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By Matthew Kresal What would Doctor Who be without the Daleks? If they hadn't featured in the second-ever serial, broadcast in the winter...

By Matthew Kresal Some of the first exposures to alternate history people often come across are when popular franchises tell such tales,...

By Matthew Kresal The Elizabethan age of British history often is portrayed as something of a golden age. The Virgin Queen on the throne,...

By Matthew Kresal In 1967, Sean Connery departed the role of James Bond following a souring relationship with the franchise's producers,...

By Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the tail end of summer 2021, Jodie Whittaker has played the Doctor in the BBC's Doctor Who...

By Matthew Kresal People come to alternate history in different ways. For some, it's through historical moments and scenarios, wondering...

By Matthew Kresal There's a line said by Anthony Ainley's Master in the 1983 anniversary story The Five Doctors that's become something...

By Matthew Kresal Space flight, both human and robotic, offers up a rich vein for practitioners of alternate history to mine stories....

By Matthew Kresal In 1986, Doctor Who came back from an eighteen-month hiatus with an ambitious, season-long story arc. A season that saw...

By Matthew Kresal Whether we view alternate history as a setting or a genre in its own right, even a cursory overview of it shows...

By Matthew Kresal The late Terrance Dicks, script editor of Doctor Who from 1969-74 and who perhaps wrote for more incarnations of the...

By Matthew Kresal The 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has become one of those touchstone events of the 20th century....

By Matthew Kresal Doctor Who's seventh season, aired in the opening months of 1970, would prove to be a decisive one for the history of...

By Matthew Kresal The Avro Arrow is one of those incredible what-if stories to come out of the Cold War. A Canadian-built fighter for the...

By Matthew Kresal "What if?" It's a powerful question, one that drives much of alternate history and fiction writing in general. It's...

By Matthew Kresal The 1960s Space Race saw the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an ever-evolving game of one-upmanship. One...

By Matthew Kresal Doctor Who's seventeenth season, aired across autumn 1979 and early 1980, has become remembered primarily for being the...

By Matthew Kresal Titanic. It's a name that conjures up images. The grand ocean liner of the Edwardian era caught up in fate and...

By Matthew Kresal In 1975, Tom Baker concluded his first season of adventures as the Fourth Doctor in the BBC's long-running series...

By Matthew Kresal If you follow pop culture in the slightest or merely have a Netflix account, you've very likely heard of Bridgerton....