David Bofinger's

Mostly History-Related Page

This page provides access to a largely unstructured collection of the stuff I've written that I think other people may find interesting. Some has had a lot of development and draws many hits through web rings, other parts are just early notes intended to provoke debate or persuade someone else to adopt the project as their own. Most of it is at least vaguely related to history.

Actual History
- An analysis of relative progress in Eurasia and Precolumbian America.
- A compilation of interesting stuff about the fourteenth century, mostly from Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror.
- Notes on the history of the Indus Valley civilisation, and a tongue-in-cheek interpretation.
Alternate History
- The Dardanelles Victory Timeline, in which the landings at Gallipoli were successful.
- A timeline where the American War of Independence never happened.
- The beginnings of a timeline in which the Norse colonisation of America was more successful.
- Notes for a more expansionist Roman Empire.
- Second world war points of divergence.
- I Am the Very Model of an Alternate Historian
Making History
- A page on whether the Australian States should be abolished.
Historical Games
- Several variant campaigns and rules for Empires in Arms, including the 1702 campaign.
- Variant rules for History of the World.
- Eastern extension maps for Advanced Civilisation.
- Half-developed Balkan War scenarios for Fatal Alliances.
- Four stop routes for Streetcar.
- A rating system and other software related to the East Asian board game of go.
- Ideas on how to make Britannia more historical.
- Mediterranea, a Britannia-like game covering the Mediterranean basin plus Britain in the fifth through eleventh centuries.
- Italia, a Britannia-like game covering the Italian peninsula in the sixth through nineteenth centuries.
- A 651 start for the Grand Scenario of Empires of the Middle Ages.
Science, Fiction, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- Foreign language science fiction films.
- Public lectures on science.
- Original fan fiction, that is, fiction related to the settings of other authors.
- Two items related to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth:
  - An essay on the history of Arnor and Gondor.
  - Possible alternate histories of Middle Earth.
- SF conventions past and future.
- Reports on meetings of the Futurian Society of Sydney.

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