Earthedge is set in England in the 1960s, but an England in which King Edward 8th never abdicated, electricity has not replaced steam, the Realm has waged three recent wars with the USA, and all scholarship must be approved by the all-powerful Royal and Ancient Academy of Knowledge. The Chancellor of the Academy, Lord Edmund of Muckyheath, harbours a dark secret, however, a secret which all his predecessors have concealed for five hundred years. It’s a secret which if revealed will utterly destroy the Academy’s credibility, and a secret which an upstart school teacher is determined to now tell the world. If the Chancellor doesn’t kill him first, that is.