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1234
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TW: The Twilight Streets

[
1235
] Dating
The House That Jack Built
(
TW
novel #12) - In the corrected timeline, a report written by Alice Guppy concerning temporal flux that occurred “last night” - the same night that Jack first seduces Alison, it seems - at Jackson Leaves is dated to “17th March, 1906”.

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1236
]
TW: The Twilight Streets
(p133). The equipment doesn’t seem able to revive frozen people, so it presumably compliments the cryo-tech that Torchwood has been using since Victorian times, as evidenced with Jack in 1901.

[
1237
] This event is only mentioned in
The Torchwood Archives
, which is a useful secondary source but hardly sacrosanct. However, until another explanation is offered, this might well explain the fate of Emily Holroyd’s Torchwood crew.

[
1238
] Dating
The Chimes of Midnight
(BF #29) - The date is given.

[
1239
]
All-Consuming Fire

[
1240
]
Vampire Science

[
1241
] Emily says she is “19” in “Silver Scream”.

[
1242
] There’s conflicting dates about this - Gerald’s biography on Torchwood.org.uk says he took charge in 1907;
The Torchwood Archives
says it was 1910.

[
1243
]
Pier Pressure

[
1244
] Dating
TimeH: The Sideways Door
(
TimeH
#10) - The Academy rejected Hitler twice, in 1907 and 1908.

[
1245
] Dating
FP: Warlords of Utopia
(
FP
novel #3) - Marcus was born on 8th January 2661, by the Roman calendar, which measures from the founding of Rome (753BC). So Scriptor was born on 8th January, 1908. This is the same day, in our version of history, that William Hartnell was born.

[
1246
]
The Wages of Sin

[
1247
]
Warlock
(p353).

[
1248
]
Dalek

[
1249
]
SJA: Enemy of the Bane

[
1250
]
Tales from the Vault

[
1251
] Dating
Birthright
(NA #17) - Page 202 cites the meteorite strike’s historic date of 30th June, 1908. On the multiple events attributed to the Tunguska incident, see the Unfixed Points in Time sidebar. Alternatively, perhaps the location is a space-time nexus (akin to the Cardiff Rift) that drew several items to the same point, where many of them exploded together.

[
1252
] Estimated as three generations prior to
Kiss of Death
.

[
1253
]
TW: Small Worlds.
A caption gives the date. The
Torchwood
website said this was when Jack was a time-travelling conman, but as he’s commanding troops and survives the fairy attack, it’s more likely that this is the Jack who lived through the twentieth century.

[
1254
]
Brotherhood of the Daleks
. The most famous of Peary’s expeditions was in 1909.

[
1255
] Some “years” before
Year of the Pig

[
1256
] Dating
Birthright
(NA #17) - It is “Thursday 15 April 1909” on p23, and Benny has been stranded “two months” (p24) by then. She departs on “24 April” (p203).

[
1257
] Dating
Sting of the Zygons
(NSA #13) - The TARDIS lands “16 September 1909” and the adventure takes at least three days.

[
1258
] Dating
Paradox Lost
(NSA #48) - The days are provided at the start of each relevant chapter.

[
1259
] “A century” prior to
TW: Ghost Train
, although it isn’t especially clear what this means.

[
1260
]
The English Way of Death
(p46).

[
1261
]
TW: Slow Decay

[
1262
]
TW: Department X

[
1263
] “One hundred years” before
SJA: The White Wolf.

[
1264
] Dating
The Catalyst
(BF CC #2.4) - The year isn’t given, but the Douglas family lives in an Edwardian house, and comes across as an Edwardian family. The suffragette movement (which peaked in 1912) is topical enough for Lady Douglas to view it with contempt. Douglas’ first name, “Joshua”, isn’t mentioned until
The Time Vampire
.

It’s here said that Joshua travelled with a Doctor who was an “old man”;
The Time Vampire
specifies that it’s the third Doctor (a “white-haired man who wore a bright red jacket”). Joshua travelled with the Doctor for about a decade - such a massive duration of time in the third Doctor’s lifetime is most likely to have occurred in the interim between
The Green Death
and
The Time Warrior
, when he’s no longer exiled, companionless and possibly - in wake of Jo Grant’s departure - looking for a reason to spend some time away from Earth.

[
1265
] She is 21 according to the sleeve notes of
Hornets’ Nest: The Dead Shoes
.

[
1266
]
Pyramids of Mars

[
1267
]
The Stones of Blood

[
1268
]
The Impossible Astronaut

[
1269
]
TW: From Out of the Rain

[
1270
] Dating
Pyramids of Mars
(13.3) - Laurence Scarman gives the date as “nineteen hundred and eleven”.

[
1271
]
The War Games

[
1272
]
Ghost Light

[
1273
] “Eighty-five” years before
The Dying Days
(p175).

[
1274
]
The Nightmare Fair
. Imperial China came to an end in 1912. The Toymaker’s interest in China is doubtless meant to explain his attire.

[
1275
]
The Algebra of Ice
(p13). Oates died 17th March, 1912.

[
1276
] The Doctor mentions the
Titanic
in
Robot
, but tells Borusa in
The Invasion of Time
that “it had nothing to do with me”. The ninth Doctor’s involvement with the
Titanic
was cited in
Rose
and
The End of the World.

[
1277
] Dating
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
(NA #21) - The story takes place on the
Titanic
, and the date is confirmed on p221.

[
1278
]
Neverland
. She was eighteen years, five months and twenty-one days old when she met the Doctor (in
Storm Warning
), according to
The Chimes of Midnight
. However, that would seem to mean that Charley was born 14th April (the night the iceberg struck
Titanic
) as opposed to 15th April (when
Titanic
went under).

[
1279
] Dating
The Suffering
(BF CC #4.7) - It’s “the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twelve”. This particular Hyde Park rally seems to be fictional; other suffrage rallies took place there in real life, as when 250,000 people marched there in June 1908.

[
1280
] Dating
Graceless: The Fog
(
Graceless
#1.2) - Amy procures a copy of
The Manchester Guardian
dated to “Wednesday, 6th of November, 1912”, which is “a week” after the story takes place. She and Zara arrive in Compton the night before the catastrophe.

[
1281
] “A year” after
Graceless: The Fog
.

[
1282
] “Some fifty years” before
Winter for the Adept.

[
1283
]
Benny: The Relics of Jegg-Sau
. Lewis, a co-founder of the Vorticist art movement, lived 1882-1957. His work was exhibited as early as 1912.

[
1284
] From Torchwood.org.uk and
The Torchwood Archives
. Childs is seen in the photograph of the 1918 Torchwood in
TW: To the Last Man
, alongside Gerald Carter, Harriet Derbyshire, Douglas Caldwell and Dr Charles Quinn.

[
1285
] Dating
Year of the Pig
(BF #89) - The year is given, and specified on the back cover. Proust lived 1871-1922, and
Swann’s Way
- his seven-volume, semi-autobiographical novel - was published between 1913 and 1927. The Ostend gift shop run by James Ensor’s mother is historical, and some items in the store inspired Ensor’s painting.

[
1286
]
Just War

[
1287
]
Lungbarrow, Vampire Science.

[
1288
] Dating
Human Nature
(TV)/
The Family of Blood
(X3.8-3.9) - Martha shows the Doctor a newspaper dated “Monday November 10th 1913”, and a poster for the Annual Dance - which occurs the following day - yields the date of “November 11th”. The Doctor has been on Earth “two months”, so since early September.

[
1289
]
Silver Nemesis

[
1290
]
Utopia

[
1291
]
Demon Quest: Sepulchre

[
1292
]
Benny: Secret Histories:
“A Gallery of Pigeons”

[
1293
] Dating
Human Nature
(NA #37) - It is “April” (p17) “1914” (p16).

Are There Two Human Natures, Now?

Well, yes. The 2007 television story
Human Nature/The Family of Blood
is an adaptation of the New Adventures novel
Human Nature
, both written by Paul Cornell.

In varying degrees, the new series has done this four other times so far:
Dalek
was based on elements of
Jubilee
(a Big Finish audio also by Rob Shearman),
Rise of the Cybermen
/
The Age of Steel
resulted from an attempt to adapt the audio
Spare Parts
by Marc Platt (the finished product was a different story altogether, but Platt still received a credit),
The Lodger
(TV) came about when Gareth Roberts revamped his tenth Doctor
DWM
comic of the same name, and Steven Moffat used the central idea and the name of the main character of his
Annual
2006
story (“What I Did On My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow”) as the basis of
Blink
. All four of these examples are clearly different stories - the Cyberman ones explicitly take place in different universes, in fact - and it’s easy enough to believe they could all happen to the Doctor, given a little coincidence.