"speculative history" is a correct phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to interpretations of the past based on educated guesses or hypothesis, such as theories about the history of a certain people or place. For example, "Many researchers have put forth speculative history about the origin of the ancient Mayans and their development of the calendar."
There are, of course, other books of so-called speculative history and science fiction speculative history.
Speculative history is fun, and now there seems to be a generational looking-back".
For some fans and writers the fun of speculative history is just that combination of history and science fiction.
The density of violent crime in this speculative history of skulduggery in high places equals that of "I, Claudius," "The Sopranos" and the "Godfather" movies.
Churchill's chilling ifs have become the mind game of a small but cultist book genre called alternative history, or speculative history, or counterfactual history or hypothetical history.
Mr. Baigent had a best-seller of his own, in 1982, the speculative history "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" (released in the United States as "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"), which he wrote with Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln.
From that perspective, speculative histories are really about us — our desires, our ideas, our intuitions, however marginal, wrong, or unrealized they may be.
From that perspective, speculative histories are really about us our desires, our ideas, our intuitions, however marginal, wrong, or unrealized they may be.
Unlike Brecht, however, he conceived them within the terms of a speculative cultural history (Caygill 2004).
Fans of Whitehead won't be surprised by his less-than-faithful historical approach, which melds vivid researched detail with speculative alternative history, and plays fast and loose with chronology and setting to create a more cohesive, overarching thematic exploration. .
What's more, this sort of drama feels genuinely new: beyond the odd episode of Doctor Who and Quantum Leap, speculative alternate histories are rarely told on TV.
