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What’s next for period drama?

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I Think There's a Shift in the Way That Historians Work on Period Dramas

i think there are so many historians at the moment engaging in this kind of work. Another historian who comes to mind is hannah gregg, who is the consultant, amongst other things, for bridgeton. And i think she also wot on poldark. There doesn't exist the same training, necessarilya to work on dramais - certainly not historian's point of view. I do hope more things happen, cause i think a lot of times the audience assumption is often what history can be used to tell a certain story.

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