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Though via a rather different route...

See Cliveless World as an example of this...

Given that the second Mughal Emperor, Humayun, was in exile in Persia during this time, a different outcome of all of this could well abort the creation of the Mughal Empire too as Humayun didn't manage to regain his throne until 1545...

Like it. Good, interesting stuff. Keep it up!

I can imagine Labour are still going to lose the 1970 general election, just for different reasons than OTL, due to their anti-Union actions. So the Conservatives under Edward Heath are likely to come to power as they did in OTL, but with a different set of problems to deal with. Whether that...

Yes, that's the white paper. The 'white paper' link in my post goes to it. I don't really know enough about the period to be able to judge how it might have gone, as you say it could have gone either way. But it is an interesting question!

According to episode 3 of the History of Modern Britain on the BBC last night, in 1969 Barbara Castle produced a white paper which outlined a proposed act to curb the power of British Unions. However, despite support from the PM (Harold Wilson), and pleading from both him and Barbara Castle this...

Yes, that's why I was thinking of them on cross-Sahara trade routes.

I quite like the idea of US cavalry forts in the Wild West with lighthouses to guide the pioneers across the prairie...

The Taborites were a religious proto-Protestant community centered on the Bohemian city of Tábor during the Hussite Wars in the 15th century. They had a communist-like society, sharing all food and valuable supplies, but maintained their private property and land rights, promised that people...

Can anyone come up with a circumstance in which land lighthouses are still in use by the present day? I was wondering if perhaps they could somehow come into use on trade routes across the Sahara Desert, or something like that...

Well, the Swiss did have a nuclear programme in OTL, up until 1969. See here.

Both, in fact. No, it isn't. See Emperor Qianlong's reply. Yes, things are in the same place in the rocks, but depending on the research (and even the politcal) context in which they are dug up they may be interpreted very differently. The most extreme case I can think of off the top of...

Not sure I agree with that. After all, the Shogunate had an army three times larger than that of the other side. Surely it's not that unreasonable to posit that much of an advantage allowing them to actually win?!