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By Gary Oswald. Cover of the current UK e-book version, picture courtesy Amazon. The exact effect the smallpox epidemics had on the native populations of the New World is a deeply contentious historical argument. This is because there are no agreed upon population counts of how many Native Americans lived in the Americas prior to European contact in 1491. Alfred Kroeber suggested a number of around eight million people, Henry Dobyns however argued the number was above one hun

By Gary Oswald. Argentina and France's national teams battle for the ball on the cover of a 1954 sports mag. Picture in public domain and courtesy wikimedia commons. Rugby Union, like a lot of sports, was first codified in the UK and as such the four home nations (England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland) have traditionally been the heartland of the game. From there it spread to France where it became popular, helped by Vichy France banning the rival Rugby League code in 1941 and

By Gary Oswald. You all know this guy. Tutankhamun's funerary mask on display in the museum in Cairo, picture courtesy wikimedia commons. So, as I think is probably clear by my contributions to this blog, I find Alternate History interesting. I find the idea of making changes to the past and seeing what results from that exciting and compelling. But I also find the much more obscure parlour game of Alternate Historiography equally interesting. With the latter, you do not chan

By Gary Oswald. A 1905 postcard from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), the capital of Portuguese Mozambique... which was a lot more recent a...

By Gary Oswald. The statue of Kimpa Vita, founder of Antonianism, in Angola. Picture courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The Kingdom of Kongo...

By Gary Oswald. Fidel Castro, photographed with fellow rebel leader Camilo Cienfuegos (left), as he enters Havana on the 9th January...

By Gary Oswald. WOS Wrestling logo, though cropped from an STV ad rather than an ITV one! Few fandoms have embraced the ‘what if’...

By Gary Oswald. A promotional image of the event; from the DHM website, copyright DWM & David von Becker. From December 2022 to January...

By D.G. Valdron Dale Cozort Jared Kavanagh Jeff Provine Edited by Gary Oswald. And if you want to read a story about this topic... This...

By D.G. Valdron Dale Cozort Jared Kavanagh Jeff Provine Edited by Gary Oswald. Domesticated bears! You know you want one. (Art by...

By Gary Oswald. The Civil Service F.C. team in 1893. A founding member of the Football Association, formed (as it said) out of...

Cover courtesy Internet Archive Aaron Burr is not the most famous of the first generation of statesmen in the USA, but he is one of the...

By Gary Oswald. The flag of Trinidad and Tobago, image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The history of most of the formerly British-ruled...

By Gary Oswald. Nought waiter Callum serves the wealthy cross elite, in the TV adaptation of Malory Blackman's Noughts & Crosses. (The...

Review by Gary Oswald Picture courtesy Amazon Murder on the Titania is a collection of five short stories all starring the same...

By Gary Oswald. A statue of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi in Mogadishu, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The Adal Sultanate was a Muslim...

By Gary Oswald Philip K Dick is, in my humble opinion, possibly the greatest writer of speculative fiction short stories to have ever...

By Gary Oswald. The flag of the Dominican Republic; picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is the sixth article in this series and the...

Review by Gary Oswald. The cover for the collected first half of Lone Star Reloaded. Cover courtesy Amazon. Quantum Leap has a lot to...

By Gary Oswald Flag of Guyana As discussed in a previous article , the British Empire in 1807 abolished the slave trade and stopped...