When the world begins to break, a single road refuses to stay buried.Sir Aldric of the West is given a task that cannot fail: travel east to the city of Vareth and uncover the truth behind a growing darkness that is swallowing entire kingdoms. What begins as a mission of urgency quickly becomes a descent into something far worse than war.The land itself is changing.Roads remember what they once were. Creatures rise from beneath the earth. Shadows watch from above. A...

The monarchy of England, one of the oldest in the world, has seen a long and complex line of kings and queens since the early medieval period. Beginning with the Anglo-Saxon era, through the Norman Conquest, the Plantagenets, Tudors, Stuarts, and beyond, the English throne has passed through dynasties shaped by war, politics, and religion.The early English monarchs, such as Alfred the Great (871–899), were Saxon kings who defended their kingdoms against Viking inva...

This book is a comprehensive study of the history of pew-renting in the church of England, from the first known rented sittings in the fifteenth century to the system’s collapse in the twentieth. The book’s significance is partly its originality; no book and very few articles or portions of books have appeared solely on pew-renting since the nineteenth century, and even those of that time were not histories – they were polemical works that generally attacked pew-renting on religious ground...

This book provides new historical and ethno-linguistic evidence powerfully confirming the author’s provocative thesis, first presented in Forgotten Wolves of Wilkinaland (Archway, 2020), about the etymology of his family surname. A long hidden story, it is now revealed in the medieval Baltic region’s tense history between the Angles, Danes, Frisians, and Saxons and their sometime allies, sometime foes— the Slavic Wends (aka Polabian Slavs). The origin of the Wilk-root personal and surnames...

This book was first published in 1966. It was surprising that so small and so remote a country as Switzerland should have played such an important part in the industrial revolution on the Continent in the nineteenth century. A lack of natural resources and basic raw materials and population of 1,687,000 in 1817, faraway trade ports, and until 1848 no real central government with the administrative structure to support expansion of manufacturers. However, the people were hardworking, thrift...

English Magic and the Enchantment of England is a captivating audiobook that takes listeners on a journey through the mystical world of English magic. It begins with an introduction to the history and influence of magic in England, followed by an exploration of ancient charms, amulets, and mythical creatures like dragons. The audiobook delves into the rituals, practices, and misconceptions surrounding witchcraft, offering historical insights. With chapters on magical herbs, plants, legenda...

The prevailing explanation that all forms of Wilk/Wilkin beginning surnames being variants of “diminutive for William” or “son of diminutive for William”—and the presumption that this is of Norman in origin—is simply not accurate.J.C. (Max) Wilkinson presents this provocative thesis in his book, challening an etymological presumption that is seemingly ubiquitous, woefully incomplete, and arguably almost totally wrong for the vast majority of “Wilk” root surname lineages.Ins...