Gilli Allan

Artist & author of TORN, FLY or FALL, LIFE CLASS & BURIED TREASURE. Life isn't a fairy tale but loving & being loved is the best bit.

[Gilli Allan @gilliallan]

@RNAtweets #TuesNews "Loved it! At last, a romance with some meat on its bones, & a set of teeth. This story of divided love & commitment was right up my street!"
https://t.co/f7XgAFE63C #womenslit #love #England #countryboy #citygirl #abuse #escape #singlemother #conflict

[HistoryExtra @HistoryExtra]

On the podcast | Thomas Williams (@Battlescapes) challenges the traditional story told about early medieval Britain https://t.co/hj8xBpzKuQ

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

This is an important paper with a number of serious implications; however, although I am not qualified to assess the science, it is worth noting that it’s main conclusion… 1/4 https://t.co/F8sTJXjoGJ

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

Thrilled that Lost Realms has been chosen as @HistoryHit book of the month for August. #LostRealms

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

‘Nine for mortal men, doomed to die’ #LostRealms @Hatchards blog: https://t.co/4Imb51UyLr

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

#Cornwall and #Devon were once home to the reprobate King Constantine, known to the Welsh monk Gildas as the ‘tyrant whelp of the filthy lioness of Dumnonia’; Dumnonia lasted until the ninth century when it was subjugated by the West Saxons. #LostRealms

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

Coin of Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev and all the Rus (r.980-1015), featuring the trident, modern symbol of #Ukraine. Minted before the name ‘Moscow’ was ever heard (or at least written down). #UkraineIndependenceDay

[William Collins Books @WmCollinsBooks]

As Tolkien knew, Britain in the ‘Dark Ages’ was a mosaic of little kingdoms. Many of them fell by the wayside. Some vanished without a trace. Others have stories that can be told.

LOST REALMS by @Battlescapes is out now.

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

The most of these I’m yet to see in one place! @GoldsboroBooks #LostRealms

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

A real pleasure talking to @RobertElms this morning about the Dark Ages and my new book #LostRealms @BBCRadioLondon

[Gilli Allan @gilliallan]

5* from
@Telegraph "Putting Britain's Lost Kingdoms Back On the Map: ‘This brilliant history of Dark Age Britain mixes serious scholarship with nods to pop culture, from Tolkien to The Wicker Man…" #LostRealms is a joy to read’ https://t.co/xvOEUzja3H @AnnieWHistory

[The Soho Agency @TheSohoAgencyUK]

Happiest of publications to Tom Williams - Lost Realms is the new epic history of Britain's Dark Ages through nine kingdoms that hover in the twilight between #history and fable. @Battlescapes

Available online and in all good bookshops! 📚 #booksbooksbooks

[William Collins Books @WmCollinsBooks]

From the author of LOST REALMS, @Battlescapes' column is in @TheScotsman now.

https://t.co/7e2TF3CMyL

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

Lindsey, North #Lincolnshire, was hemmed in by river, sea and marsh. Its identity encompassed the gods and heroes of Northern Europe, the exploits of Arthur and early Christianity. Subject to tug of war between Mercia and Northumbria, was lost to the former in the C7 #LostRealms

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

The kingdom of Hwicce was located mostly in #Gloucestershire and #Worcestershire; it was bullied out of existence by Mercia in the eighth century. #LostRealms

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

Implied by Bede to lie ‘in regio Loidis [Leeds]’, the kingdom of Elmet in the West Riding was snuffed out at the beginning of the seventh century. Its greatest son was Gwallog, ‘who preferred a pile of the slaughtered to trickery’. #LostRealms #Elmet #Yorkshire

[Arabella Pike @ArabellaPike]

And first review is in - 5* from @Telegraph Putting Britain's Lost Kingdoms Back On the Map: ‘This brilliant history of Dark Age Britain mixes serious scholarship with nods to pop culture, from Tolkien to The Wicker Man… #LostRealms is a joy to read’ Congrats @Battlescapes

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

Lost Realms tells the stories of nine kingdoms that rose and fell in the centuries after the end of Roman Britain: Elmet, Hwicce, Lindsey, Dumnonia, Essex, Rheged, Powys and Fortriu #LostRealms out 18/08/22 @WmCollinsBooks

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

Very nice to see #LostRealms in last weekend’s @Waterstones ‘unmissable reads’ email roundup. Available to preorder here: https://t.co/dhdVOFHpKq

[Thomas Williams @Battlescapes]

Couldn’t be more delighted with the cover of #LostRealms which I am thrilled to now possess in physical form! All thanks to the amazing team @WmCollinsBooks; in shops on 18/08/22

[Gilli Allan @gilliallan]

#preorder Thomas Williams' book LOST REALMS "...about darkness, loss and forgetting, but also the hidden things found gleaming in the shadows... " Published on 18 August @HarperCollinsUK
https://t.co/eSPJL6JNna. #LostRealms #DarkAges @Battlescapes