Authors: Lance Parkin,Lars Pearson
Thanks most of all to the innumerable people involved with the production of Doctor Who, in any and every form ... past, present and future.
Lars wishes to thank...
First and foremost, a shout-out is due to Lance - for his vast
Doctor Who
knowledge, writing skill, professionalism, humour and for putting up with manic phone calls in which I desperately needed to puzzle through (say) the terraforming of Mars. I’ve learned a hell of a lot from working with him. In fact, it’s only now - eight years (!!!) after Mad Norwegian was given the honour of taking up the reins of
Ahistory
- that I’ve finally achieved the threshold of having written half the text you’re holding, which is to say that you have to run damn,
damn
fast if you want to keep up with Lance Parkin.
Big thanks are also due to Christa Dickson, not just for the tremendous cover and overall design of this Third Edition, but for being patient with my mood swings in the time it took to complete the text therein. You know how the partners / spouses of coaches have to exert extra understanding with their stressed-out, doom-slathered mates during sports season? Now imagine that, but that it essentially goes on for two and a half years. Similarly, Robert Smith? and Josh Wilson went to exceeding lengths to keep me at least half-sane, and a man could not ask for better friends and colleagues.
A great many people assisted with my research, but I seemed to most often approach the highly prolific Simon Guerrier, Jonathan Morris and Gary Russell for help, so thanks to them for their insightful responses. Big thanks to everyone at Big Finish - particularly Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery - for their continued enthusiasm and support for this project. Thanks to our beta-testing team (Barnaby Edwards, Stephen Gray, Steve Manfred, Cody Quijano-Schell and John Seavy) for the number of times that they saved us from ourselves. Valued research help was also given to me by Andrew Cartmel, Martin Day, Stuart Douglas, Paul Ebbs, James Goss, David Richardson, Eddie Robson, Alan Stevens and Damian Taylor. I’m sure I’ve failed to mention someone, for which I’m desperately embarrassed.
Appreciation in one form or another is due to Sophie Aldred, Jeremy Bement, Josh Bertaki, Jim Boyd, Graeme Burk, Dan and Allison Chibnall, Gwyn Cox, Jen M.F. Dixon, Sacha Dzuba, Marc Eby, Sigrid Ellis, Laura Gerald, John Gibney, Brandon and Kelli Griffis, Toby Hadoke, James Houston, Maggie Howe, Shari Hrdina, Hannah Hudson, James and Renee Juneau, Matt Jesson, Al Kennedy and Paul O’Brien at the House to Astonish podcast, Paul Kirkley, Shawne Kleckner, Michael Lee, Catherine Lowe, Shaun Lyon, Dylan Lyons, Cameron and Stephanie McCoy, Sylvester McCoy, Tiff Morgan, K.O. Myers, L.M. Myles, Dave Owen, Lars Pearson (no relation, but you can imagine how schizophrenic our Facebook discussions can seem), Chris Purcell, Cassie Sampson, Robert Shearman, Katy Shuttleworth, Deborah Stanish, Lynne Thomas, Jason Stormageddon Tucker, Peter Ware, Cathleen Young (God, the blueberry muffins this woman makes; that’s not a euphemism, by the way) and that nice lady who sends me newspaper articles.
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Credits
LANCE PARKIN
... is a British author now living in the United States. He is best-known for his
Doctor Who
novels and other writing on that series, including
Ahistory
, a vast work charting the timeline of the
Doctor Who
universe. He was a storyline writer for the top-rated soap opera
Emmerdale
, and has written half a dozen books about that series. He has also written or co-written books on Philip Pullman’s
His Dark Materials
trilogy,
Alias
and
Star Trek
. He wrote a guidebook to the work of comics author Alan Moore and is the author of a forthcoming definitive biography on the same subject.
LARS PEARSON
... is a former newspaper editor who wrote/edited stories about such lively diversions as a burning brothel, nude skydiving and an E. coli outbreak. For three years, he was an editor at Wizard Entertainment, working on such magazines as
Wizard: The Guide to Comics
,
ToyFare
and
InQuest Gamer
. Since founding Mad Norwegian Press in 2001, he has overseen publication of projects such as
About Time
,
Running Through Corridors
and the company's essay collections on women and fandom (including the 2011 Hugo-Award-winning
Chicks Dig Time Lords
, and the 2013 Hugo-nominated
Chicks Dig Comics
and
Chicks Unravel Time
). He is co-writer with Lance Parkin on the seminal
Doctor Who
timeline
Ahistory
, which is now 30,000 words longer than
War and Peace
.
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Table of Contents
Search by Story
Search by Historical Era
Sidebars and Footnote Features
The Dawn of Time
“The Dark Time, the Time of Chaos”
The Dark Times and the First of the Time Lords
The Ancient Past
Life on Earth
The Age of the Dinosaurs
The Age of the Reptile People
The Birth of the Cybermen
The Origins of Man
The First Ice Age and Cavemen
Cavemen Days
The Ice Warrior Civilisation Collapses
Pre-History Section Sidebars
When Did the Silurians Rule the Earth?
The Creation of the Cybermen
Ancient Egypt
The Osirians
Ancient Mesopotamia
The Great Pyramids
The Time of Greek Myth
The Fall of Atlantis
Erimem
Classical History
Ancient Greece
The Thousand Year War on Skaro
Ancient China
Ancient Rome
Anno Domini
Volcano Day
The Birth of the Daleks
Genghis Khan
The Renaissance
The Sixteenth Century
Leonardo da Vinci
Henry VIII
The Elizabethan Age
Shakespeare
The Seventeenth Century
The English Civil War
The Eighteenth Century
Neutronic War on Skaro - and the Dalek Conquests Begin
The American War of Independence
The French Revolution
The Nineteenth Century
The Victorian Era
The Crimean War
The American Civil War
Torchwood Victoriana
Jack the Ripper
Jago & Litefoot
The Twentieth Century
The Tunguska Incident
The First World War
The Somme
The Nineteen Twenties
The Nineteen Thirties
UNIT in the Thirties
1930
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
The Second World War
UNIT in the Forties
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
The End of the Second World War
1947
The Roswell Incident
1948
1949
The Nineteen Fifties
UNIT in the Fifties
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957