The Ethics of Literary Revivification - Writer's Digest

I've written a book, and very luckily for me, it's about to be published. The Bloodless Boy is set in Restoration London in a snowy January 1678. It includes various "real" characters. People from history. People who had emotions, intellects, needs, desires, and who acted in the world, leaving consequences behind them. Yet I've taken the liberty to place them within a fictional story, with events occurring that didn't happen. I also have historical figures interacting with characters who are wholly made-up.

Historical fiction, it's generally called, and there are plenty of examples about. As such, the book sits somewhere on the spectrum between "history" and "fiction"-as if either can ever be free of the other.