Jun 910 minAfrica During the Scramble: Guns of the SothoBy Gary Oswald Henry Bartle Frere was recalled to London in August 1880 by the new Gladstone ministry to answer for having launched an...
May 2511 minAfrica During the Scramble: The Spider in the WebBy Gary Oswald British Policy towards Southern Africa was always somewhat hot and cold, depending on who was in Power in London, in terms...
May 1610 minAfrica During the Scramble: The Worst Mistake in Human HistoryBy Gary Oswald In 1856, the Xhosa people of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of modern South Africa committed possibly the single...
May 1114 minAfrica During the Scramble: The Kat River ExperimentBy Gary Oswald One of the most shocking things about the Scramble of Africa was its speed. In less than 40 years, Africa went from mostly...
Apr 2715 minAfrica During the Scramble: Four Months in BerlinBy Gary Oswald The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 is probably the best known and most taught moment of the Scramble of Africa. It was a...
Apr 209 minAfrica During the Scramble: The Years without FoodBy Gary Oswald Between 1500 and 1820, Africa’s population declined relative to that of the rest of the world due a combination of booming...
Apr 183 minReview: EverfairBy Gary Oswald Everfair by Nisi Shawl, is a book that I knew I had to buy as soon as I saw the concept. Which is 'what if the Congo Free...
Apr 1313 minAfrica During the Scramble: A French IndiaBy Gary Oswald In 1914, Blaise Diagne became the first entirely ethnically black African to be elected to a European parliament when he...
Apr 613 minAfrica During the Scramble: The Reality behind 'The Woman King'By Gary Oswald The first articles I ever wrote for this site were a three part series looking at the Kingdom of Dahomey in modern day...
Mar 3119 minAfrica During the Scramble: The Black NapoleonBy Gary Oswald The African Polities of the late 19th century threw up more than their fair share of brilliant military leaders and...
Mar 177 minCan you write an historical story ignoring War?By Gary Oswald It’s not exactly insightful to say that Historical Fiction, Alternate History included, is obsessed with war, and there...
Mar 210 minAfrica During the Scramble: The not so Free TownsBy Gary Oswald As previously discussed, Sierra Leone began as a utopian private project wherein the black poor of Europe and North...
Dec 31, 20218 minAlternate History as a Political TractBy Gary Oswald Politics is innately concerned with Alternate History. When your party wins an election and then you have to go back four...
Sep 6, 20214 minThe Hour of the WolfeBy Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Jul 16, 20215 min'Axis of Andes' reviewBy Gary Oswald Amateur AH exists for the same reason any amateur writing does. Partly because people just like to write in a relatively...
Feb 20, 20219 minMan’s Holy CauseBy Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Feb 15, 20218 minPrequel Problems: Brian Michael Bendis' Shared World AdventuresBy Gary Oswald Brian Michael Bendis is an American Comic Writer who has written and drawn numerous comic books over the last 30 years. He...
Jan 29, 202119 minAfrica During the Scramble: The Settler's RepublicBy Gary Oswald The coastal people of modern day Liberia and Sierra Leone, especially those who spoke one of the Kru languages, had done...
Jan 23, 202117 minAfrica During the Scramble: Prodigal SonsBy Gary Oswald Prior to the 19th Century, white people were rare in Africa. Residents in the big slaving ports would be used to white...
Jan 15, 202116 minAfrica During the Scramble: The BlockadeBy Gary Oswald It is estimated that in the 1780s less than a quarter of the human world was what we would consider free. The rest were...