A C O M P A N I O N T O T H E F I L M S
Long-form documentary films on the British and Scottish past — drawn from letters that were meant to be burned, ledgers kept in private, and testimony sealed against the official record.
Nº01
Regency England · 1820
George IV had the doors of Westminster Abbey physically barred against Caroline of Brunswick on her own coronation day. She died three weeks later. The official record called it a coincidence.
WATCH THE FILM — 32 MINNº02
May 2026
What survived of the Albert correspondence, and what it reveals.
Nº03
July 2026
The real model for the godmother in Persuasion.
Nº04
September 2026
A private ledger of public shame.
Nº05
November 2026
The thesis film, in pure form.
“History written by its survivors,
sealed by its beneficiaries,
and recovered from the margins
they left behind.”
— T H E E D I T O R S
A long-form essay accompanies each film — the citations the film does not need to carry.
The official Coronation Order of 1820 makes no provision for the exclusion of a reigning queen consort. Yet the doors were barred. What protocol was being followed, and by whose authority?
MARCH 2026 · 12 MIN READ
Princess Beatrice spent three decades transcribing — and excising — her mother's journals. The originals were burned. The transcripts are the only record. We have learned to read what is missing.
MAY 2026 · 18 MIN READ
Three surviving letters from a woman Austen knew in Bath. Read in sequence, they describe the slow construction of a cage around a younger relation — and the novelist watching it happen.
JULY 2026 · 14 MIN READ
P A T R O N A G E
Four to six months in the archive for each film. Patrons receive the companion essays early, the full source bibliography, and the working notes.
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