Meanings of alternative history in English

A marvellous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror and alternative history.

An alternative history for the Beatles and their role in world peace is also offered.

Thanks to this neat framing device, what was once obsolete sci-fi is now alternative history.

There is a huge volume of work on the Templars-from serious scholarship to pseudo-academic alternative history.

Harris's book kept calling me back to a neglected classic of alternative history, Keith Roberts's Pavane.

Shooting Gallery provides an alternative history of 1916.

However, Roth wraps up his alternative history with a neat resolution and the normal course of events is restored.

Something to link music, art, culture and protest; an alternative history that segued those seemingly disparate elements into one text.

Newsweek gives an alternative history of what might have been had president Bush been a more nuanced and consensual leader.

Early on in this fitful alternative history of VE Day, the future Queen Elizabeth encounters a piece of gossip concerning Gregory Peck.

Let me offer a brief road map to what follows: first, this chapter sketches an alternative history of plans to biologically transform humanity.

The choice might be eccentric, but the collection offers some great scholarship and a sort of alternative history of the State since independence.

One by one, as the boat crossed back to Tingwall, they pieced together an alternative history, shouldering a responsibility to carry Eynhallow's story forward.

Set in an alternative history of our world, it grapples with a society in which cops wear masks to protect themselves from white supremacists.

It would be a much-needed anthology, an introduction to many unfamiliar names and an equally important alternative history of Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1969.

However, there seems to be an important difference between Feynman's proposal and alternative histories.