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Marooned Guest: Alex Richards. Here we are again. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This time, we welcome Alex Richards to the splendid...

By Alex Richards The Pollard Opera Company. Consisting largely of members of James Pollard's large family. The company ran from 1881 to...

By Alex Richards Renatus Meszar as Wotan in Die Walkure; “Wotan’s exactly like us: he is the sum of today’s intellectual consciousness,...

By Alex Richards. It's got a Barber, so the opera must be... Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. There is a common misconception in...

By Alex Richards In Part 1, Alex Richards discussed a potential POD concerning The Mikado. Here, he looks at one of the few performances...

By Alex Richards. The Metropolitan Opera House, 1898. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Editor's Introduction: Back in the day, opera...

By Ed Thomas, Lilith Roberts and Alex Richards Maps are a classic way of communicating ideas. It's a cliche that every Fantasy book has a...

Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Alex Richards, a graphic creator who has made maps for several SLP books and wrote...

By Alex Richards The Westphalian Peace It is tempting, from the perspective of the writer of Alternate History, to speculate on the...

By Alex Richards With Imperial war efforts in the Rhineland effectively ended, the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne’s campaign in Cologne...

By Alex Richards While the conflict in the Spanish Netherlands occupied the majority of French attention, Turenne and the remaining...

By Alex Richards If the Peace of Ulm had allowed Elector Maximilian of Bavaria to, ultimately, reorient his attentions towards Bohemia...

By Alex Richards When Elector Maximilian of Bavaria signed the Peace of Ulm on behalf of himself and his brother, the Archbishop-Elector...

By Alex Richards While the year 1647 had been relatively quiet in the realm of military actions, the peace negotiations in Westphalia...

By Alex Richards On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Alex Richards With the conclusion of the Ulm Truce of 1647, and the continuation of the concurrent negotiations in Westphalia, the...

By Alex Richards While the year 1646 had seen the first major peace negotiations of the Thirty Years War bear fruit, this by no means...

By Alex Richards With the close of the 1645 campaigns by Sweden and France, the strategic division of effort that had been emerging in...

By Alex Richards The Battle of Freiburg had been a bloody and indecisive affair on the tactical level, but had created the strategic...

By Alex Richards With the defeat of the French at the Battle of Tuttlingen, the frontiers of the war in Swabia had returned to the same...