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If "History is written by the victors", who was victorious in Game of Thrones—not on the battlefield, but in writing the history books?

George R.R. Martin has said that his world is based on a grab bag of histories. The problem is, the histories he's drawing from are woefully out of date.

Poor Sam got his hands seriously dirty in the last episode of Game of Thrones. Let's dig into the real history of all the crap he had to deal with.

Game of Thrones doesn’t just have a “diversity problem,” it has a racism problem. Part XXVI of our series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, by Helen Young.

NBC's "The Good Place" says that nobody has gone to heaven in 521 years. That makes the last truly good person medieval! But were the Middle Ages really so good?

Reigns is a cheap and cheerful casual game. It's also one of the best representations of medieval rulership.

A brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist! Game of Thrones has come and gone, and have we got a postmortem panel for you! Three scholars discuss where the show went right and wrong, and what to look forward to in the future.