World Building and Woolgathering

It is a strange facet of British culture that the organisation dedicated to mapping the nation has its origins in the Armed Forces. If one w...

I might have been absent for a while, but I have not been altogether idle. A visit to The British Museum helped produce the following ...

The Empress having thus declared her mind to the Ape-men, and given them better Instructions then perhaps they expected, not knowing that h...

My recent posts have all been of a piece, but I didn't have anything in mind regarding clothing until something crossed my mind. Therefo...

Having broached the "Where do you..." topic in an earlier post, I am going to revisit this. The question raised itself, unlike the...

The Three Sabres Mercenary Company exist as a deliberate reference to the Essex county coat of arms; three sabres on a red field. The sabres...

1. A stuffed crocodile, suspended from the ceiling. Everyone at the Arcane College had one. 2. A twenty-eight league bootrack, suitable for...

The old chestnut "You all meet in a tavern," is rather scorned, with good reason. It has so much of the off-the-shelf fantasy worl...

London is an old city; with many regions possessing identities of their own - because in centuries past, they were independent villages in t...

Recently, I came across a critical examination of the 2006 film Children of Men - an adaptation of the 1992 novel The Children of Men by B...