Once again a great vignette, I wish you'd write more stuff you're definitely one of the most talented authors here. Have you ever had anything published?
Thanks, It's nice to do a bit of writing again and I've had a fun idea for #4 of this series, so that might apppear at some point soon. I've never had anything published, no; I really need to get on and try to make some progress with the FaBR-based book, and of I ever get that sorted then we shall see...
Does Wilfred Owen have a place in this government, or is he still a battlefield martyr?
Oh, I assumed he was killed sometime towards the end of the fighting, although if he had lived that might have been interesting. Perhaps truncheoned in ally somewhere by the Special Constabulary during the *General Strike for being an agitator?
Another nice vignette, Ed. As said above, you do a masterful job of twisting something inoffensively British into the tool of a pseudofascist state, just as you did with the Boy Scouts in FaBR. It hits the zeitgeist of the period very well--I often think one of the trickiest things in AH is to depict a very different 1920s or 50s or whatever, but one which still has the feel of the OTL decade in its foundation.
Thanks, I wanted to fit
Mary Allen's WI batallions of death in there too, but never quite managed it!
And, of course, the whole "such-and-such was or wasn't killed in WW1" issue is a very underrated source of PODs for AH.
Oh, completely; even if you just take British political figures, it's astonishing how many prominent people had close relatives killed during the war. Eden's lost his brother; two of Bonar Law's sons were killed, and so on... And that's just the prominent people. One of the big issues I had wirth continuing FaBR to 1940 was the sheer number of interesting figures who wouls surely loom large in the mid 20th century, yet who IOTL never had the chance to. Somehow just making people up never seems a very rigourous way of doing things but it's difficult to know how else to approach it.
