Hello and welcome to my first timeline on this site which will follow the history of the Kingdom of England and the trials it faces along with the advances it makes. The main PoD will be one during the Battle of Hastings, however I promise this will not be a simple story of throwing the Bastard back into the sea and all being fine and well, this will have an England that sees a lot of strife in the period of time of 1066 going until 1100-ish.
Now the first "true" update will be later today, which will reveal both its primary effects and a few tidbits about some of the people involved that are often forgotten or just not talked about, but for now a short Q&A about what to expect in terms of scope, scale and format from this along with a small number of minutia.
Q. When will this timeline progress to?
I have notes on England and those pertaining to it for a period until about the 1200s/1250s, I'll take a break/check there to gauge my own enjoyment of this and depending on that we'll follow the TL to the discovery of the new world whenever that occurs and pick-up again in a sequel TL in the vein of the White Huns.
I'll probably end up doing a revamp of this when I evolve more as a writer and expand my research of the period(s), or I'll give up. Who knows.
Q. Will you covering areas outside of England in this TL?
I have rough plans for things going on in France, Christian Iberia, the HRE and even less on (but still something) on Christian Eastern Europe and an even infinitesimally smaller series of notes on the Baltic and other Pagan/Islamic parts of the wider European continent.
Q. How much butterfly effect will occur?
Not sure, I have it working to an extent in some of my notes on Europe. One of the problems with doing an Anglo-Saxon timeline is the lack of details about many of the figures of the Anglo-Saxon nobility and thus nearly anything they do could be seen as unrealistic or OOC.
Q. What will an update look like?
Basically just text, maybe a few rough maps. But mainly just text and maps, because if it works for works like LTTW then hopefully my much lesser work can survive on that format too.
Q. How far will you follow in the style on those who use alt-history to teach real history?
Um, a little but not too much, largely I'll be doing that in the early updates and less in the ones that follow 1100 in terms of facts about England. It'll likely occur still in Europe post-1100 but not much there either.
Anyway, hope that the promise of an Anglo-Saxon timeline has piqued your interest, the first update and the container of both background dressing and the PoD should be up at around 20:00 GMT at the latest.