The history behind the stories
Notes on the worlds of Owain Morgan and Eliza Turner and the history that shaped them.
Art as Witness
Eliza Turner
How art, attention, and witness helped expose the hidden realities of industrial Britain.
A University That Never Existed
Owain Morgan
The story of University College Morlan, and the real intellectual traditions of late Victorian Wales.
Service and Silence
Eliza Turner
Exploring the life of servants in late nineteenth century London through Eliza Turner in Unseen Souls.
Thought, Silence, and Meaning
Owain Morgan
William James stream of thought, and how meaning emerges in what lies behind words.
The Sound of the Furnace
Eliza Turner
A working day in nineteenth-century Dowlais that shapes the world of Unseen Souls.
The Weight of a Word
Owain Morgan
How a phrase could alter history - the linguistic tensions behind The Silence of the White Shadow.
Dolwyddelan Castle
Owain Morgan
The castle and its real and imagined history in The Silence of the White Shadow.
The Making of Dowlais
Eliza Turner
How a quiet upland community was transformed by Industrialisation.
William Blake’s Inner World
Owain Morgan
How William Blake influenced the thinking of Professor Owain Morgan.
The Dolwyddelan Codex
Owain Morgan
A fictional manuscript that raises questions about history, truth, and interpretation.
Motive and Self-Deception
Owain Morgan
How ideas from great thinkers shape Owain Morgan’s understanding of human behaviour.
What is History?
Historical Context
Is it an interpretation of ‘facts? or a record shaped as much by the present as by the past?
Stories That Remain
Historical Context
What happens when fictional characters begin to feel real and imagined lives continue after the story ends.
The Human Thread
Historical Context
My interest is not in history per se but in the people who shape how we see, remember, and live.