Marion S Greenwood

The History of Britain We Were Never Taught. For generations, we've been told that the story of Britain was forged entirely on dry land-marching from Roman roads to Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, completely insulated from the rest of the world. But history is wrong. The Making of Wales shatters this illusion of isolation, turning your gaze from the green valleys to the volatile waves of the Irish Sea. For centuries, this body of water wasn't a barrier-it was a fast-moving maritime superhighway.
In this gripping, meticulously researched epic, discover how Wales was truly shaped by the currents of the wider world. Travel through a forgotten landscape of invite-only Irish migrations, high-stakes Viking slave markets, secret Jacobite pirate networks, and the global colonial empires built on Welsh wool, copper, and slate. Combining cutting-edge modern science-from archaeogenetics to dental isotope analysis-with extraordinary historical records, this book completely redefines the history of the British Isles.
This isn't just the history of a nation. It is the hidden, breathless story of the Western Sea-and it will change the way you look at the atlas forever.