Where the search continues.
Here you’ll find field notes, essays, photographs, historical discoveries, and ideas still taking shape. Some become books. Others simply deepen my understanding of the people and places that continue to fascinate me.
Where the Light Falls
It’s not really about photography. It’s about paying attention to the important things around us.
The Lilies in the Woods
What a walk reminded me about familiarity, attention, and the surprises hidden in familiar places.
Fault Lines
The hidden pressures, fears, and ambitions that reveal the fault lines within human character.
The Independent Path
Today is a milestone moment for me and how I will distribute my work in future.
Art as Witness
How art, attention, and witness helped expose the hidden realities of industrial Britain.
A Fictional University
The story of University College Morlan, and the real intellectual traditions of late Victorian Wales.
Service and Silence
Exploring the life of servants in late nineteenth century London through Eliza Turner in Unseen Souls.
The Sound of the Furnace
A working day in nineteenth-century Dowlais that shapes the world of Unseen Souls.
The Weight of a Word
How a phrase could alter history - the linguistic tensions behind The Silence of the White Shadow.
Dolwyddelan Castle
The castle and its real and imagined history in The Silence of the White Shadow.
The Making of Dowlais
How a quiet rural upland community was radically transformed by Industrialisation.
Blake’s Inner World
How the enigmatic William Blake influenced the thinking of Professor Owain Morgan.
The Dolwyddelan Codex
A fictional manuscript that raises questions about history, truth, and interpretation.
Motive and Self-Deception
How ideas from great thinkers shape Owain Morgan’s understanding of human behaviour.
What is History?
Is it an interpretation of ‘facts? or a record shaped as much by the present as by the past?
Stories That Remain
When fictional characters begin to feel real and imagined lives continue after the story ends.
The Human Thread
My interest is not in history per se but in the people who shape how we see, remember, and live.
Moel Siabod Hike
After days of seemingly endless rain, we ventured up our local mountain to enjoy the spectacular landscape.