archive to the finished film. Slow, deliberate, and the same every time.
Every film starts in the archives. Cotton manuscripts, Simancas dispatches, parish rolls, contemporary chronicles, and the marginalia nobody quotes. We work in primary sources first, secondary scholarship second, never the other way round.
The research is shaped into a documentary script with a clear argument and a deliberate tempo. We write to the evidence, footnote every claim, and rewrite until the prose carries the same weight as the source.
Each thumbnail is composed from a single legible image, a single legible promise. No clickbait, no synthetic faces. The aim is recognition at three centimetres tall on a phone, and dignity at full-bleed on a television.
Cut for argument, not for noise. We pace each beat against the manuscript page, the painting, the period instrument. No sound design that asks you to feel something the evidence does not earn.
Films go out on YouTube with every source named on screen and a written companion essay queued for the journal. Free to watch, free to read, no chapters held back behind a paywall.
Written companion essays to the films are in production. Each one lays out the primary sources, the contradictions, and the marginalia that didn't fit on screen. The first few drop later this year.
Every investigation takes a long time — archival reading, transcription, and re-checking before a single line gets written. No sponsors, no ad-reads, no patreon-only films. Patrons keep the lights on so the work can stay free for everyone else.