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.”

The Empire of Trebizond

Monday, 31 December 2018, 12:08.Reading time 1 minute.

I am fascinated by the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus I Comnenus right now. I think he holds the keys to unlock much research. Andronicus was born 1152 and executed 1185. In Constantinople. You will hardly find a good thing said about him in today’s Information Highway. But this is another matter! After his execution […]

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.