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Just stumbled across the Alternate History Wiki on Wikia. Looks interesting! (And apologies if it's been posted before...)

http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html A 'collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest'. An interesting way of putting the data for OTL, and perhaps interesting to speculate how these maps might be different in different ATLs...

Just saw this article on the BBC which says this was suggested by the French Prime Minister in 1956. It as rejected by Britain, but what if it had not been? In OTL, when it was rejected, the French then requested that France be allowed to join the British Commonwealth. This too was rejected...

In OTL Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel lived at the same time and each was aware of the work of the other, yet they neither seem to have made the link between their own work and that of the other, and never communicated with one another. What if they had? Could something like the Modern...

For an AH I'm working on: Say you have a large, powerful, nation which has just sucessfully tested an atomic weapon (so they're at perhaps a 1945-1950 level of technology). A second equally large and powerful nation, but one without a nuclear programme, is then able to steal a full copy of...

http://www.uq.net.au/%7Ezzhsoszy/ Particularly the Indian Princely States and the Mughal Empire.

The Escape of Charles II from England in 1651 during the English Civil War and with a price of £1000 on his head was apparently a key episode in his life. What if he had not escaped? Would he have been executed like his father? If so what implications would this have had for Britain and the...

Don't know if anyone's posted this before, but I though people might find it useful. It's a genealogy page with royal and noble family trees, including lists of rulers of many European countries. It's at http://genealogy.euweb.cz/index.html. Enjoy!

In OTL Charles II of England failed to have any legitimate children (though he had plenty of illegitimate ones). But what if he had a son, born in 1670, who became King Charles III? Assuming he takes the throne when Charles II dies, in 1685 (as in OTL, for the sake of argument), he needs a...

In OTL the Welsh Tract in Pennsylvania was intended to be a separate Welsh-speaking county with separate civil authority. But it never really happened and the Welsh Tract was split up among various non-exclusively-Welsh counties. So what if the Tract was established as intended? What effects...

According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Palace, when the Houses of Parliament burnt down in 1834, King William IV offered the then-incomplete Buckingham Palace to the nation as a replacement seat of government. The offer was declined and the old Palace of Westminster...

I just came across this map from here showing proposed divisions of Australia from The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Volume 8, 1838. Any ideas how Australia might have turned out if these divisions had been put into place instead of the ones in OTL?

Apparently Basque Spaniard Blasco de Garay, built a working example of a steam engine in 1543, and demonstrated by propelling a 200 ton ship [http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/garay/ and http://www.steamboats.com/research/1stboatalltheories.html]. But it never entered general service, and...

Apparently Napoleon was ill at the Battle of Borodino, and this affected his battle plans and overall running of the battle. What if he had not been ill then? Would the battle have gone differently, and thus the Russian campaign?

Apparently Joseph Stalin fought in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919 to 1921, as did Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Leon Trotsky and Felix Dzerzhinsky. What if he had been killed in the fighting? How might the Soviet Union, and indeed the world, have progressed without him? And what might have happened with...

This weeks New Scientist magazine has a set of articles on scientific what-ifs. These include what if: The Nazis had won. Newton had abandoned science. Electric motors had pre-dated steam engines. Darwin had not sailed on the Beagle. Charles II had no interest in science. A young...

Apparently Louis XV was known as the miracle child when he was young. He was the only surviving heir of Louis XIV of France at the age of four, after all of his close relatives died from various diseases. He was only saved by the actions of his governess, who stopped doctors bleeding him. What...