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Another nudging ASB idea I've had. It seems strange to me that since there is a lot of wealth at sea, why there has never been a people of nomadic sailors that I can think of. Fishing and trading for food, plundering cargoes and coastal towns or demanding payment to leave people alone...

I had an idea which might be kind of ASB. The Reivers were a group of raiders and pillagers who lived on the Anglo-Scottish Borders. Now, what if rather than crushing them, they become the heart of a united British identity, with 'reiving now taking place at sea against the Spanish or whoever...

So, I had an idea and I just want to throw it out there. Its a very broad idea and probably needs some fine-tuning but ah well. 1840s Polk goes to war over Oregon and gets his ass handed to him. In desperation, he attempts to go to war with Mexico but Congress refuses to allow it. Only Texas...

According to my BBC History magazine, William Seward advised Lincoln to invade Canada and other British American possessions to try and unite the country with a 'short victorious war', as the man who told Czar Nicholas to attack Japan would put it. Now, what would happen in such a scenario?

An issue I've come up against in my TL a Looser Union is how to justify aristocratic rule. Basically, what I've got planned is that a party called the Logicians are elected in the 1840s and institute a multitude of reforms, hoping to create an Industrial Aristocratic Utopia founded on order...

Because I mean, it took him some time to refuse it, he'd thought about it when talking to ol'Bulstrode, and it wasn't clear what God wanted. Providence seemed enigmatic as ever. So, what if Oliver Cromwell had accepted the highest title in the land in the interest of establishing peace and...

Based on a List of UK Prime Ministers starting from the premise of Britain being conquered by the Jacobites, this idea has bloomed into an epic a tale of bizarre ideologies, terrible wars, bloody revolutions, foul dictatorships and the striving of an empire to ever greater heights. Here is the...

I am tired of promising lists set prior to 1900 dying out in the current List Thread. So I am starting out with two which are still not finished, but were started there. Jacobite Britain 1745: Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet (Tory) [1] 1748: Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet (Tory)...

This'll be a rather irregular TL, based off some musings in a thread I was reading. The Constitutional Convention will be very different, and the Union will evolve into a much looser state. The majority of updates will be on America, and updates to places external of America will be less in...

Sounds a bit pathetic, but my knowledge of Europe and Asia is very poor in this time period. I have no idea what India ought to look like, and the emergence of German indentity is a knotty one. Can anyone help?

In OTL, the stereotype of British people as a whole is stiff, posh and aloof. But the French said in the past that our language mostly consisted of Goddamn. We the roughuns of Europe and barbarically proud of it. This seems similar to certain American stereotypes. A certain 'damn your eyes'...

OK, I'm pretty poor at this period which is why I'm asking for help. The era we're dealing with is the period 1776 to 1836. The American Revolution never happened and other stuff did. Look at the TL to see what. My issue is where empires would have gone from there. I already have some ideas...

This is my first proper flashy TL. The groundwork was laid in my EPQ.

Just watched a documentary on Yesterday, which I still think of as UKTV History, about Edward VII. Apparently he had to postpone his coronation because he was suffering from appendicitis and almost died from the pain and the spreading infection. He also stopped brething when on the operating...

I recently read that the famous General Wolfe was almost felled in his prime by a French sniper at the end of the Battle of Quebec. Considering his legendary status in British society, and his astonishing war record after 1759, against many ill-thought out rebellions, and insidious invasions of...

TTL will be about the Pilgrims being forced south by bad weather, rather than north. They end up inland and forging an alliance with the Cherokee.

According to a book I read recently, Cardinal Richelieu looked on French colonisation of North America favourably, but on certain conditions. He envisaged a Nouvelle-France sprinkled with provincial towns dominated by monasteries and nunneries, fed and fuelled by a peasant class. New France...

You may recall the story of the daring aristocrat-soldier-journalist who enacted a thrilling escape from a Boer prison only to starve to death in Portuguese East Africa. We all know what the world looks like now, but what would the world look like if this prospective politician had been able to...

This is my first TL here, so go easy on me. Basically, the French invasion of Ireland in 1798 succeeds. Ireland is freed, and things change from there. Triumph of Ballinamuck The victory at the previous battle of Castlebar had caused thousands of Irish patriots to flood to the revolutionary...

The Barn Owl is an iconic bird in Great Britain, and I feel it could be co-opted as the national bird. Could someone design a coast of arms incorporating a Barn Owl in a new, dynamic and British coat of arms, celebrating our islands culture, from the Celts, to the Anglos, to the vibrant...