Matt Elton How important is it that period dramas are historically accurate?
Fern Riddell Having worked as a historical consultant on period dramas, I feel strongly that historical accuracy is one of the most important elements when recreating the lives of our ancestors or an event from the past. If you’re creating a total fantasy world set in the past, then of course accuracy is completely in the eye of the team making it. But even then, it still has a place - more in the texture and wider world than in aiming for a perfect recreation of a moment in time.
I agree, but I think it also depends on what the drama purports to be. If it’s setting out to recreate real events and
