{"id":1694,"date":"2006-11-17T00:54:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T00:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2006-11-17T00:55:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T00:55:47","slug":"alternative-history-of-19th-century-bizaree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"Alternative history or 19th-century bizaree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href = \"http:\/\/axisofevelknievel.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/history-carnival-xliii.html\">History Carnival No 43<\/a> is now up at Axis of Evel Knievel. My eye was particularly caught by some alternative history &#8211; what would have happened had the <a href = \"http:\/\/www.markarayner.com\/blog\/archived\/691\/\">Gunpowder Plot succeeded<\/a>, and a spectacularly entertaining and probably time-wasting online source, <a href = \"http:\/\/www.kirchersociety.org\/blog\/?p=1068\"><i>Kirby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wonderful and Scientific Museum<\/a>: or Magazine of Remarkable Characters; Including all the Curiosities of Nature and Art from the Remotest Period to the Present Time, Drawn from Every Authentic Source<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>But it is a huge carnival, so you are bound to pick out other favourites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m pointing to resources, BBC Radio Four&#8217;s <i>In Our Time<\/i>, on the <a href = \"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/history\/inourtime\/\">Peasants&#8217; Revolt<\/a> (the English 14th-century one) is rather good. You should be able to listen to that for at least a week. Or you can download it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The History Carnival No 43 is now up at Axis of Evel Knievel. My eye was particularly caught by some alternative history &#8211; what would have happened had the Gunpowder Plot succeeded, and a spectacularly entertaining and probably time-wasting online source, Kirby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wonderful and Scientific Museum: or Magazine of Remarkable Characters; Including all the Curiosities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}