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With a PoD in the late 19th century, and the generous sponsorship of the Textile Unions (I see professional football ITTL following, at least in part, the Russian model of teams sponsored by political power-blocs), I think Accrington Stanley can get to be a dominant force in 1940s football. I'll...

The FWR considers tractor factories in the middle of nowhere far too important to get failed apparachiks to run them- academia, on the other hand... Oh god, tell me about it. This is from "Facts" magazine so all terminology is American- I psysically winced when I had to write "London Times"...

As Wietze says, William II not dying is a good PoD. The other way of doing it using him is even simpler, and doesn't need and Royal Princes killed off either; PoD: 1650. William II of Orange cocks up his coup against Amsterdam and is reduced to camping miserably outside the walls of the city...

With thanks to Jape for the original idea, and the late, lamented IBC for input; a brief, late entry to the FaBR-verse... :rolleyes: Above: West African troops relax in Kingston, Glasgow, July 1940 SCOTLAND: “THE DAMNED UNITED” Sunday July 21st 1940 Trailing jets of bright orange...

Actually, I did have something knocking around that I never finished thanks to IBC's unfortunate departure... Will see what I can do! :)

That's what Halloween specials are for, aren't they? ;)

The Presidents have been arrested, but given the flight of the King and Queen-Regent, they’re probably unlikely to remain under lock and key for long. As they’re held in the Bastille, however, a lot will depend on whether the garrison can be relied upon to surrender; OTL, the Frondeurs had a...

For reference, here's a map of the Low Countries in 1647; ...and here's France; ...and if you click on the picture below you'll get a lovely, massively detailed image of Paris as it would have appeared at the time (technically it's of 1615, but it won't have changed much...)

A little out of sequence this- I still have events in England to wrap up- but I figure you guys would rather me post something than not! Chapter 25 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel. 2...

If it all goes to hell in the Netherlands and Charles is left to pick up the tab for his new army, he's going to have some serious problems. He certainly doesnt have the cash himself- he'll either have to write his mercenaries increasingly unlikely promisary notes to be paid whenever he crushes...

Glad people are so pleased to see this back- your comments always spur me on to write more… Well it never did Joan of Arc much harm, that’s for sure! Taking the Prophet won’t necessarily be easy, as he’s got several thousand willing human shields- it’ll be interesting to see what his...

It's good to be back- nice to finally have the time to write, too! And yes, I couldn't resist the Van Klomp reference. For everyone else, here's the painting Blood was given by D'Artagnan; IOTL, it's had a long and chequered (mostly sausage-based) history, and is currently in the late Marquess...

Here are two images to go with the chapter- the first, which you'll have seen before in smaller form, is a reproduction of Thomas Rainsborough's offensive infantry ensign; ...while the second is Wenceslas Hollar's panorama of Kingston-upon-Hull, c.1640. Note that in the view, "up" is...

Chapter 22 And King Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which [is] beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir. 1 Kings 9: 26-28...

It's been a while I know, but I'm getting back into the whole writing thing. So here's an update- and hopefully there will be another reaosnably soon...

A fair bit depends on which Agreement of the People you want to go for- there's a fair bit of difference between the first, which was vague and considerably more modest in scope, and the third, which was much more of a fully fleshed-out alternative constitution. Let's go with the third for the...

As of 1646ish, there aren’t too many butterflies in New Sweden- but things will change soon. I do have some reasonably clear reasons why the colony has ended up the way it has in this map, which I’ll go into- for a start, it’s not necessarily the case that New Sweden is actually under Swedish...

Hi all, First, the good news- I'm back and this isn't dead! I've had quite a busy time of it recently, so sadly the writing has had to take something of a back seat. However, hopefully things are slacking off now- and as I've also got photoshop back on my computer, which odd;y enough really...

Yeah. Sorry- the picture’s a little on the large side. It was either that or an absolutely tiny one. That’s an excellent point, and as Thande says, like Batman I think there is probably room for both incarnations. An awful lot will depend , of course, on the political situation in the...

I promise I will update this at some point- but I want to finish "The Bloody Man" first, so it may be a while....