Microfiction from the SLP Community: Part 5
By Gary Oswald, Ishan Sharma and Lilith Roberts One of the most common forms of microfiction you find on AH forums is the wikibox, an...
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- Feb 8
- 21 min
Microfiction from the SLP Community: Part 1
By Gary Oswald, Mark Tentarelli, Bob Mumby and Charles EP Murphy Sea Lion Press has always had the aim of providing a platform for...
- Jan 18
- 13 min
Caribbean Cold War: The Other Iron Lady
By Gary Oswald Unlike many of its neighbours, the Commonwealth of Dominica was granted independence as a republic, with a President...
- Dec 14, 2022
- 15 min
Caribbean Cold War: The Revolution eats itself
By Gary Oswald There is nothing particularly unusual about the history of Grenada. It had been conquered by Europeans in the 17th...
- Dec 7, 2022
- 10 min
Caribbean Cold War: Anguilla vs the Empire
By Gary Oswald As discussed in the previous article of this series, the failure of the West Indies Federation of all of the UK's...
- Nov 30, 2022
- 9 min
Caribbean Cold War: Drinking Beer with the CIA
By Gary Oswald The Caribbean, and in particular the lesser Antilles, are mostly known in the west as peaceful tourist traps, where...
- Nov 9, 2022
- 4 min
Alternate History: X,Y,Z
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
- Oct 26, 2022
- 13 min
Africa Without the Scramble
By Gary Oswald I have written on and off about Africa during the 19th century on this blog for about three years in around 40 articles...
- Oct 19, 2022
- 6 min
Alternate History: V,W
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
- Oct 13, 2022
- 5 min
Alternate History: S,T,U
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
- Oct 11, 2022
- 9 min
Africa During the Scramble: The First Dominos
By Gary Oswald In 1830 France invaded Algiers, which had long been a centre of Islamic piracy and where French merchants did significant...
- Oct 5, 2022
- 4 min
Alternate History: P,Q,R
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
- Sep 30, 2022
- 10 min
Africa During the Scramble: The Rebellion that Didn't Happen
By Gary Oswald The Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania are a nomadic group of cattle herders in the Great Rift Valley. Traditionally,...
- Sep 28, 2022
- 4 min
Alternate History: M,N,O
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
- Sep 26, 2022
- 8 min
Europe During the Scramble: Voting on Empire
By Gary Oswald In 1907, the German Empire in Africa consisted of four territories. German South West Africa, German East Africa, German...
- Sep 22, 2022
- 5 min
Alternate History: J,K,L
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
- Sep 9, 2022
- 16 min
Africa During the Scramble: Scorch the Earth
By Gary Oswald In 1885 German gunships pulled into the Omani island of Zanzibar and demanded that the Sultan of Zanzibar, Barghash bin...
- Sep 6, 2022
- 8 min
Alternate History: G,H,I
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
- Sep 2, 2022
- 6 min
Vignette: Delenda Est
By Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
- Aug 31, 2022
- 13 min
Africa During the Scramble: The World's Oldest Alliance
By Gary Oswald In 1386, John I of Portugal and Richard II of England agreed the Treaty of Westminster. That treaty established a pact of...
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