#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 harpercollins.co.uk/products/lost-…. #LostRealms #DarkAges Thomas Williams

Very nice to see #LostRealms in last weekend’s Waterstones ‘unmissable reads’ email roundup. Available to preorder here: waterstones.com/book/lost-real…

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 William Collins Books; in shops on 18/08/22

And first review is in - 5* from The 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 Thomas Williams

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 William Collins Books

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

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

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

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. Thomas Williams Available online and in all good bookshops! 📚 #booksbooksbooks

From the author of LOST REALMS, Thomas Williams' column is in The Scotsman now. scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

5* from The 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’ waterstones.com/book/lost-real… Annie Whitehead Author FRHistS

A real pleasure talking to Robert Elms this morning about the Dark Ages and my new book #LostRealms BBC Radio London

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 Thomas Williams is out now.

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

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

#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

‘Nine for mortal men, doomed to die’ #LostRealms Hatchards blog: hatchards.co.uk/lost-realms-bl…

Thrilled that Lost Realms has been chosen as History Hit💥 book of the month for August. #LostRealms

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 nature.com/articles/s4158…

On the podcast | Thomas Williams (Thomas Williams) challenges the traditional story told about early medieval Britain bit.ly/3gGFtCb