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  1. Makemakean draws stuff

    Rather than to clog up the Politibrit thread further, I figured that it seemed more prudent to just post these images in a thread of their own. Without further ado, the first image request is that of my good fellow countryman @Utgard96 who requested Tiberius Gracchus. We don't really know what...

  2. Russo-German Front, 1943: Help Wanted!

    Hello ladies, gentlemen and others! I'm currently working on A Thing, and I need some expert help on the status on the Russo-German front in about 1943, or thereabouts. Where the different troops were located, what areas were controlled by which forces etc. If anyone would be interested in...

  3. Vignette: The End of an Era

    The Prime Minister of Sweden jolted awake. “We're here.” He collected himself. Had it all been a dream? For a moment it had felt like it had all been but a dream. A fraction of a second, nothing more, but what a sweet fraction of a second that had been. The sensation of it being a possibility...

  4. 19th century IMF?

    Would it be possible for an organization like the International Monetary Fund to arise at some point in the 19th century, say, as early as after the Napoleonic Wars?

  5. WI: Henry VIII sterilized

    Just an idea that sprung up in my head while doing something completely different, a what if scenario I would be interested to see your take on. In the summer of 1532, Henry VIII of England is working towards making the political alliances he needs to get a new marriage going, in the hope of...

  6. Alternative names for the Confederacy

    Ladies, gentlemen and folks of other labels! I've been working on this timeline for a couple of years that feature, among other things a secession of the southern states in the 1840s, over various issues, but slavery isn't one of them. Not because southerners in this timeline are magically...

  7. Weird Resources You've Found

    So, yesterday I was running around on the Karin Boye library because I had found out that they had a biography of Olof Rudbeck the Elder there. I knew that a huge bulk of the biography was an evaluation of Rudbeck's strange scholarly methodology. Olof Rudbeck the Elder is along with Johannes...

  8. Could Stanisław II August have been successful?

    Stanisław II August Pontiatowski, the last King of Poland, seems to have been a rather tragic figure in history. Though said to be elected in Catherine the Great's bed (he was indeed her lover for a time), he also seems to have had a sincere desire to reform Poland and re-establishing it as a...

  9. Mongol Scandinavia

    An idea I had after reading a little about how the Mongols effectively ran Russia for a couple of centuries was "Would it theoretically have been possible for the Mongols to have conquered Scandinavia as well at some point during the Middle Ages?" after some though, I realized that the answer...

  10. Help me poison 18th century royalty!

    I need a little help with poisoning a certain well-known monarch in the late 1790s. What sort of poison would you recommend as being possible to come by, difficult to discover and suitable for the era? What are its effect, and how long time does it take to kill?

  11. Mexican Nobility Help

    Ladies and Gentlemen of the Forum! For a thing I'm working on, I am gonna need some reasonably wealthy family in the Mexican nobility in the mid-19th century. Anyone know of any that would qualify? (I am finding it hard to find good sources on Mexican nobility that isn't in Spanish.)

  12. Question on the English claim of France's throne

    I've been trying to find out a little about the reasoning that the British monarchs used to continue to claim the throne of France after the Hundred Years' War, but very little in clear terms is coming up. Now, I've been trying to make sense of the English claims to the throne of France, but...

  13. The Indian March of Paul: Maximum Impact

    The Indian March of Czar Paul of Russia is one of those interesting things that seem completely absurd when you first hear of it, but that must by any objective standard be judged as being plausible. After all, it happened. Now it was aborted early on, owing to the assassination of Paul, and...

  14. WI: The Hanoverians tried to stage a royalist coup?

    So, in my research for this-other-thing-I'm-working-on, I couldn't help but be amazed how much efforts the Swedish monarchs put into trying to stage a royalist coup during the Age of Liberty. From the moment Queen-Consort Lovisa Ulrika arrived in Sweden proper in the 1740s, it seems that not a...

  15. Colonization of China, is it possible?

    Something that has a tendency to show up in timelines is China being colonized by Europeans in the 19th century in pretty much the same fashion as the British colonized India, the Dutch Indonesia and the French Indochina, but having tried to have a go myself at it, I just cannot seem to get away...

  16. Keeping the Corn Laws and the Rotten Boroughs

    If there were two big issues in Britain in the early 19th century that really occupied the public mind (barring the obvious issue of deciding whether the British Empire should be tremendously huge or if it should be merely colossally huge) then they were the proposed electoral reforms to do away...

  17. The Scottish Independence Movement

    With a PoD no earlier than just after the Napoleonic Wars, how could you possibly achieve a Scottish independence movement by the year 1900 that is about as strong, and about as explosive as the Irish independence movement at that time in our timeline?

  18. Philosophical WI: No Hegel

    The wrong sperm hits the egg, and on August 27 1770, a girl who is named Sophia Hegel is born in Stuttgart. The girl grows up to one day marry a wealthy lawyer in Württemberg, only to die in childbirth in 1796. The historical figure of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel never is and never was. How...

  19. 19th Century British Prime Ministerial Material

    Which gentlemen can you think of who were into politics in the 19th century, and showed the qualities of prime ministership, yet who never advanced to that position? The first, and perhaps most obvious candidate would be the Whig Charles James Fox, who was a major figure in British politics...

  20. Spencer Perceval Lives?

    Assume that John Bellingham, rather than out of anger for his Russian imprisonment assassinates the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, becomes depressed and commits suicide, thus butterflying away Perceval's murder. What would be the differences on the British political scene over the course of...
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