Hidden History Research

“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”

Encyclopedia Britannica – 1771

Tuesday, 8 January 2019, 10:07.Reading time 1 minute.

The Encyclopedia Britannica 1771 edition is a great source of surprises. You can access and keyword search all three volumes here – NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND Today I searched Volume 3, Keyword TARTARY and all sorts of amazing stuff came up. Here’s just a taster – WITH ALL ITS SILLY OLDE ENGLISHE S’s […]

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.