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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...

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...

By Tom Anderson How a Scotsman’s Alcoholism and an Englishman’s Bad Aim Created Modern Children’s Literature Kenneth Grahame was, as one...

By Tom Anderson On June 28th 1914, Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the...

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...

By Tom Anderson I recently mentioned on social media that on this day (then November 4th) Túpac Amaru II had launched his uprising in...

By Tom Anderson The last few articles in this series have mostly focused on the idea of a neat progression of frontline naval technology...

By Tom Anderson When dramatic political events take place, it is common for analysts to speculate on just what sowed the seeds for them....

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

By Tom Anderson The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper with a generally left-wing and pro-Labour Party editorial position, which...

By Tom Anderson Although the details had changed, much of the basic principles of naval warfare had remained quite static for centuries...

By Tom Anderson William Jennings Bryan was one of the most influential figures in American political history, despite failing to win the...

By Tom Anderson Ask a writer—certainly an Anglophone one—which era they immediately picture when they hear the words ‘naval fiction, and...

By Tom Anderson In my Consequences in Alternate History articles, I’ve described chains of happenstance occurrences that have led from a...

By Tom Anderson In previous articles in this series, we looked at naval history through the topics of the Mediterranean galley, and then...

By Tom Anderson An Alternate History Consequences article It is no great revelation to reflect that elements of works of fiction may not...

By Tom Anderson In the first part of this multi-part article, I looked at the millennia-long history of the Mediterranean galley as a...

By Tom Anderson CAT: Wait, I know this game. It's called cat and mouse, and there's only one way to win; don't be the mouse! LISTER: What...

By Tom Anderson The men and women who go to sea have always captured the human imagination. Some nations, often island nations such as...

By Tom Anderson Habeas Corpus, Latin for ‘you have to have the body’, is one of the most celebrated fundamental principles of liberty in...