John E. Rees
@johnerees.com
Historical fiction & essays • Memory, psychology & the human thread • Author of Unseen Souls • Creator of the Professor Owain Morgan Mysteries • johnerees.com
A human life was lost.
Compassion was absent.
Certainty arrived immediately.
I’ve written about belief, power, and what happens when people become disposable.
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Compassion was absent.
Certainty arrived immediately.
I’ve written about belief, power, and what happens when people become disposable.
bit.ly/3LlVSv6
A Death Without Compassion — JOHN E. REES
When power rushes to certainty before evidence — and compassion is treated as expendable — belief replaces thought, and a human life disappears from view.
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January 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
A human life was lost.
Compassion was absent.
Certainty arrived immediately.
I’ve written about belief, power, and what happens when people become disposable.
bit.ly/3LlVSv6
Compassion was absent.
Certainty arrived immediately.
I’ve written about belief, power, and what happens when people become disposable.
bit.ly/3LlVSv6
Owain Morgan works at a moment when morality, psychology, and authority are quietly coming apart.
Sounds familiar?
The Silence of the White Shadow explores what happens when new ways of understanding the mind collide with institutions built on certainty.
#HistoricalFiction #OwainMorgan
Sounds familiar?
The Silence of the White Shadow explores what happens when new ways of understanding the mind collide with institutions built on certainty.
#HistoricalFiction #OwainMorgan
January 9, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Owain Morgan works at a moment when morality, psychology, and authority are quietly coming apart.
Sounds familiar?
The Silence of the White Shadow explores what happens when new ways of understanding the mind collide with institutions built on certainty.
#HistoricalFiction #OwainMorgan
Sounds familiar?
The Silence of the White Shadow explores what happens when new ways of understanding the mind collide with institutions built on certainty.
#HistoricalFiction #OwainMorgan
Socrates asked awkward questions.
Powerful people got uncomfortable.
He was executed for “corrupting the youth” — effectively, encouraging free thought.
A crime that has never gone out of fashion.
#Philosophy #CriticalThinking #socrates
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Powerful people got uncomfortable.
He was executed for “corrupting the youth” — effectively, encouraging free thought.
A crime that has never gone out of fashion.
#Philosophy #CriticalThinking #socrates
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The Dangerous Art of Asking Questions — JOHN E. REES
Growing up in south Wales, I never accepted what anyone told me at face value. I always wanted to know why . If it rained for days on end — which it frequently seemed to do — I wanted to know what ca...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Socrates asked awkward questions.
Powerful people got uncomfortable.
He was executed for “corrupting the youth” — effectively, encouraging free thought.
A crime that has never gone out of fashion.
#Philosophy #CriticalThinking #socrates
bit.ly/4qtLNM1
Powerful people got uncomfortable.
He was executed for “corrupting the youth” — effectively, encouraging free thought.
A crime that has never gone out of fashion.
#Philosophy #CriticalThinking #socrates
bit.ly/4qtLNM1
Stories are memory’s way of surviving.
That’s why I write — to carry the human thread across time.
It’s why real people and real events are woven into my novels.
That’s why I write — to carry the human thread across time.
It’s why real people and real events are woven into my novels.
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Stories are memory’s way of surviving.
That’s why I write — to carry the human thread across time.
It’s why real people and real events are woven into my novels.
That’s why I write — to carry the human thread across time.
It’s why real people and real events are woven into my novels.
In 1845, Dowlais Ironworks ran 18 blast furnaces & employed 7,000 people - the biggest in the world at the time.
Smoke-thick air.
Cramped cottages.
Children working from the age of ten.
That is where my novel Unseen Souls begins.
#dowlais #historicalfiction #industrialrevolution
Smoke-thick air.
Cramped cottages.
Children working from the age of ten.
That is where my novel Unseen Souls begins.
#dowlais #historicalfiction #industrialrevolution
January 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
In 1845, Dowlais Ironworks ran 18 blast furnaces & employed 7,000 people - the biggest in the world at the time.
Smoke-thick air.
Cramped cottages.
Children working from the age of ten.
That is where my novel Unseen Souls begins.
#dowlais #historicalfiction #industrialrevolution
Smoke-thick air.
Cramped cottages.
Children working from the age of ten.
That is where my novel Unseen Souls begins.
#dowlais #historicalfiction #industrialrevolution
Who decides what counts as history?
I revisited E.H. Carr while finishing a historical novel and found his ideas disturbingly relevant to our present moment.
#history #writing #criticalThinking #MediaLiteracy #HistoricalMemory #politics #ideas
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I revisited E.H. Carr while finishing a historical novel and found his ideas disturbingly relevant to our present moment.
#history #writing #criticalThinking #MediaLiteracy #HistoricalMemory #politics #ideas
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History Isn’t Objective — and Pretending It Is Is Dangerous — JOHN E. REES
I’ve recently completed my second historical fiction novel, The Silence of the White Shadow , set in Victorian Britain. That means my desk — and my head — are cluttered with research: industrial...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Who decides what counts as history?
I revisited E.H. Carr while finishing a historical novel and found his ideas disturbingly relevant to our present moment.
#history #writing #criticalThinking #MediaLiteracy #HistoricalMemory #politics #ideas
bit.ly/4pIaZ0J
I revisited E.H. Carr while finishing a historical novel and found his ideas disturbingly relevant to our present moment.
#history #writing #criticalThinking #MediaLiteracy #HistoricalMemory #politics #ideas
bit.ly/4pIaZ0J
Christmas 1896.
Dolwyddelan Castle in North Wales.
Lord Jeremiah de Haersbie unveils the Dolwyddelan Codex — a manuscript that unsettles the accepted history of English dominion over Wales.
What follows is neither orderly nor expected.
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#Wales #HistoricalFiction
Dolwyddelan Castle in North Wales.
Lord Jeremiah de Haersbie unveils the Dolwyddelan Codex — a manuscript that unsettles the accepted history of English dominion over Wales.
What follows is neither orderly nor expected.
bit.ly/4pNwwFo
#Wales #HistoricalFiction
The Silence of the White Shadow: A Casebook of Owain Morgan Mystery
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December 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Christmas 1896.
Dolwyddelan Castle in North Wales.
Lord Jeremiah de Haersbie unveils the Dolwyddelan Codex — a manuscript that unsettles the accepted history of English dominion over Wales.
What follows is neither orderly nor expected.
bit.ly/4pNwwFo
#Wales #HistoricalFiction
Dolwyddelan Castle in North Wales.
Lord Jeremiah de Haersbie unveils the Dolwyddelan Codex — a manuscript that unsettles the accepted history of English dominion over Wales.
What follows is neither orderly nor expected.
bit.ly/4pNwwFo
#Wales #HistoricalFiction
There's so much going on in the world and if you're like me, it's very easy to yearn for a better tomorrow or even wish some things in the past had worked out differently. Maybe I think too much :-) ...http://bit.ly/4mFHxWI
The Future Never Arrives — JOHN E. REES
We spend much of our lives waiting. Waiting for the right time, the next opportunity, the moment when life will finally begin. But here’s the hard truth: the future never arrives. When it comes, it is...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
There's so much going on in the world and if you're like me, it's very easy to yearn for a better tomorrow or even wish some things in the past had worked out differently. Maybe I think too much :-) ...http://bit.ly/4mFHxWI
weirdly, one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers ended his days twenty minutes from where I live. His questions are still mine — and ours.
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Bertrand Russell Warned Us About Fools and Fanatics — We Should Listen Now — JOHN E. REES
I’ve been interested in philosophy and the meaning of life for decades. One philosopher I admire greatly is Bertrand Russell . The more I learn about his life, the more I notice small, unexpected par...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
weirdly, one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers ended his days twenty minutes from where I live. His questions are still mine — and ours.
bit.ly/423ptyv
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Hi, I’m John — new here & a new author. I grew up in a South Wales mining village and later spent 40+ years in corporate life. Now I’m writing the stories I always wanted to tell, shaped by both worlds. My debut novel 'Unseen Souls' is the first step. Happy to connect with like-minded people
September 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hi, I’m John — new here & a new author. I grew up in a South Wales mining village and later spent 40+ years in corporate life. Now I’m writing the stories I always wanted to tell, shaped by both worlds. My debut novel 'Unseen Souls' is the first step. Happy to connect with like-minded people