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Transposing from the duplicate thread: Agreed, and in order to change that to some small degree, you need to make Bacon's Rebellion successful in overthrowing the planter elite of Virginia. Bacon's Rebellion saw indentured servants and slaves both team up in a kinda proto-socialist manner...

Agreed, and in order to change that to some small degree, you need to make Bacon's Rebellion successful in overthrowing the planter elite of Virginia. Bacon's Rebellion saw indentured servants and slaves both team up in a kinda proto-socialist manner (well as proto as 1670s can be) but after...

A rather ambitious plan, assuming all goes well, when do you think it could be achieved?

I did not say that they did. My purpose in posting was to provide a more complex view that hygiene wasn't a static thing in the Medieval period like is commonly believed. Opinions and trends came in and out of fashion as the period of time progressed and by the time you get to the Age of...

Regarding personal hygiene of Europeans throughout the Medieval era, following the Crusades there was a big upswing in the desire for public baths that came from seeing Roman public baths still in use in the collapsing Byzantine and emerging Islamic worlds. The knights came back home and brought...

WI Owain Glyndwr was successful in establishing Wales as a separate Principality? The POD could be that Harry Hotspur Percy gets sick and has to delay his attack until the other armies arrive. How might an Independent Wales look moving forward? How would English history change?

All right so Parliament starts talking about divorcing Caroline of Brunswick and George IV shortly before the coronation. I imagine that that's the first moment when Charlotte will begin by confronting her father on the subject. I'm trying to imagine how that might go, especially when she hears...

Agreed. I think it was the influence of Romanticism as a movement for the large part which helped change attitudes like that. Case in point: Emperor Franz Josef & Sissi Franz was supposed to marry Sissi's elder sister, but Franz liked Sissi more, so he told his mother that he would marry Sissi...

All right, so Charlotte takes the throne in 1830. Her son is 13, who is she eyeing up for potential marriages for him in the future? And what do you think Frederick William is like?

So what seems to be the consensus is that a turn towards "morals" would have still happened without Victoria, it instead would have been attributed to Charlotte's ascent to the throne. Perhaps we would have seen the era called the "Era of Charlotte" or something similar instead of the "Victorian...

All right, I've been watching Lucy Worsley BBC documentaries again, and re-watching the Elegance and Decadence documentary on the Regency period, I was struck with a question of how might the rest of the 19th Century have changed had Princess Charlotte's son by Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (later King...

Awesome update. :)