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By Tom Anderson ’Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now...ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh. When I first heard his...

By Alexander Wallace As alternate history continues its slow lurch into the mainstream it becomes clearer and clearer to me that the...

By Alex Richards With the collapse of the Saxon armies in 1639, Banér had removed the last block to an all-out invasion of the Habsburg...

By Adam Selby-Martin Given how difficult it is to locate Alternate History fiction on the Kindle listings these days – genuine AH fiction...

By Leo Welles Henry V is one of England’s most revered and celebrated kings. At the young age of twenty-six he ascended to the throne of...

By Charles EP Murphy Last time, we looked at the chaotic history of the Archie Comics superheroes. The early days as pioneering Golden...

Freedom's Rampart: The Russian Invasion of New Zealand is a Sea Lion Press first: the classic genre of invasion literature, but...

By Gary Oswald Flag of the Ethiopian Empire In 1868, the British Army invaded Ethiopia in order to free hostages that had been taken by Emperor Tewodros II to force the British into giving him the military support he’d asked for . Their General, Robert Napier, bought only 13,000 soldiers, though he had also gathered 26,000 camp followers and over 40,000 animals to support his army due to the British operating so far from their closest base in Yemen. Upon arriving in Ethiopia,

By Charlie Allison In January 1500, Cesare Borgia concluded his twenty-four day siege of Caterina Sforza’s fortress of Ravaldino in...

By Jeff Provine In 1521, Vasco Núñez de Balboa made the first Spanish sighting from the east of what would come to be known as the...

By Alex Richards While the battle of Wittstock had ensured that Sweden would retain a significant foothold in Germany, the wider...

By Ishan Sharma Today, the secret ballot, which allows voters to secretly mark their favoured candidate on a slip of paper printed by the...

By Charles EP Murphy Comic history is littered with short-lived runs and characters that, due to capturing a fan-turned-pro’s imagination...

By Brent Harris It took a long time for the soldier to die. The musket-ball itself was of a large enough calibre to be instantly fatal,...

By Gary Oswald Depiction of the conquest of Madagascar. Artist is Louis Charles Bombled of Musee de l'Armee. The exact time Madagascar was first settled by humans is still disputed but most accounts date it to sometime between 200 and 900 AD, comfortably after the settlement of most other landmasses. Modern DNA research indicate that the first settlers were a mixture of Malay people from Indonesia and Bantu people from Africa. By around 1100 AD not only was Madagascar fully p

By Tom Anderson On May 8th 2020, despite the circumstances of the coronavirus lockdown, the United Kingdom—like a number of other nations...

By Adam Selby-Martin I first encountered the reality-hopping baseball player and spy Moe Berg in the short story Bonny Boy by Rick Wilber...

By Alex Richards The latter stage of the Thirty Years War- usually referred to as either the French or Franco-Swedish phase- became...

By Wm. Garrett Cothran You find yourself in Ancient Rome. Close to c. 75. You are in a forum and awaiting the trial. As a Roman this is...

By Andy Cooke In my last article, I’d covered Gemini up to Gemini 9 – Gene Cernan’s hellish spacewalk, which uncovered that EVA was a...