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I've noticed the new style of external links putting things in a shaded box uses a shade of gold for the background very similar to the link text colour - looks fine in dark mode but is it possible to tweak that?

Bringing this over here as a better place for it, but as illustrated by the below graph, the sack of Magdeburg in the Thirty Years War- which saw the city entirely abandoned for a few years. The city didn't recover numerically until the 1800s, and never recovered it's previous position as one of...

It's been a while and I've been reminded about this, so lets do another one. Rules are as before: 1. Everyone interested in participating posts as such here. Once we've got a big enough group, I'll randomise the list. 2. The first person in the list creates an AH map or graphic (wikibox, flag...

So having done some research on Wales for the latest thing in my graphic's thread, the one thing I was most struck by is the fact that while the areas annexed to Herefordshire and Shropshire in the 1536 Act had generally been seen as integrally Welsh until that point, Flintshire (save for Mold...

Seeing as there's interest in doing this again. If we get enough numbers, I think I might split the group into a couple of smaller ones running consecutively. Rules are as before: The rules are pretty simple. 1. Everyone interested in participating posts as such here. Once we've got a big...

So as I suggested earlier in chat, I was thinking about doing our own iteration of the Telephone Map Game which has happened a couple of times over in the other place, though expanding it to other graphics to try and give more people a chance to participate. The rules are pretty simple. 1...

Famously the Romance of the Three Kingdoms opens with the line It is a general truism of the world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide. Historic views on China tend to treat the periods of division as interregnums between dynasties, and AH...

So a bit of context for things to start off with. Historically, after the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia as one of the defeated powers of the Austro-Prussian war, King Georg V (only son of Ernst August and a cousin of Victoria) fled to Austria where he settled in the town of Gmunden...

So to summarise from the discussions sparked by @Ciclavex earlier in the PMQs thread, Charles II's marriage to Catherine of Braganza represented a rather crucial move for the Portuguese nobility who were, as yet, unrecognised as independent from Spain across Europe, giving them foreign backing...

Something I've been musing on recently that may be of particular interest to @Guernsey Donkey - is there any possibility that the 50s/60s urban redevelopment of Inner City areas could have followed a process of replacing existing terraces with 4-6 story terraces of larger apartments rather than...

So somewhat inspired by an off-hand line in the lab earlier, I thought this one could be fun in the 'parlour game' style of things. To kick things off: A Beaker of Half-melted Wax and Broken Dreams: The curious life of Anna Maria Grosholz

PART I: So just what is a Kurfürst anyway? So as many people here probably already know, the Holy Roman Emperor was elected by a select group of senior figures in the Empire, each having the title of Kurfürst (roughly translatable as 'Prince who Chooses'). The numbers and identities of these...

Going for a bit of a general thread here. Anyway, talking with Bolt recently reminded me of my earliest attempt at AH writing- A King's Choice, which was essentially a 'how can we get the Romanovs/White Russia to survive'. With hindsight both the actual PoD (George V just lets them into the...

Britain's had a lot of attempts at varied administrative reform, and a lot of entities which didn't quite make it to the present (looking at you Hexhamshire), so here's a place for discussing administrative counties that could have been, but weren't, boundaries that could have been different, or...

This one requires a bit of background info, so bear with me. While the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618 kicked off the Bohemian Revolt (and by extension the Thirty Years' War), it wasn't until the following year that matters really started coming to a head. Emperor Matthias died in March...

Thought I'd set up a thread here to post WIPs, updates, discussions and so forth for any map commissions I'm doing, both for SLP titles and otherwise. So I'm sticking a general spoiler warning here, though I may well spoiler specific posts if I think it advisable.