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I never really gave to much thought to what happens post-Blackwood when I wrote the relevant posts here, but FWIW I think there's something wonderfully British about being a Kingdom without a King- I suspect it'll suit everyone for the Lord High Steward to contiue being de facto Head of State...

It's not actually that difficult- indeed, perhaps even more likely than what we ended up with IOTL. The best way is probably getting Gladstone to adopt the Chamberlainite proposals for "Home Rule All Round" in 1887; failing that, simply have Gavrillo Princip trip over his own shoelaces in August...

Now, time for a little digression about vegetables, shamelessly inspired from M79's "WI Potato introduced widely a century earlier" thread.... Above: An illustration from Gerard's "Herball" of 1597, showing that, even in the late 16th century, prolonged contact with fruit and vegetables...

It's also because I'm fascinated by the whole permenance of historical memory thing- all of my TLs explore people being remembered differently from OTL in some way or another, and how such a thing can happen.

You really need to stop reading my mind- that was one of the ideas I was worrying away at. Don’t worry, it’s on my to-do list- need to finish the narrative first though! It’s always nice to romanticise nutters- look at Ned Kelly or John Dillinger. Or closer to home, the way some of the...

I haven't done a TL, but I did do a map, if it's of interest? PoD is 1774, when the Galloway Plan is adopted by the First Continental Congress...

Oh, I expect a lot of legends and anecdotes will grow up about the Prophet- and a lot of them will actually be older myths that originally involved Robin Hood, Hereward the Wake or even the Knights of the Round Table, repurposed and rebranded for the new era. I could certainly see Robin Hood's...

I was just thinking the other day that Theaurau John could probably fit in the Warhammer world quite easily- it might, if anything, suit him rather better than our own, being rather over-the-top as it is… I have quite a lot planned, as it happens- stuff we haven’t got to yet includes a guest...

Really glad people like the pic- as I've said, I'm hugely pleased with it and really feel it does such a distinctive character justice. Credit should also go to Ward's studio partner Marthe Jonkers. Do take a look at their website at http://www.bitpunk.net. I particularly like "Humbaba"- he's...

Right, so I mentioned the other day that I had a treat in store- well here it is! I love illustrating my TLs with maps, posters and so on, but the one thing that I've never been able to do is draw, which is a particular pain when writing something set in an era before photographs. So, a few...

We'll see what the King gets up to in the next chapter- and while the West Country is certainly important, the war will ultimately be decided by what he does in York. I see him as a bit of both really- certainly otherworldly when he’s not preaching, but once he warms to his theme, I imagined...

I'd never have been born ITTL, thank god- I do wonder what might have happened to my parents though, who were living in Leicester at the time. I suspect they'd go to stay with my Grandparents in Wales,rolling up at Haverford West just in time to see the mushroom cloud over Milford Haven. Not a...

I'm hooked on this- a brilliant addition to the Protect and Survive canon, I have to say!

As others have said, the Prophet met another, ‘false’ Prophet. I wanted to get across the fact that there is more than one person at this point ITTL running around hearing messages from Angels, and having the Prophet John encounter another Prophet John seemed a fun way of doing it. John Pordage...

And here's the map of the Frensham Campaign for reference- although it needs to be amended slightly.

Chapter 21 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it. Joshua 10...

It does here and there, but otherwise, apparently not- what I've effectively shown there is my understanding of the OTL partition line between France and the Netherlands, as agreed in the Treaty of 1635. Now, I haven't been able to track down a definitive depiction of this, but it's as accurate...

The map shows the 1648 boundaries, partly because I couldn't find anything for 1647, partly for convenience- it's reasonably close to what was controlled by both sides at this point IOTL anyway, and of course the final boundaries won't neccesarily converge much ITTL. Whether things will pan out...

...and here's something that I intended to post with the last chapter but couldn't- a map of the Low Countries in May 1647, just after the Treaty of Breda.

Sorry, didn't spot this comment before- Am mainly using Orest Ranum's "the Fronde", which has an excellent overview of pre-Fronde France at the beginning, Geoffrey Treasure's biography of Mazarin, and assorted JSTOR articles where required, particularly on the relationships between the French...