Search results for query: *

Forum search Google search

  1. Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God: A History of the True Whigs
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    Pan-Africanism: An Unlikely Beginning Political Movements are always the children of their era's troubles. For the Black African, the late 19th century was a time of relentless degradation as their continent was conquered and portioned by European colonialists, it is only natural therefore that...

  2. Essays for Sea Lion Press

    So I put up a post about this in April. And I'm going to put another one up now. Sealion Press, was started by members of this forum and is kind of a spin off of it. It has published over 100 books of AH fiction, often of timelines first published here. This forum is fantastic for discussion...

  3. Quick Timeline: The Miseries of Barbary, Seven Views from Seven Cities

    Introduction: "Three miseries of Barbary: plague. famine. ciuill warre With a relation of the death of Mahamet the late Emperour: and a briefe report of the now present wars betweene the three brothers." - Title of a Pamphlet by George Wilkins of London, 1607. Excerpt from "Morocco, Russia and...

  4. Quick Timeline: 15 Battles that Shaped England

    Authors Note I wrote this elsewhere as a writing exercise, just trying to write 7,000 words in two days which I did. The feedback I got was that it was good but too short and could have used more explanation in parts. So I’m rewriting it here, aiming for more like 12,000 words. Will put up two...

  5. Vodou Props (Rugby in the 4 Haitis)

    An article appearing in the website 'Maul', 9th January 2016 "In August 1994, the People’s Republic of Haiti (or South Haiti as it is almost universally known) was engaged in one of its periodic scraps with the USA over unpaid bills. The American President had set a deadline for South Haiti to...

  6. Vignette: Lincoln Must Fall

    An article appearing in the British Telegraph, 9th June 2017 "It is 18 foot tall, made of copper and sandstone and it is tearing the town of Richmond apart. A statue of Presidents Buchanan and Lincoln is causing fresh controversy in the American South and bringing to light the scars from some...

  7. Dahomey and Brazil

    The west african Kingdom of Dahomey had relatively good relations with portugal for much of the 19th century, letters and messanger were sent from dahomey to portugal and brazil relatively reguarly in the early 1800s, and the portuguese had intermitent control of a fort in whydah right up until...

  8. Could Robert the Bruce have won over the Lords of Ireland?

    Simple question, really. The bruces wanted to prevent the english using Ireland as a launchpad to reinforce carlisle and attack the strathclyde area. As a result they sent troops to Ireland during the years they weren't campaigning in England. Their stratgey was to play on pan celtic sentiment...

  9. Would Jimmy Carter have invaded Grenada?

    I don't know enough about the man to know myself.

  10. Vignette: Más blanco que los blancos

    An article appearing in the Guardian 21st January 2017 "Every time Madrid and Barcelona meets it becomes a rebellion against the establishment," the former Barcelona Striker Andriy Shevchenko once told me. Madrid? He meant Atlético, of course. You'd be forgiven sometimes for thinking they were...

  11. Alternative outcomes of the Anguilla crisis

    So Anguilla is a little island in the Caribbean that is still an overseas colony of the uk. This is despite the UK's best effort to get rid of it. It was part of the ill-fated West Indies Federation and then when that broke down was shunted into a three island colony alongside nevis and st...

  12. What's the effects on Africa if the Cuban Revolution fails?

    Cuba sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers into Africa. They fought, most famously, in the Angolan civil war but also against the Eritrean rebels and Somalia for Ethiopia, against South Africa for Angola and Mozambique, against Morocco for Algeria, etc, etc. There were Cuban military advisors...

  13. British Empire without a union of the crowns?

    Three things happened in 1603. 1. Hugh O'Neill, the earl of tyone, surrendered to Baron Mountjoy esentially completing the english conquest of ireland. Certainly I think 1603 is the first time you can really say the english had complete control of the island. 2. A few days before that, James...

  14. Henry the Chaste of Portugal

    Henry I of Portugal was the last independent king of Portugal prior to the iberian union after his great nephew Sebastian died in Morocco in 1578. He was also a cardinal in the catholic church and was capable of voting in 6 papal conclaves, though he didn't actually attend any of them. Do we...

  15. Two and a Half Kingdoms: A Stuart TL

    Excerpt from “Undoing the Magna Carta: A History of Stuart Britain” by Samuel Durston © Northumbrian Pamphlets, 1998 "In March 1603 the English throne passed to James VI of Scotland who became James I of England. James had by then been King of Scotland for thirty-five years and, having...

  16. Was there any chance of Sebastian I's invasion of Morocco succeding?

    So in 1578 Sebastian of Portugal with an army of mercenaries invaded Morocco to support his prefered candidate for the morrocan throne over the ottoman supported candidate. Sebastian overruled his advisors to stick to the coast and marched into the interior where his morrocan ally managed to...

  17. WI: No Shizari Era

    So I work in a university and as part of my work I've been reading archelogical and linguistic reports from east africa. The Shizari era is the term for the era in east african history after the first muslim conquests when arab traders began establishing control of of the east african coast and...
Top