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Hi, this is Dana Schwartz, and I am so thrilled to be here today with a very special interview.

I'm talking to Dr. Hugh Doherty, who's a professor at the University of East India in the UK.

He focuses, I think primarily on medieval topics, your lecture in medieval subjects, but very exciting to my personal interest is he served as the

historical consultant on the truly excellent television series, A Night of the Seven Kingdoms.

And I just want to be very clear.

This is not a sponsored episode.

No one is paying me to do this.

I just genuinely, personally, love a television show so much. And so I'm

personally so delighted to be speaking with you. Dr. Doherty, thank you for joining.

It's a pleasure to be here. Just to dive right in, can you talk a little bit about your

field and your subjects that you primarily focus on when you're

not consulting for historical fantasy.

I have an expertise in 10th and 11th and 12th century Europe and as I was all to

my own choice, I wanted to teach, I'm fascinated with the ancient history. So I teach a module on the Roman Empire,

and I also teach a module on the Hundred Years' War. So I know a little about a lot.

Well, that's sort of the motto for this podcast, where I've covered several thousands of years of

history. What I love about a Knight of the

Seven Kingdoms and Game of Thrones in general is it very clearly takes place in a fantasy,

but there are analogs to real British history. I think it's pretty clear that the original

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