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  1. The Dead Skunk

    On this note, I must confess that I drove back from Edinburgh yesterday and once again made a rude gesture at the sign for Carlyle’s birthplace, before remembering I was doing that based off his actions in this TL and not our own…

  2. The Dead Skunk

    I do find it interesting that there are no mobile batteries being constructed on the Irish Sea – or, indeed, anywhere in Ireland or Scotland. While the former is very much the kind of internal waters where, if the enemy is showing up, you’re already in trouble, I doubt places like Edinburgh...

  3. The Dead Skunk

    I was going to say. Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear…

  4. The Dead Skunk

    Well. This should be fun (although thank goodness the court came to the less horrifying decision ITTL). Speaking of Berrien, I’ve been re-reading the latter parts of this TL – in particular the bits about the 1836 election and the War of 1837 – and I’m growing increasingly suspect that there...

  5. The Dead Skunk

    Oh, mate.

  6. The Dead Skunk

    This does feel a tad rich coming from Isambard Kingdom Brunel of Great Eastern/7ft-broad-gauge fame. Excellent as ever, LP

  7. The Dead Skunk

    I’m intrigued by the reference to ‘Royal British’ sources. Implying that not only are there sources that are British but non-royal, the two may have – indeed, may still – exist contemporaneously…

  8. The Dead Skunk

    It’s great to see this return, even if the war Bosnia-Rumelia does seem to be a mess. On a tangential note, since the last time this TL was updated I’ve driven past Ecclefechan in Scotland on four occasions. Thanks to this TL, on each occasion I’ve given the sign for Carlyle’s birthplace an...

  9. The Dead Skunk

    When I was young, our next-door neighbours were the Fullers. I always wondered what connected their family name to fuller’s earth. And now I know. And not just that, we see John March become the man he’s been waiting to be, the return of Joe Baldy, and one of my favourite folk tunes. Wonderful...

  10. The Darling Buds Express

    For those of you who might not yet be aware, The Darling Buds Express is now available for Kindle on Sea Lion Press. Huge thanks to those of you who read, commented, liked and otherwise enjoyed this timeline – it was a big learning experience for me, and one I'm quite proud of. Equally big...

  11. WHERE DID THAT DECADE GO

    WHERE DID THAT DECADE GO

  12. WI Rock Music Develops Earlier?

    The development of rock is as much about technology as it is musical tastes. Electric guitars had been around in various forms since the 1930s (or possibly before, depending on whether you count acoustic guitars modded with various homebrew forms of amplification), but the first commercially...

  13. Top Link: An AH Vignette from the Great European Railway

    …I think this might be the worst thing I've ever done.

  14. Top Link: An AH Vignette from the Great European Railway

    TOP LINK: an AH vignette on the Great European Railway [Excerpt from Top Link S19E01, production code #TL256] BLACKY: “…and so Tinders and I found ourselves in Wembley Park, in the most glorious weather this sceptred isle can muster, he with a pint of Barnsley Pride in hand and me nursing a...

  15. Vignette: The Mayor

    I think this might be the best thing you've posted so far. There's lots of decent info to ground us in the world, but it doesn't feel like the conspicuous world-building that can bog down too many vignettes (including mine). I liked the little touches like a continuing Ecology Party, 'London...

  16. The Dead Skunk

    That is a very nice line. Glad to have this back.

  17. AH Vignette: Grandad

    Very nicely done, and moving with it. I was rather proud with myself for clocking who it was before it was addressed in the text. A nice touch, as well, of having a Communist-Labour split in the new People's Commonwealth, which I don't think we actually get that much of surprisingly.

  18. AH Vignette: Terrible Responsibility

    May 8 1945 Even from the private drawing room of Buckingham Palace, the jubilant pealing of bells filled the air. The war – or at least that part of it which had directly threatened London nightly for these past six years – was over; for a moment, for a night, the people could celebrate, throw...

  19. Malê Rising

    That was a good story. Once again I am struck by the humanity of your storytelling; Rabbi Kasztner may be the antagonist of this tale, but his motivations are understandable for the time and place. And while Rosza and others like her will, as you say, eventually become the bridge between the two...

  20. TLIAM: A Series Of Quite Fortunate Events

    …Please tell me you didn't just murder Derek Worlock. (I know, butterflies, but still) This continues to throw up twists by, er, keeping the same person in power seemingly indefinitely – which is an interesting trick, and speaks to the quality of your writing. My one quibble with this update...
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