Tyler Parsons

Vignette: Seaward Avengers

By Tyler Parsons On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

Late Qing Catastrophes: The Taiping and the West

By Tyler Parsons This is a series of articles about the Taiping Rebellion, the first summed up the Military campaign, the second the...

Late Qing Catastrophes: The West and the Second Opium War

By Tyler Parsons This is a series of articles about the Taiping Rebellion, the first summed up the Military campaign and the second the...

Late Qing Catastrophes: The Taiping (and Their Multitude of Foibles)

By Tyler Parsons As the midpoint of the nineteenth century approached, the Qing dynasty was in dire straits. China was beset with...

Late Qing Catastrophes: The Taiping Rebellion

By Tyler Parsons The middle decades of the nineteenth century were incredibly traumatic for China. For the West, the most noteworthy...

Exploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: Henry Tudor’s Hypothetical Half-Brothers

By Tyler Parsons Margaret Beaufort is an extraordinary figure at the heart of the Wars of the Roses. From her earliest infancy, as the...

Exploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: Two Kings Down, None to Go

By Tyler Parsons Richard III’s notoriety belies the fact that his reign was one of the shortest in England’s history. At two years and...

Exploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: A Year of Four Kings

By Tyler Parsons England has never had four monarchs in a single year. Well, arguably 1066, if you squint hard enough and are inclined to...

Exploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: John Neville and His Son Jilted George

By Tyler Parsons The fortunes of the House of Neville burned brightly in the middle decades of the 15th century, but it was not to last....

Exploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: King Holland

By Tyler Parsons Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter, has much in common with his brother-in-law George, Duke of Clarence. Like Clarence,...

Exploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: King George

By Tyler Parsons George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, was the middle brother of the Yorkist family, younger than Edward IV and older...

Exploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: The Other Warwick

By Tyler Parsons Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, is a seminal figure in the Wars of the Roses. Taking a central role in English...

Exploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: A Cousin for King Henry

By Tyler Parsons The Wars of the Roses were a period of dynastic conflict that gripped England from 1455 to 1487. Their causes were...

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