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We've discussed Romano-wank several times before, and in doing so, I've always had a couple of key objections to the idea- firstly, that Germania and the lands beyond it were fundamentally too backward for any process of Romanisation be able to take place in the first century AD, and secondly...

See here for the brief details of the scheme. I'm not an economicsy kinda guy, but I think that the implementation of this scheme would have done quite a lot to lessen sterling's dependence on the dollar in the early 1950s, and thus make Britain more able to act independently of the USA. Could...

So, what if, the relief fleet that landed at Jaffa on June 17th 1099 which brought the Crusaders equipment to be able to assault the Holy City was lost at sea? The Crusaders are caught unprepared a few weeks later outside the walls of Jerusalem by a large Fatimid army and wiped out. How does...

Think I may have asked this before- but I'm not certain. Anyway, ignore if so. Polls for the majority of Gordon Brown's premiership seemed to point towards a seemingly inevitable easy victory for David Cameron's Conservatives- I myself always thought that the Tories would win a comfortable...

Just some thoughts on this. Margaret Thatcher is somehow compelled to step down as Prime Minister in the early autumn of 1989, let's say shortly before Nigel Lawson's OTL resignation. Not killed or maimed, but out of high office. She is succeeded by Howe as Conservative leader. Is this...

In the spring of 1087, William the Conqueror, provoked by a supposed insult from King Philip I of France, marched on Paris, and sacked the frontier town of Mantes. Whilst at Mantes, however, he sustained severe injuries, and later died of his wounds, ending the campaign. What if the Normans are...

Just been doing some reading about the extent of Hellenisation in the East in the 200s BC, and wondered if it's possible to get a "Seleucid Empire" style mixed state in British India? By which I mean some sort of successor state to the British Empire, ruled over by a mixed English and Indian...

Posting this here as it's a scenario, but the main excitement comes from this new book that's recently been published, and looks to be a veritable feast of British political AH. It's certainly one I'll be putting on my Christmas list!

Hello, and welcome to my rebooted and relaunched Byzantine timeline, Isaac's Empire. I'd always intended to do a reboot of the TL, but recently, my reading of several contemporary historians, plus a feeling of general writer's block on the older TL, has compelled me to start IE all over again...

Since I'm quite interested in the late period of colonial empires, here's another one-- what does Africa look like in a world where the European colonial powers are able to retain dominance until at least the 1980s, and ideally until the present day? POD after, say, 1935.

I resurrect this topic on an annual basis, and it tends not to get a lot of attention, but here we go. Let's see if it works this time! Basically, my POD is the survival of the Emperor Otto III, a formidable man who'd been King (and then Emperor) since he was three years old. Otto's mother...

What, in your view, is the latest it's possible to keep the most powerful states of the Western world Mediterranean based, rather than Northern European based? Or is it impossible to do this once the inevitable discovery of the Americas takes place?

Here's an interesting nugget that I read last night... Apparently, back in 1937, the then Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden warned that Britain would consider actively interfering on the Republican side of the Spanish civil war if the Nationalists continued to attack British shipping in the...

I suggest 1979 because I've seen it referred to as the pivotal hinge year of the second part of the 21st century (Iranian revolution, beginnings of neo-liberalism in the Anglosphere, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan etc). And 1911 probably for obvious reasons, a year a century ago. The point of...

Having done an exam on Greek Ethics today, thought I'd pose this question to the forum. Is it plausible that at any point in the fourth or third centuries BC, a group of Greek colonists led by a visionary individual could have seriously attempted to set up a city state that functioned along the...

Inspired by the Brunei thread... In general, colonial empires were pretty religiously tolerant places, and tended not to repress those of differing religions to the colonial masters. My question is, what if colonialists, in this case the British in India, had decided it was worthwhile to put...

What would be the consequences for the wider Pacific War if Singapore does not fall to the Japanese? And how late a POD can you come up with to avoid the fall?

How would one go about getting a centralised Holy Roman Empire, with a POD after the death of Otto III? When is the best time to do it, and how would it be done? What does a centralised Reich look like?

Let's say the Ottomans stay neutral in the First World War or something, or perhaps even lean slightly into the pro-Allied camp: enough to retain their 1914 borders, but not enough to grab anything else. How do the Greeks, Armenians, Kurds etc fare?

I think I may have proposed this a while back, but I forget. Apologies if it's been done before, anyway, and feel free to ignore if so. How would one end up with alliance blocs looking like this in the first or second decade of the 20th century? And how does a major war go with these...