Wind-dandies: Literary or kinematic phantasies supposing that the advances of our Steam Era occurred in ages past through use of wind-power.

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‘In exchange for the natives’ labour, the Raj brings them education, culture, religion... nearly a fifth of English peasants are Hindu now.’

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Within the reservation my badge meant nothing. The tribal authorities ran the show. ‘You’re on Catuvellauni land now, Quaestor,’ I muttered.

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‘InterTime Inc suppresses one technology per history, as a visual marker. Streetlamps, staplers, fridges... one world even has no airships.’

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Our sky-craft’s snake-prow glints proudly / As we stand sturdy on Tiw’s red world. / Bronze bowmen hail us, bragging of Horus. / We fight...

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From the London Wall to the Tokyo Towers: the rise of Christian terrorism after Offenheit in the Third Reich, by Hirohito Gordon – GB¥ 49.95

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By taking a fifth wife, Henry VIII precipitated the gravest religious crisis in England since Saladin’s conversion of Richard the Lionheart.

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With the Confederacy and the Mexica allied and Vinland strictly neutral, the Union appealed to Alaska. But would the Tsar assist communists?

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After Rome fell, Europe held no further challenges for Alexander. The old man stood at the Pillars of Hercules and gazed speculatively west.

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‘This “John Lackland” is an outlaw and a traitor,’ swore the Senator of Nottingham. ‘I’ll see him captured or my name isn’t Robin Locksley!’

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Excoriated by the Caesars as a deicidal, humanistic cult, Iscariotism did not became the imperial religion until the reign of Inconstantine.

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