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The POD for this TL has required a bit of digging into individual constituency results. And it's fairly simple- at the 1964 general election, Labour get a swing of 2.7% rather than 3%, and cannot get a majority. Specifically, Labour fail to gain Birmingham Yardley, Birmingham All Saints...

This POD hangs on the decision of Karl Jarres to withdraw from the 1925 Presidential Election in Germany. If he had chosen to run on, this is what I think would be the resulting timeline... For a while, there had been murmurs that forces were hoping to bounce Paul von Hindenburg into the 1925...

Discussion thread This TL deals with the aftermath of the Belgian Revolution of 1830. As the violence in the Netherlands continued, Talleyrand submitted a partition plan to the Great Powers. This would split the south between France, the Netherlands, Prussia and a Free State of Antwerp...

Hello all. I'm researching a TL involving a modified Talleyrand plan being accepted in the aftermath of the Belgian Revolution- so partition, rather than a modern day Belgium. The plan will likely involve France getting a sizeable chunk of Wallonia, but being forced into certain territorial...

It's been a while since I've had time to write a TL, but here is a new one...and it's based on a real POD. The French comedian Coluche announced he was going to run for the presidency, but didnt after his friend, director Rene Gorlin, was murdered. But what if Gorlin had not died? The 26th...

How much different would things be if... -Chirac doesn't fatally undermine Giscard, who goes on to win a second term against Mitterand? -Balladur manages to beat Chirac in the first round in 95, and faces off against Jospin in the second?

In the weeks after the January 1919 elections, as he was drawing up the new constitution, politician and lawyer Hugo Preuss suddenly rethought his ideas on proportional representation. Was pure PR the best bet? He raised the point with Chancellor Scheidemann, who reasoned through the...

Comments as ever welcome and indeed encouraged! The POD is hopefully plausible enough, knowing what Louis-Napoleon was like. In late May, 1846, a correspondant for Paris's La Presse got a sensational scoop after a conversation with a friend of his working at the Ministry of the Interior. A...

Your challenge is... To get either the Prince-Bishopric of Liege or Duchy of Brabant to survive into the 19th Century or beyond as independent entities.

My POD is a pretty simple one. In 1274, Floris V, Count of Holland, helped the Bishop of Utrecht to defeat Gijsbert van Amstel and Herman van Woerden, two rebellious noblemen, and their allies, the craftsmen of the city. Both survived, and later re-emerged in a scenario which left Floris dead...

There have been a fair few France-related pre-1900 TLs and discussions lately. Anybody got any good recommendations for Francophone alternate history/ 'uchronie' sites? I'd be interested to see what other takes on some of the topics there are.

Considering a new TL, but I'd like to know what you think first. The question is- how plausible is this? Mary of Burgundy in OTL married Maximiilian Habsurg, and the lands passed to him on her death. But seeing as how she chose her own husband- how plausible would it be for her to marry John...

After the Treaty of London, it was once again clear that sabres were rattling across the Balkans, it was clear that sabres once again were rattling across the Balkans. Greece and Serbia were preparing to turn on their erstwhile ally, Bulgaria. The Bulgarians could not count on Russian support...

This is going to sound really odd but there you go... In OTL, Mrs. Thatcher was so furious with the failings of the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, she decided she would go and take personal charge herself. In the end, she was only just dissuaded by the Home Secretary, Willie Whitelaw. This is...

The POD here is a fairly simple one- that a deserter tells the Germans that the Lak Naroch Offensive of 1916 is coming, and they get ready. And the Russian catastrophe of OTL is even worse-most of the events in this first installment are based on OTL. But the thing that might confuse you all...

The premise here is a different Richard II thanks to the vaguaries of pregnancy.... In December 1366, Joan of Kent, wife of the Black Prince, suffered a miscarriage. She was utterly devastated, and Edward III was worried: would he have a legitimate grandchild via the Black Prince, or would...

The POD for this TL is about ten yards and a little more anger...resulting in the removal of the future Charles V of France. 22nd February 1358- Having killed the Marshals of Champagne and Normandy before the very eyes of the Dauphin, Charles, a 3,000-strong mob of Parisians under Etienne...

Now, the original purpose of the 1518 Treaty of London was (on the Pope's side) an agreement to help fight against the Moorish threat to Spain, and against the Ottomans. So, how likely might it be that Henry VIII would have indeed decided to intervene in North Africa? Is it a plausible POD...

Now I wonder if this might be better off in ASB! Your challenge: make French-language music mainstream across the world, POD 1960 or later. Extra kudos if you can create a Chanson Francaise subculture in the major cities of the USA or UK, and have a French singer become regarded as the...

What if, instead of taking Buenos Aires and then concluding a deal to withdraw with the Spanish garrison, General Whitlock had worked with General Auchmuty to secure the southern coast of Uruguay? My suspicion is that, knowing us, we would never have left.:D We would probably have done a Cape...