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Touché, my friend. Touché. :D I really like this list. Can we throw it into a new thread to try and work out what the UK might have ended up looking like?

1951: Clement Attlee (Labour) 1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal) 1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1981: Nigel Lawson (Conservative) 1983...

1951: Clement Attlee (Labour) 1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal) 1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1981: Nigel Lawson (Conservative) 1983...

1951: Clement Attlee (Labour) 1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal) 1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative) 1981: Nigel Lawson...

When thinking about what Anno's Japan might end up looking like, this could be of use. Otherwise, I'm continuing to love the timeline, and looking forward to seeing what happens next. Do we know who Obama's nominator is yet - I can't remember ...

Enjoying it so far - a surprising level of realism, particularly for a scenario that could easily become an example of political axe-grinding. Not sure where you're planning on taking it in the longer term, and the book isn't released yet, but I saw this recommended on Ken MacLeod's blog...

It is about institutional, but non-governmental, responses to collective action problems, if only as they relate to the allocation of scarce resources accessible to all. Indeed it doesn't, but this example does disprove Licoln's objections.

Tell that to ... *breathes in* ... nobel prize winning economist Elinor Ostrom, the Piaroa, the Tiv, the inhabitants of Highland Madagascar (C19th - present day), the Bororo, the Baining, the Onondaga, the Wintu, the Ema, the Tallensi, the Vezo, employees of Mondragon, Linux user groups, the...

In my first game on a laptop fast enough to run the game smoothly, I turned Venice into a monarchy, tried to expand into my Italian and Swiss neighbours, got bogged down in some wars of attrition, and now - with a tiny rump state left in Europe - am concentrating my efforts on Venetian Cuba...

Anabaptists, especially the Zwickau prophets.

Severed Wing, by Martin J. Gidron

Here's a slightly ridiculous piece from OpenDemocracy: Celebrating St Guido Fawkes' Day -

Guardian interview with OTL's Shirley Williams. Could be useful! :)

I'm really interested to see how it goes down in Russia without Yeltsin. And I'm pretty sure alternate-universe me will have a signed copy of Shirley Williams' autobiography - apart from the rampant misogyny she'll be faced with, she'd have made a kick-ass foreign secretary.

Josh Ellis' response to this blog post:

Haven't seen it, but 2009 Lost Memories looks interesting.

Link. It's really rather good. There's a Channel Bridge, dirigibles and Whigs-aplenty! Phil Masters (the author of the piece) suggests that - as heirs to the throne - a surviving Charlotte & her husband are seen "as a refreshing and popular alternative to the aging and increasingly...

From Wired: And Charlie Stross: To me, space programme geeks! What kind of butterflies could such a discovery have had - on the US space programme, technological development, and maybe even the course of the Cold War?

I've thought about this at length before, and I don't think there's any real way they can - at least, not under Makhno. Makhno's "Free Territory" was a temporary autonomous zone; it could only survive for as long as the two nearest forms of state authority were distracted ... fighting among...

Ditto. :)