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...
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Jun 18, 202114 min
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...
Jun 14, 20219 min
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...
Mar 20, 202114 min
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...
Feb 13, 202117 min
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...
Nov 30, 20209 min
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...
Oct 28, 202010 min
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...
Sep 18, 20206 min
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...
Aug 21, 202010 min
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....
Jul 27, 202012 min
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,...
Jul 13, 202015 min
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...
Jun 29, 20207 min
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...
Jun 20, 202011 min
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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