I like this TL very much. Thank you for writing and sharing it.
Rymes of Robyn hood were first mentioned c.1377 in William Langland's Visions of Piers Plowman.
This work is literary evidence of the social unrest of the time. John Ball to the rebels in London in 1381 "biddeth Piers Plowman goew...
Wow!
You started this tale not long after I joined the board. It has been a constant pleasure all that time.
I know all good things must come to an end but... I don't want it to
Thank you @Lindseyman
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What are you proposing exactly? Some kind of steady-state-system – a (forced) equilibrium that maintains seven Old English kingdoms?
I like the idea but Essex, Sussex and Kent are going to find it difficult to survive when the other states are larger. Being stuck in the south-east corner means...
Some observations:
That’s because in the main they didn’t. I won’t say they always ended at sundown (because I’m sure someone will supply an example of a night battle ;)) but in general they did. It allowed both forces to withdraw and lick their wounds (and let’s not forget Hastings had already...
I would like to state at the outset that I don’t believe it is possible for a ‘partial’ conquest to take place. The Normans either succeed like they did OTL or they utterly fail. That is, if the English were strong enough “to successfully repel the Normans” at any point, we’re looking at an ATL...
A POD sometime before 642? To set up a different result at an alt-Battle of Maserfield?
The best source on Roman roads, if you can find a copy, is Margary’s Roman Roads in Britain. It probably won’t tell you what routes were still in use but knowing what road was where will be useful.
This is...
Even an amateur historian (like me) can tell you that reliance on one source (and a secondary source at that) is bad methodology.
However, for writing an alternative history, such claims are a veritable gold mine.
There is a way to resolve the issue. At the end of that blog, Abernathy lists...
So, this thread is not dead.
Updates will be even more irregular than they have been over the past year... maybe I should declare it as being on hiatus...
Anyhoo, the reason being that Clio put another idea in my head which I'm working out with the help of a friendly ASB.
Wyrd bið ful aræd.
Whilst the annalists/chroniclers/historians are often our best (and only) source of information, they can be a bit 'wibbly-wobbly'.
I almost suggested something similar a couple of days ago ie your post could have stood if it was lifted from a 'history' but you wrote from Lawgoch's perspective...
Good question. The short answer, I don't know.
A slightly longer answer: The information I gave came from two sources. The number of men came from the Wikipedia article on Gaunt. The ship number came from a 2013 book England's Medieval Navy 1066-1509 by Susan Rose. The 86 ships were supplemented...
Not my thing either.
'Frustratingly vague answers' is a polite way of summing up my attempts to find more accurate numbers on men and ships for you.
The 'best' - ie an example closest in time and intent - I could find was John of Gaunt's 1386 expedition to Castille which was around 5000 men in...