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So one of my favourite historical figures is Savaronola, the Italian preacher who set Florence ablaze after the fall of the Medici calling for a new age of austerity and godliness while calling for a restoration of the republic so thwarted by Medici oligarchs. He had cadres of youths going...

Ok so I read that fairly early in world war one the Ottomans sent 90,000 soldiers to the Balkans, which soon ballooned to about 120,000 if not more. This sizeable force did relatively little; casualties were heavy and Serbia (the main enemy in the region) was defeated by the Austro-Hungarians...

So I've just gotten back from watching the new Robin Hood movie and, once I got over my bad movie history-induced psychosis, I was left with a nonetheless interesting question: what if King John, in 1215, refused to sign the Magna Carta? What would the Barons do? Would they side wiht Louis of...

440 BC. The city of Ma’rib conquers its neighbours and unites south east Arabia in the Kingdom of Sabea. The rich gold, frankincense and myrrh trade enriches the unites kingdom. The Great Marib Dam is extended and renovated. Some 12,000 hectares of land is irrigated by this huge construction...

I've been working on this for a few days and reckoned I should put it up for critique before it becomes too long. Basically, it's a WI about the Investiture Crisis. 1076. Rudolf von Rheinfeld makes overtures to the Archbishop of Mainz Siegfried I over crowning him Antiking as part of the...

So there are obvious reason why Rome didn't advance down the Nile: political instability, a monolithic bureaucracy, and the fact that by the time the legions got that far the Empire's foreign policy was generally defensive. Furthermore, the Nile cataracts made any upriver transportation...

The small outpost of Carthage, on the North African coast. With a population of around 1,000 it was small, and still vulnerable to attack from the African clans that inhabited the lowlands between the desert and the sea. Her small population meant that she had no need to expand and, as a...

“May He be as lucky as Augustus, and as good as Trajan.” Emperor Trajan had ruled for fifteen years as Roman Emperor. During this period he had expanded the Empire’s borders north of the Rhine and east of the River Jordan to include the kingdoms of Dacia and Nabatea and the ancient city of...

1622. The first Huguenot rebellion. Following the annexation of Bearn to France and the loss of liberty of its many Huguenot inhabitants, the Protestants of France rebel under the leadership of Henri, duc de Rohan, who sets up his headquarters at the Huguenot centre of La Rochelle. He issues...

I've got some very rough ideas for a TL that will involve the Norse & Viking peoples and their relations with Northern Europe. Basically the idea I have is this: Several extended families are outcast from Norse society for some misdemeaneur. They flee west in an attempt to find a new society...

This is really an almost complete TL. The only reason I post it here is because I can't put it in the Timlines & Scenarios area because of their new rules. To potential readers, this is a long TL- 48 pages on word (!). It is, however, a pet project of mine that I've been nursing for months...

Every month or so there's the inevitable thread about Canada and the rest of British North America joining the American Revolutionary war, and its results are inevitably hackneyed and worn out. So, will AH.com ever leave this dead horse alone? Or is this change in behaviour pure ASB?

Here's the first part of a TL I have taken quite a liking to that I've come up with. If it's not obvious, the POD's a French victory at The Saintes, although this is really a result of an earlier, more subtle POD, which is the Navy not giving funds for the copper sheathing of her ships. A...

Ok, so I've been reading about Domitian of late. He's gone down in history as a terrible despot. However, he was realy just an inexperienced ruler who although capable, was not used to Roman politics. Well, I ask myself, what if he had been more experienced, if he had been made part of the...

OK, here's the first little bit of a TL I've cooked up. Please do comment etc. I don't think I've seen a POD like this here, and I'd be interested in knowing people's thoughts and reactions. Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh 440 BC. The city of Ma’rib conquers its neighbours and unites south east...

Ok, so I've posted this TL many times before- at elast twice; and those of you who have already read this will be saying: 'old SF's running low on ideas, so he's passing off his rejects' well- you're half right. The fact is- I've written a lot of this TL and I really want peopel to read it, so...

Ok, so I've already posted this, but because of the infamous 'walls of text' I'm afraid it was rather inaccessible. I'm therefore going to post it here again more spaced out so that more of you folks can read it and not have to use a magnifying glass. So, m yfellow alternate history makers...

396. Flavius Stilicho, Guardian of the Emperor Honorius, Commander-in-Chief of the armies of Rome, had finally cornered Alaric of the Ostrogoths in the Peloponnese. There was no room to escape, and the entire Gothic nation appeared on the brink of destruction. Alaric, hoping to rekindle...

So I'm thinking of doing a Roman TL and I was thinking what it would take to kick-start a Roman industrial revolution. I know that the whole monolithic empire thing is counter-commercial/industrial. We saw this with Rome and China who both had the manpower and indeed the technology to be...

This is my first TL to deal with China, and as we all know, China is a big topic, so please any comments are appreciated. The Prince of Yan usurped the throne from his nephew in 1402. The Emperor had attempted to break the power of the Royal Princes, who controlled large tracts of land in...