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    Chains of Consequences: Musical Windows on the Past
    • Feb 24, 2020
    • 8 min

    Chains of Consequences: Musical Windows on the Past

    By Tom Anderson Song lyrics and band names reveal clues about the past. This should be obvious, on the face of it. Naturally bands take...
    Chains of Consequences: How British Wartime Evacuation Created Top Gear
    • Feb 17, 2020
    • 8 min

    Chains of Consequences: How British Wartime Evacuation Created Top Gear

    By Tom Anderson As the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British government knew that it would become necessary to...
    Chains of Consequences: How Princess Diana’s Great-Great-Grandfather Created Grand Theft Auto
    • Feb 10, 2020
    • 10 min

    Chains of Consequences: How Princess Diana’s Great-Great-Grandfather Created Grand Theft Auto

    By Tom Anderson The eyes of the world were turned to Paris on August 31st, 1997, when Diana, Princess of Wales died from injuries...
    Naval Gazing 12: Cold Warriors
    • Feb 3, 2020
    • 12 min

    Naval Gazing 12: Cold Warriors

    By Tom Anderson As the Second World War ended, the Cold War began. The Soviet Union and the Western Allies had always been uneasy...
    Chains of Consequence - Jazz, Charlie Brown, and Maths: The Strange Origins of ‘Google’
    • Jan 27, 2020
    • 7 min

    Chains of Consequence - Jazz, Charlie Brown, and Maths: The Strange Origins of ‘Google’

    By Tom Anderson THE sun is setting— Can’t you hear A something in the distance Howl!!? I wonder if it’s— Yes!! it is That horrid Google...
    Consequences: A Jumbo Article
    • Jan 20, 2020
    • 7 min

    Consequences: A Jumbo Article

    By Tom Anderson In May 2016, a child climbed into a zoo enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and was grabbed and dragged...
    Consequences: Profundity, Mistranslation and Crystallised Phrases
    • Jan 14, 2020
    • 8 min

    Consequences: Profundity, Mistranslation and Crystallised Phrases

    By Tom Anderson Some years ago, when I was in the final stages of writing up my PhD thesis, I decided I needed a suitably...
    Naval Gazing 11: The Ill-Named Pacific War
    • Jan 7, 2020
    • 12 min

    Naval Gazing 11: The Ill-Named Pacific War

    By Tom Anderson The name ‘Pacific’ Ocean means ‘Peaceful’; it was so named by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 because he found favourable...
    Consequences: Calendar Club and Happy New Year
    • Dec 31, 2019
    • 8 min

    Consequences: Calendar Club and Happy New Year

    By Tom Anderson “Did you hear about the man who stole a calendar? He got twelve months.” – old Christmas cracker joke​ Since the dawn of...
    Consequences: The Royal Family and a Very British Christmas
    • Dec 24, 2019
    • 10 min

    Consequences: The Royal Family and a Very British Christmas

    By Tom Anderson Christmas is a festival which has reached around the world, and given birth to a host of different traditions in...
    Naval Gazing Part 10 – World War 2: Electric Boogaloo
    • Dec 17, 2019
    • 12 min

    Naval Gazing Part 10 – World War 2: Electric Boogaloo

    By Tom Anderson World War II has, for understandable reasons, left a long shadow on our cultural memory. Not only the greatest war the...
    Consequences in Alternate History: How an Egyptian Policeman’s Bullet Created a British Icon
    • Dec 10, 2019
    • 10 min

    Consequences in Alternate History: How an Egyptian Policeman’s Bullet Created a British Icon

    By Tom Anderson In my previous ‘Consequences’ article, I described how the near miss of a gunman led to the writing of The Wind in the...
    Naval Gazing, Part 9: Interwar Intrigues
    • Dec 3, 2019
    • 10 min

    Naval Gazing, Part 9: Interwar Intrigues

    By Tom Anderson World War One was said to be ‘the war to end all wars’. The fact that we now have to append a number to it is testament...
    Consequences in Alternate History: Across the Wild Wood
    • Nov 26, 2019
    • 7 min

    Consequences in Alternate History: Across the Wild Wood

    By Tom Anderson How a Scotsman’s Alcoholism and an Englishman’s Bad Aim Created Modern Children’s Literature Kenneth Grahame was, as one...
    Alternate Terminology: Naval Gazing, Part 8 - The Not-So-Great War
    • Nov 19, 2019
    • 11 min

    Alternate Terminology: Naval Gazing, Part 8 - The Not-So-Great War

    By Tom Anderson On June 28th 1914, Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the...
    An Introduction to the “Look to the West” Series
    • Nov 17, 2019
    • 8 min

    An Introduction to the “Look to the West” Series

    By Tom Anderson In January 2007 I first began writing and posting a project I called “Look to the West”, my first ‘proper’ attempt at a...
    Consequences in Alternate History: The Garibaldi Problem
    • Nov 12, 2019
    • 7 min

    Consequences in Alternate History: The Garibaldi Problem

    By Tom Anderson I recently mentioned on social media that on this day (then November 4th) Túpac Amaru II had launched his uprising in...
    Naval Gazing Part 7: We’re All Sunk By A Battle Submarine
    • Nov 5, 2019
    • 8 min

    Naval Gazing Part 7: We’re All Sunk By A Battle Submarine

    By Tom Anderson The last few articles in this series have mostly focused on the idea of a neat progression of frontline naval technology...
    Consequences in AH: How the Scottish Liberal Democrats caused Brexit
    • Oct 29, 2019
    • 11 min

    Consequences in AH: How the Scottish Liberal Democrats caused Brexit

    By Tom Anderson When dramatic political events take place, it is common for analysts to speculate on just what sowed the seeds for them....
    Alternate Terminologies: Naval Gazing Part 6- DREADNOUGHT!
    • Oct 22, 2019
    • 10 min

    Alternate Terminologies: Naval Gazing Part 6- DREADNOUGHT!

    By Tom Anderson As discussed in the previous article in this series, the second half of the 19th century saw rapid advancement in naval...
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