Setting: 1830-1870 Central Europe (France, Germany, Austria, and Bohemia mostly ( Read more... )

I'm trying to write a novel set in Victorian England, precisely in 1842 ( Read more... )

Setting: A Nevada miner's camp in the 1850s ( Read more... )

Googled a whole bunch about 1848 and read some of Engels' accounts and excerpts from Rhineland Radicals ( Read more... )

I wanted to use an IED (Improved Explosive Device) circa 1840, but the earliest references I can find to them is around World War One, but much more after World War Two.    The character is from the present day, and the setting is a European kingdom where the timeline sort of swings around but tends to settle around 1840 or so.  What would he ( Read more... )

My character is arranging the transport of a dead friend in a sealed coffin from his place of death (London) to his home in the north of England for burial. This link implies that it was possible to travel from London to York by rail by 1841 - close enough for my purposes ( Read more... )

So I have a character that was displaced from time when he was 25 in 1873 which means he was born in 1848. He is a scholarly character that is a second generation (subject to change) Canadian (United Providence of Canada). I am currently trying to fine tune his ancestry. He has a very English name but his surname in Moraeu so I wanted his British ( Read more... )

Setting/Notes: I'm writing a story set in 1840's London (so late Regency/early Victorian era). It's slightly AU in that magic exists, though has not effected history all that much (think Sorcery and Cecelia), so while I'm wiling to play a little fast and loose with making things slightly outdated or ahead of their time, I'd rather they weren't ( Read more... )

Setting: 1847, a remote military outpost in the Sierra Nevadas ( Read more... )

Setting: America, somewhere between 1849 and 1852 (haven't settled on a year just yet ( Read more... )