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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...
Nov 19, 201911 min read
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...
Nov 17, 20198 min read
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...
Nov 12, 20197 min read
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...
Nov 5, 20198 min read
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....
Oct 29, 201911 min read
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...
Oct 22, 201910 min read
Chains of Consequences: How the Daily Mirror Created the iPhone (and Saved the Lenin Museum)
By Tom Anderson The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper with a generally left-wing and pro-Labour Party editorial position, which...
Oct 15, 20196 min read
Alternate Terminology – Naval Gazing Part 5: Steam and Steel
By Tom Anderson Although the details had changed, much of the basic principles of naval warfare had remained quite static for centuries...
Oct 8, 201911 min read
Chains of Consequences: How William Jennings Bryan Caused A Jeb Bush Gaffe
By Tom Anderson William Jennings Bryan was one of the most influential figures in American political history, despite failing to win the...
Oct 1, 20196 min read
Alternate Terminology – Naval Gazing Part 4: The Wooden World
By Tom Anderson Ask a writer—certainly an Anglophone one—which era they immediately picture when they hear the words ‘naval fiction, and...
Sep 24, 20199 min read
Consequences – Forgotten Influences: Edgar Wallace
By Tom Anderson In my Consequences in Alternate History articles, I’ve described chains of happenstance occurrences that have led from a...
Sep 17, 20197 min read
Alternate Terminology: Naval Gazing Part 3 - Flags at Sea
By Tom Anderson In previous articles in this series, we looked at naval history through the topics of the Mediterranean galley, and then...
Sep 10, 20199 min read
The Clark Kent Problem: How Changing Assumptions Create Plot Holes In Long-Running Fiction
By Tom Anderson An Alternate History Consequences article It is no great revelation to reflect that elements of works of fiction may not...
Sep 3, 201910 min read
Alternate Terminology: Naval Gazing, Part 2
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...
Aug 20, 20199 min read
German Soldiers, Jamaican Rebels, Eggnog Cocktails, and the Bible: The Origins of “Tom and Jerry”
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...
Aug 13, 20196 min read
Alternate Terminology: Naval Gazing, Part 1
By Tom Anderson The men and women who go to sea have always captured the human imagination. Some nations, often island nations such as...
Aug 6, 20197 min read
Chains of Consequences: How the Principle of Habeas Corpus comes from a Seventeenth Century Fat Joke
By Tom Anderson Habeas Corpus, Latin for ‘you have to have the body’, is one of the most celebrated fundamental principles of liberty in...
Jul 30, 20196 min read
Alternate Terminology: Rosettes, Cockades and Revolutionary Flags
By Tom Anderson The origins of political party colours were briefly mentioned in my previous article on the origins of ideological names....
Jul 23, 20196 min read
Consequences in Alternate History: Whither the Weather
By Tom Anderson Masters of the near miss, (“‘Constant sunshine’? Three-foot drifts!”) Masters of the half-truth, (“Anybody ‘ere seen my...
Jul 16, 20196 min read
Alternate Terminology: Flying High – Air Force Roundels
By Tom Anderson One of the most recognisable symbols of modern militaries is the insignia displayed on aircraft. Just in the UK for...
Jul 9, 20198 min read
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