Letter to Mr Archibald Saint 12th July 1891

Dear Mr Saint
I hope to find you and your family in as good a health as the last time we corasponded. Bettina and the grandchildren are all doing well  and hope to visit Bristol in the summer.
Today though I do not write as your friend but as mayor of Cherbourg, to you as under secretary to the minister. What there is left of my beautiful nation is under siege, fay creatures have pushed us back on to the cotein heights and deny us our homeland. I  fear that soon even this remnant of France must dissappear and we will be remembered only in history.
I  ask, as neighbour, friend and fellow human, for you to speak to your lord Salisbury.
Any aid given would be welcome, I know our nations have not always been friends but together you and I, we stood shoulder to shoulder at Balaclava, and our two nations have always been the pillars of civilisation.
Yours in hope
Monsieur Thomasin

Theatre poster March 1901

A new study has been proposed by the Boston University to investigate whether the Paris Incident caused The Event or if The Event caused the Paris Incident?

 Is Henri Penn actually innocent?

Many scholars now believe that a multiple dimensional collision of some sort took place that night, how else do you explain fully grown forests appearing in the middle of the North Sea,?

Another school of thought is the Returners theory, that we have actually returned to the natural state of the world, arguing that all the changes correlate to fairy tales and mythology indicating a racial or cultural memory of these things from and earlier age.

Prof George Danbury will be giving a talk this Tuesday in London at the  Prince of Wales Theatre in Coventry street at 3.00pm tickets will be 1/6 or 3 bronze standards.

Free booklet will be available for a small donation

Bicycles will be stored free of charge.

New York mail 2/2/1901

At the time of the Paris incident London had an approximate population of just under four million souls. The great quake and subsequent fire killed an unimaginable number, some guessing as much as quarter of the inhabitants. This is probably over estimated but nonetheless London became a shadow of its former glory.

Thirty years on and once again the city is the centre of a powerful nation. The population behind it's massive walls are now more than what is was. Citizens from all over the world shelter is this,  the greatest of fortresses.

But today it is a sad city, a city in mourning for its queen, for its mother. Today Queen Victoria is laid to rest at Windsor alongside her beloved Albert, attended by her heir Edward, and

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany who made the dangerous  journey through wild Frisia to spend a last Christmas with the Queen.
Ambassador Anthony Hart from the Confederated Free States and vice president Roosevelt were also seen amongst the mourners. 

Thule

What do we know about Thule?

As the king has formally recognized Thule as an independent nation we now have a new neighbour to the east.

The Greek explorer Pytheas is the first to have written of Thule, doing so in his now lost work, On the Ocean, after his travels between 330 BC and 320 BC. for many years it was thought to be mythology, but then so were many other things. Thule of today is a high plateaux and highlands situated in what was the north sea bed, once known as Dogger Bank. The inhabitants appear to be a short but strong people given to big beards and tattoos, many have called them dwarfs for their resemblance to fairy tale characters.

Unofficial trading has been going on since not long after the Event, with residents of Essex make first contact.

The folk of Thule are a civilized and honourable people with an aptitude for mechanical devices and building, they have found work in many walks of British life with some even enlisting in the royal navy, they have a professor in the royal institute, the member of parliament for Thanet is dwarven and they run a school of engineering in Edinburgh for bright candidates taken purely on merit.
according to doctor Isaac Bellings the famed historical linguistic says Thulian language is closely related to early Germanic tongues, and cultural similarities can be found with early north sea cultures and that of the Thule.

Birmingham post Friday march 19th 1886

Debate in the Birmingham Town chambers reached a furious heat last Thursday when deciding what to do with the Giant discovered earlier that day. Councillor Jameson's argued that the creature be arrested while Councillor  Walsh wanted it sent to a zoo. More level heads put forward that the giant had done nothing illegal and to put another intelligent creature in a zoo would itself be a crime.

The emissary of Thule - Thanet times 23rd June 1900

Amongst the dignitaries attending the opening of the new Viking skydock at Broadstairs was an unusual character listed as the emissary of Thule. Who or what Thule is was not explained but the gentleman in question was of a short stocky build, no more then four feet six, and with a magnificent beard braided and brushed that reached beyond his waistcoat. Tattoos covered him in the manner of the pacific island natives though his  rather sophisticated fashion gave a much more civilised look. Aside from his modern dress he was the image of the noble viking himself with an air of dignity and authority.

Silver Standards

The 1889 Havana treaty confirmed the standardisation of an international currency to encourage trade between the major powers. Signatories of the initial treaty included the empires of Spain, Britain  and  Germany, and the United States  and Confederacy.
The success of the silver standard as it became know  encouraged other countries to join, until almost the entire world was using the standard.
In many places this has now replaced local currency, you can go into a gentleman's outfitters in Truro and spend Standards or Sterling.