Telling Time

Owain Gwynedd

I am very pleased to share the news that I have recently had an entry on Owain Gwynedd published in the World History Encyclopaedia. A link to the entry can be found below.
What is to be done with those who dragged their feet?

Reflections on reputation control in the darkest hours of a genocide, and how we move forward in a world ran by those with blood on their hands.
What Is the ‘Giant Looming Credit Event’ and What Does It Mean for My Klarna Burrito?

In 2008, a financial crisis began in the world’s largest economy — a crisis caused by a speculative asset bubble, predatory lending, excessive leverage, and a lack of regulatory oversight. This crisis rippled across the world, ultimately causing the most severe economic downturn the world had seen since the Great Depression. What did we learn?
The Biggest Small Thing You Can Do

The month of April is only a little more than half done, yet it’s already showed itself to be a month of particularly bleak news. In the UK, the Supreme Court bowed to the interests of lobbyists and special interest groups by ratifying that the legal definition of ‘woman’ now excludes trans women, clearing the…
Trump’s Israel Policy: How ‘Bad History’ Shapes Politics

What is ‘bad history’, and what dangers does it pose to international politics? A look at ‘Biblical Rights’, Zionism, the Crusades, and how they all influence the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
Stone and Steel

Immense wings clapped overhead. The pale sun fought to glow through the dense cloud that hung low above the plain. Zanthamor heaved his great legs, fighting as his feet were swallowed by the damp, red dirt. Under his plate he was boiling alive. Great rivulets of fire streamed across the battlefield, the flames towering above…
What Was The Livonian Rhymed Chronicle?

Most medieval European chronicles share a fairly common formula. You’d be forgiven for confusing one with another, forgetting their names, ignoring their details. Yet the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle sits so far outside the norm of a typical chronicle that it demands close attention. So what makes the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle so special?
Shadows in the Depths

The torch’s light was shrinking. It cast little more than a few feet of orange through the caverns. Beyond that lay seemingly eternal darkness, stretching and winding through the earth. Despair was chipping at their spirits. Hope’s faint flame was going the way of the torch. Even in the face of this looming threat, their…
Anglo-Saxons, Racists, Instagram Reels

The weaponisation of history is nothing novel. It has always been, unfortunately, almost inseparable from history itself. As long as the study of the past has existed, so too have people that will dig up the past and invoke chosen aspects to support their own aims, ideals, or views. Even today we are still shaking…
An Italian Egyptian in Croatia: Who was the Zagreb Mummy?

Some time around 1848, a man named Mihajlo Barić found himself in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Few records on the details of Barić’s life remain. By the time he died in 1859, no one could have guessed the accidental contribution he had already unwittingly made to history. What we do know, is that during…