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  1. Rebels against Henry IV win, split England

    This is inspired by no one lesser than Shakespeare: In a description of Henry IV Part 1 I read what they had planned: Glendower gets all the land along the Severn, Mortimer gets the south of England up to the river Trent, and "Hotspur" Percy gets the north of England. So, if they won - how'd...

  2. German AH by Prof. Alexander Demandt

    Now that's interesting. When I looked up Alexander Demandt (German history prof, beyond 80 but still alive) on WP, I found that he had actually written a bit about AH. Usually "real" history profs don't like our hobby that much, even less so in Germany... Long story short, here it is, all the...

  3. Why did North America have the devastating ACW, and Europe no comparable thing?

    In the ACW, more than 600,000 men died during four years, and even today, some people have grudges over it. Roughly at this time, Europe only had four comparably minor wars: The Sardianian-French-Austrian war 1859, the German-Danish war 1864, the Prussian-German war 1866 and the Franco-German...

  4. "American War" by Omar el Akkad

    Anyone heard of this book? Just found this article: "If America becomes a dystopian hellscape, it might look like this". https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/4/27/15420306/american-war-omar-el-akkad-literature-novel Seems he has everything: "It’s 2075 and America is sunk deep in its second...

  5. Persuasive Maps

    Anyone knows this site already? From Cornell U? Recently found the link and thought you should know about it too.

  6. The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann

    This is a relatively new fantasy novel (2012) which I recently discovered. It's about the fairy world invading our world - Britain, to be precise - beaten back, but all kinds of non-humans stay in our world. The result is a mix of steampunk, clockpunk and fantasypunk. They're an exploited...

  7. William Tell - with a twist

    Recently, my new Chinese colleague asked me about European history and I told him a bit about the legend of Wilhelm Tell and early Swiss history. How landvogt Gessler forced him to shoot an apple off his son's head when he declined greeting the hat of the Habsburg ruler on a pole in the City...

  8. Found an AH book for Austria

    Recently I found what is probably the first AH book specifically about Austrian history. It contains no less than fourteen scenarios - one set in Ancient times, three in the medieval ages, four in the early modern age, the rest in the long 19th century. The book is only available in German, but...

  9. The new POTUS will be a black woman named Rice - but which one?

    I had to start this thread because the current events gave me the idea: POD: Condoleezza Rice decides to run for the Republicans and soon gets the nomination. Among the Democrats, as in OTL, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton soon make it to the top, but the race is undecided, and people fear...

  10. Chaos TL: A world without Genghis Khan's conquests

    Discussion thread here For the beginning an overview: Where and when Genghis (and his successors) changed history IOTL. 1205-09: Tangutes / Hsi-Hsia 1207: Southern Siberia 1209: Uighurs 1212: Kara-Kitai 1211-15: Northern China 1220: Iraqi Seljuks, slight influence on Georgia/Armenia 1219-25...

  11. Napoleonic Wars: Brits on Corsica!

    While the anti-Napoleonic forces on the continent were crushed by the French regularly for some years until 1812, on the sea the RN stayed supreme and even put sure that French troops never could conquer the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, although both are pretty close to French-controlled...

  12. Additional PODs for the Chaos TL

    A while ago someone suggested the concept of double PODs / WIs: You take an existing ATL, choose one point after its POD, and introduce another POD at that time. We already have some examples, like the double TL of "The Coronation of the Hun" and "Flee! Flee! They're crowning the Hun". I thought...

  13. Different reformation: Belief vs good works

    IOTL, the catholic church stated until the reformation and afterwards that those people who do good works will go directly to heaven (other than the Orthodox church, AFAIK). As we all know, this concept was misused in that a) the church decided that buying indulgences is a good deed in itself...

  14. Not so splendid isolation

    In the decades between Bismarck's demise and WW1, the old chancellor's diplomatic system that had put sure that Germany had good relations to all major powers (except France) broke gradually down - first they lost Russia, then they made Britain feel estranged, and at the eve of war, even Italy...

  15. What I learned writing the Chaos TL [essay]

    Small but interesting stuff: - Although it is generally believed that the Mongols left Western Europe alone after Ogadai's death, the Mongols made raids into Poland and the Balcans until the end of the century. - Bulgaria went through very interesting times in the 2nd half of the 13th...

  16. US politics in a Nazis Win TL

    Generally: How would US politics change if the nazis won WW2? Of course, we'll have to makes differences for the various possibilities: - Hitler declares war on the US, as OTL - or he doesn't, and vice versa - Nazis control "only" the European continent (maybe after an armistice with...

  17. The Shape of Things to Come

    One of the lesser known books by H. G. Wells. Written in 1933, it's very interesting as FH. Although he got a few things wrong, those which he got right are astonishingly accurate: - War starts in Danzig, in 1940 - Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and Albania invade Yugoslavia - Germany unites...

  18. Chaos TL (a world where Genghis Khan dies early) v0.0

    You asked for it, here it is. Read it and compare with the new, reworked TL to see how and how much my TL has changed. I'm gonna post it once per century (at least as long as things don't happen too fast). So here's the 1200s: "Alexander Newskij and the Hanse" 1200: Ghengiz Khan defeats...

  19. FH: Mark Brandis

    A German SF book series. Earth is divided into two blocks: The EAAU (European-American-African Union), including Russian Siberia and the associated member Australia, with the artificial capital Metropolis (built in the South Atlantic), and the UOR (United Oriental Republics [what, no Japanese...

  20. Football / Soccer World Cup with many German countries

    Just had to think about it: Great Britain starts with four teams in the World Cup - England, Scotland, Wales and North Ireland. Other countries don't. However, Germany was divided for a long time, and I'm not talking about West and East. WI there were German teams for Bavaria, Saxony, the...
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