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Welcome to the official website of G. J. Wade, historian, author, and lecturer. Here, you can explore historical mysteries inspired by Britain's forgotten past, as well as articles and lectures about The Willoughby Papers and the real people, places, and events that have shaped our history.
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The Glyndŵr Chronicle
The record was broken. Not by time, but by design.
In the summer of 1967 historian, H. A. Willoughby, begins his most ambitious investigation yet: discovering what became of Owain Glyndŵr, the last native, medieval Prince of Wales.
For more than five centuries, the answer has remained a mystery. No grave. No surrender. No final account.
From the archives of London to the valleys of mid-Wales and the ancient abbey of Strata Florida, Willoughby follows the traces of a forgotten medieval chronicle and begins to suspect that the silence surrounding Glyndŵr's final years may conceal far more than history has remembered.
Some histories disappear. Others are hidden.
New Book Released Summer 2026
The Fortitude File
February 1944. RAF Mosquitos strike Amiens Prison in one of the most daring raids of the Second World War.
More than twenty years later, historian H. A. Willoughby uncovers evidence that the raid may have concealed a far deeper secret. As forgotten documents emerge from neglected archives and wartime files resurface, he finds himself following the trail of a resistance network that official history barely remembers.
What begins as an investigation into Operation Jericho soon leads Willoughby into the shadow world of deception, espionage, and Operation Fortitude, the elaborate scheme that helped pave the way for D-Day.
Some resistance networks were not meant to survive.