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Mar 20, 20237 min read
Microfiction from the SLP Community: Part 5
By Gary Oswald, Ishan Sharma and Lilith Roberts One of the most common forms of microfiction you find on AH forums is the wikibox, an...
Feb 8, 202321 min read
Microfiction from the SLP Community: Part 1
By Gary Oswald, Mark Tentarelli, Bob Mumby and Charles EP Murphy Sea Lion Press has always had the aim of providing a platform for...
Jan 18, 202313 min read
Caribbean Cold War: The Other Iron Lady
By Gary Oswald Unlike many of its neighbours, the Commonwealth of Dominica was granted independence as a republic, with a President...
Dec 14, 202215 min read
Caribbean Cold War: The Revolution eats itself
By Gary Oswald There is nothing particularly unusual about the history of Grenada. It had been conquered by Europeans in the 17th...
Dec 7, 202210 min read
Caribbean Cold War: Anguilla vs the Empire
By Gary Oswald As discussed in the previous article of this series, the failure of the West Indies Federation of all of the UK's...
Nov 30, 20229 min read
Caribbean Cold War: Drinking Beer with the CIA
By Gary Oswald The Caribbean, and in particular the lesser Antilles, are mostly known in the west as peaceful tourist traps, where...
Nov 9, 20224 min read
Alternate History: X,Y,Z
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Oct 26, 202213 min read
Africa Without the Scramble
By Gary Oswald I have written on and off about Africa during the 19th century on this blog for about three years in around 40 articles...
Oct 19, 20226 min read
Alternate History: V,W
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Oct 13, 20225 min read
Alternate History: S,T,U
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Oct 11, 20229 min read
Africa During the Scramble: The First Dominos
By Gary Oswald In 1830 France invaded Algiers, which had long been a centre of Islamic piracy and where French merchants did significant...
Oct 5, 20224 min read
Alternate History: P,Q,R
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Sep 30, 202210 min read
Africa During the Scramble: The Rebellion that Didn't Happen
By Gary Oswald The Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania are a nomadic group of cattle herders in the Great Rift Valley. Traditionally,...
Sep 28, 20224 min read
Alternate History: M,N,O
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Sep 26, 20228 min read
Europe During the Scramble: Voting on Empire
By Gary Oswald In 1907, the German Empire in Africa consisted of four territories. German South West Africa, German East Africa, German...
Sep 22, 20225 min read
Alternate History: J,K,L
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Sep 9, 202216 min read
Africa During the Scramble: Scorch the Earth
By Gary Oswald In 1885 German gunships pulled into the Omani island of Zanzibar and demanded that the Sultan of Zanzibar, Barghash bin...
Sep 6, 20228 min read
Alternate History: G,H,I
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Sep 2, 20226 min read
Vignette: Delenda Est
By Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Aug 31, 202213 min read
Africa During the Scramble: The World's Oldest Alliance
By Gary Oswald In 1386, John I of Portugal and Richard II of England agreed the Treaty of Westminster. That treaty established a pact of...
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