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Not quite an AH question, but a project I've been given at work and one that the board is the obvious place to come to. What were the major arguments raised in the period 1750-1850 against the idea of the abolition of slavery: and specifically, does anybody know any online resources from where...

I'm sure it has been, but I can't recall ever seeing one: have any AH.commers ever produced a thorough and well regarded TL covering a world where WW2 is avoided with a 1930s POD? I realise such a project would be a fairly mammoth undertaking, of course!

Thought this was an interesting one to discuss, given immigration has consistently been cited as one of the public's major concerns over the past decade or more. I'm not sure how you'd get this scenario working, exactly: perhaps a 1992-97 Kinnock Government followed by a Tory return to...

Had a bit of a thought to get my writing juices flowing again. In short, I wondered about doing a series of posts for every Emperor throughout the IE story, from 1057 right up to 1973, both 2.0, 1.0 and vague ideas as yet unwritten, summarising their reign in three sentences or less. Obviously...

Slightly clickbait title, I admit. Currently working through Kaldellis' "The Byzantine Republic", where he analyses the full sweep of East Roman history from 500-1200, with looks at the early Empire and Palaiologan period. I paraphrase his key argument summary below, to see what posters on...

A thought I've vaguely sketched out in my head, but not gone much further than that... Assume that Alexander's illness of 323 is debilitating, but he manages to recover. He's around for the birth of Rhoxane's son Alexander IV, and sires another child or two, either on Rhoxane, or his Persian...

A bit of a very rough TL idea I'd never write, but thought might be a promising springboard for discussion. One of the most interesting little titbits I read in The Hollow Crown by Dan Jones is that in 1482, there was a serious proposal by the regime of Edward IV to return the last Lancastrian...

I've seen this discussed before, but I thought I'd open a new thread for it, given I've got a new book on the Wars of the Roses which opens with the last years of Henry's reign and the early years of the Regency that followed for the infant Henry VI. The book touches briefly on the fact that it...

How does the influence of a still politically-active and vocally opinionated Lady Thatcher influence British (and world) politics in the years between 2002 and 2013? Assume she dies roughly on schedule, but that this time her death is a complete surprise, as she's hitherto been a very robust and...

Now, as has been discussed at length by AH.com's more well-informed posters, a proper codification of the laws of succession to the imperial office is always going to be pretty unlikely, due to the nature of Roman Emperorship and the Roman polity itself. But, here's a quick thought. How...

I've been saying I'd post this argument from Professor John Haldon here for a while, so here it is. The argument can be found in the chapter on Byzantium inside Morris and Scheidel's "The Dynamics of Ancient Empires", published 2009. This isn't my own argument, and I could be convinced...

The world I have tried to create with Isaac's Empire is a pretty large one. As an AH writer I like to encourage wherever I can others to help with the project, and to contribute their own ideas (which in many cases are far better than anything I could come up with!) about the developments of the...

This thought occurred to me today. What if, due to whatever reason, the bill for an AV referendum is passed by the Coalition Government at the same time as OTL: but it is stipulated that the referendum itself will only be held in the last eighteen months of the Parliament. Let's say for the...

In my TL, the ruling house of a reconstituted Bulgarian Tsardom is descended from an Armeno-Byzantine general named John of Priene, who takes the Bulgarian throne as Ivan. I just thought I'd ask on the off-chance anyone knew: what name would his dynasty take? So far, as a placeholder I'm calling...

I've gone through the list of named nobles we know of of the Byzantine Empire between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, to find out surnames and frequencies of first names. I thought I'd share the results here, as something that should be quite useful for writers of Byzantine TLs. The thing...

I studied Ancient History for three years of my life, but I never took a great deal of interest in the history of classical Greece, being more interested in Iranian, Hellenistic and Roman stuff. So, the contention argued in an essay by Prof. Ian Morris that I am reading quite surprised me...

Okay, let's have a PoD at some point in 1552, which allows King Edward VI to avoid falling ill and dying the following year. The King will live until at least 1560 ITTL, reaching his age of maturity in 1555. My query is: who in the contemporary nobility is best for Edward to marry, or will a...

After a break, I've once again picked up Charles Moore's authorised and scrupulously researched biography of Margaret Thatcher. In the chapter on Northern Ireland in the 1979-1982 period, he describes that Mrs Thatcher and all of her senior Cabinet colleagues felt a great deal of frustration...

So, this is a two point post. The first issue is something of an AH challenge: is it possible to get AV approved by the British public in the 2011 referendum? I know that No To AV will be hampered if the Conservative Party official machinery doesn't come in to save it from Matthew Elliot and...

This is a possibility that's often discussed in British politics, as well as on this board. What if, instead of the surprisingly solid Cameron/Clegg coalition, Britain gets in May 2010 a shaky minority Government of some flavour, that sets out its stall for governing before going to the polls...