Jasper Brayford

Jasper Brayford (born 24 May 1914) was a historian, novelist, journalist, and translator. He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and studied in Hull and Oxford. He held a DPhil in Modern History from Oxford University. After living and working in London and Cambridge in the 1950s - 70's he lived in Leeds where he died in 1989.
Movinan Histories
The Movinan Histories are fictional histories, which Brayford used in his psychohistory lectures (1963-88), as examples of how the laws of statistics if applied to large groups of people could predict the general flow of future events. The Histories and stories chronicle, a people’s progress on the fictional continent of Eothena (Movina) and it’s surrounding islands, the work includes a Time-line of Eothena and several biogs of major cities and regions.
The Four Periods of the Movina People
The First period of Movina is dominated by the growth of the city of Eothen and the Eothena society and it’s natural progressive quest for a civil and ordered world that evolves over a twelve hundred years until it’s collapse into uncontrollable dark-age. Most of the events of the First period take place in the continent of Eothena, which was later to become Movina mainland.
The Second period of Movina was the age of reorder and control by the developing lands of Temporisland and the Opongo Islands. After the fall of the Eothena continent ‘which is ruled by several conflicting Monarchs’ the known world began a slow process of forging a larger a more flexible society. This was the age of reasoning and questioning, an age of great writers, thinkers and teachers and also the growth of the cult system.
The Third period was dominated by the Ombrillion oppressive Power, and in particular the sacking of the Opongo political system. It was also the age when the Eothena continent (now called Movina) began once more to re-establish it’s self has a united, civil and powerful society and beat back the Ombrillion power.

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