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.”

Canada and Alaska

Tuesday, 8 January 2019, 12:51.Reading time 1 minute.

This picture is from the 1771 Encyclopedia Britannica. I found it quite strange that Alaska and environs is catalogued as “Parts Undiscovered.” In the late 18th century? Europeans knew NOTHING about these vast lands? I know from centuries ago at school that Russia sold/ceded/gave (?) Alaska to Canada but that is all. Did this part […]

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.