Cart Error
Drawer menu
Your cart (0)
Tax included and shipping calculated at checkout
Inspired by the events behind the upcoming film The Uprising, releasing on 11 September? Go beyond the big screen and uncover the extraordinary true story that changed medieval England forever.
Sign up today and instantly receive our beautifully illustrated Peasants' Revolt (1381) Infographic packed with fascinating facts, key figures, major battles, and the lasting legacy of one of history's most dramatic rebellions.
Enter your email below to get your FREE infographic instantly.
Let me start with a correction. If you have ever read that Annwn, the Welsh Otherworld, is the Welsh equivalent of Hell, you have been misinformed. It is one...
There is a particular kind of surprise that comes from encountering, in the pages of a medieval manuscript, a woman who does exactly as she pleases. Not a wo...
I want to start with a confession. When most people hear the words "Welsh mythology," they picture one of two things. Either a vague sense of dragons and dru...
The Gwylliaid Cochion Mawddwy were sixteenth-century Welsh outlaws who chose to be feared as fairies. Driven from their lands and living in the forests of Me...
There is a moment in the history of any living tradition when you can see most clearly what it is made of. Not when it is comfortable and established and sur...
Imagine descending into the earth every morning knowing that the air you breathe might kill you without warning, that the rock above your head might fall wit...
The Tylwyth Teg, Wales’s Fair Family, enforced a strict domestic contract: keep the hearth clean, leave cream on the hob, and never spy on them at work. In r...
The Plentyn-newid was Wales's supernatural explanation for childhood illness and developmental difference: a beloved child had been taken by the Tylwyth Teg ...
The Welsh fairy tradition preserved the only recorded fragment of an Otherworld language: words spoken by the Tylwyth Teg, noted by Gerald of Wales in 1191 f...
Welsh holy wells served as the primary medical and spiritual resource for medieval Welsh communities: dedicated to specific saints, each well possessed its o...
Medieval Welsh communities understood their landscape as an active, sacred participant in human life. Every spring, ancient oak, and moss-covered stone carri...
The Ellyllon were the elves of the Welsh valleys and groves: the most commonly encountered members of the Tylwyth Teg in everyday Welsh life. Tiny, elegantly...
There is a particular pleasure in reading a text that is hiding something. Not hiding it maliciously, and not hiding it completely. But holding something bac...
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae transformed the "Matter of Britain" into a grand historical epic. Spanning two thousand years—from the mythi...
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) gave medieval Britain a heroic national story, from Brutus of Troy to Arthur's golden age and the ...
Let me ask you something. When you picture a fairy, what do you see? Chances are it involves wings. Probably a sparkle or two. Perhaps a tiny glowing figure ...
We live in a world that trusts the written word. If something is not recorded, documented, or archived, we tend to assume it is lost. The idea that knowledge...
Forget everything you think you know about fairies. I mean that seriously. The image most of us carry around, tiny winged creatures trailing sparkles through...
Everyone thinks they know King Arthur. The sword in the stone. The Round Table. Guinevere and Lancelot. Merlin in his tower. Camelot gleaming on a hill. It i...
Every great mythology has a cast of characters so vivid and so human that they stay with you long after the stories end. Greek mythology has Achilles and Med...
The Bwbach was Wales's household spirit: a rough-hewn farmhouse brownie who churned the butter, tidied the hearth, and expected a bowl of good ale as his fee...
Here is a question that has fascinated me ever since I began researching Welsh mythology seriously. Why did Wales escape the witch trials? Not entirely, it i...
Every community has lines that should not be crossed. Not the lines drawn by courts and magistrates and formal legal systems, though those exist too. The oth...
The Mari Lwyd is a Welsh midwinter tradition in which a decorated horse skull, mounted on a pole, is carried door to door by a singing party. At each thresho...
The realm of myths and legends breathes life into history, transforming ancient landscapes into settings for epic tales. From the prophecies of Merlin to the...
