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  1. D'ye ken John Peel? A Cumbrian timeline.

    D'ye ken John Peel? I :: D'ye ken John Peel wid his cwote sae grey? / D'ye ken John Peel at the breck o' day? / D'ye ken John Peel gayin' far, far away / Wi his hoons and his horn in a mwornin? ----- Thursday 7th May 2015 :: BBC Election '15 David Dimbleby: Welcome to the BBC's election...

  2. Let's all go down the Strand - Images of 1984 reboot

    Prologue :: Let's all go down The Strand One night half a dozen tourists met together in Trafalgar Square... London. Saturday 24th May 2014 The five men and one woman stood with each other in silence as the flag was lowered from the arch, only for the replacement to be raised. There was no...

  3. Plausibility check: Nazi raid on NW England

    I'm looking for a plausibility check on a short tale that's been floating around my head over Christmas. A decent documentary on Operation Frankton and several Dad's Army Christmas specials, have given me the willpower to do a short timeline. Whilst I have no doubt to the likely outcome, I do...

  4. Itchycoo Park: P&S Oxford

    Had a lovely time in sunny Oxford this afternoon, and felt inspired to write a P&S one-off. It's a spur of the moment, off the cuff effort, but hopefully it fits with the established canon. Enjoy. Apologies for the kids TV references and homage to a certain book/film. PS. There won't be any...

  5. There won't be any illuminations: P&S Lancashire

    1. Bring me sunshine Bring me Sunshine, in your smile / Bring me Laughter, all the while / In this world where we live, there should be more happiness / So much joy you can give, to each brand new bright tomorrow 21st February 1984 The young soldier sat in the wind shelter with his...

  6. Northern Ireland "Tet" offensive - 1980s

    This is a timeline that I've been planning for a while, but is still very much a work in progress. Given the thread elsewhere about intervention by Dublin in Northern Ireland during August 1969, and the discussions that have arisen, I've decdied to bring this forward for debate and ideas, before...

  7. A Whole New Ball Game

    1. An introduction to me Thursday, 16th September, 2010 Manchester, United Kingdom If you came from Manchester you were either a red or a blue. I was a blue. Always had been. Always will be. My Grandad used to work in the colliery at Pendlebury, and he was as hard as nails. He used to...

  8. Three stripes and three sails

    This is a maybe going to be a series of about ten posts. Thoughts welcome..... November 2009 Manchester is city like no other. The world's first industrial city, home to three and a half millions people from the cosmopolitan, thriving city centre, to industrial suburbs such as Chowbent and...

  9. "Images of 1984" - Stories from Oceania

    This is a project that I've been keen to kick-off for a long time based upon what little is (accurately) known about Orwell's 1984 TL. Apologies if many of you feel that this should be in the movies and books section, however as it is original work using the basis of "1984" as the background, I...

  10. A Very British Coup

    A rare showing of this is now starting on More 4 for UK viewers...

  11. A State of Denmark

    Just finished reading "A State of Denmark" by Derek Raymond. I thought it was a very interesting and thought provoking book, incredibly dark, but with an edge of satire in places. In many ways it is similar to Orwell's "1984", but I felt that it was more moving, simply because of the way the...

  12. "The Plot Against Harold Wilson"

    Not AH, but raises the interesting speculation/conspiracy theory of a Louis Mountbatten-led military coup against the Labour government in 70s Britain, a timeline I wouldn't mind having a crack at once I've seen the programme. For UK-based members the programme is on BBC2 on Thursday evening...

  13. Rugby league rules the world

    This interesting, and somewhat patronising, AH comment appeared in Britain's Guardian newspaper on Saturday. http://sport.guardian.co.uk/rugbyleague/comment/0,10070,1582540,00.html So with it being finals weekend over in Australia and the apparent number of closet treizistes on here, lets...

  14. UK - Kinnock wins in 1992

    For those of you with a knowledge of life in the UK: In the most closely fought General Election of the 20th century Neil Kinnock's Labour Party narrowly defeat John Major's Conservatives to gain a majority of seats in Parliament. Like the Nixon thread and 60s/70s USA, how would this...
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