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That doesn't really seem like something Redmond would do at all. He might have been strung along by the Liberals and known it, but he always knew who the real enemy was and how disastrous an election would've been at that point.

Balfour Ministry II: Electric Boogaloo pretty much totally derails British foreign policy by eliminating Grey from the picture; I can't see the Tories maintaining the Russian entente at all when the Liberals had such a hard time with it themselves although Henry Wilson, noted traitor, would...

I always thought that map was remarkable for having Austria as a participant in the "dismember Germany" party (huh?) and having to compensate by, apparently, speaking Italian, going by the place names there.

Okay, there's a pretty colossal difference of scale between the situation in the Greek East and the situation in Gaul. I'm as down on the general historical Greek tendency to be depressingly, unconstructively fratricidal as anybody, but while men like Antigonos, Antiochos, and Seleukos never...

Yeah, that's off by a century. It's been recognized since Mommsen (more recently, Arthur Eckstein has written multiple books on the subject) that Rome's macrohistorical "turn" to the Greek East happened around 200 BC, and was connected to the Second Makedonian War and the war against Antiochos...

Hi, I'm new here, but I wrote something with a decidedly similar PoD (basically, victory at Sandepu) over the last few months and posted it on another forum. It's finished, about 80k words and a butt ton of footnotes. I was actually thinking about posting it here but then I saw this thread and...

Pft, Franconians have better beer than both of them and will one day liberate themselves from bayerisch oppression

The German Confederation plus the rest of Prussia and Schleswig.

Mmm, I honestly think that Antiochos Grypos would've put up more of a fight than that, but what's done is done. What happened to Kleopatra Selene in the wreck of the Seleukid Empire? She'd make a decent wife (and she'd almost certainly have been gunning for the position herself)...

Fundamentally, France and Britain were unwilling and unready to go to war in 1908-9. Russia, potentially, was - all they have to do is reject Bülow's "Yes or No" note, which was theoretically an option - but they would have done so alone. As an aside, most of the initial revulsion in the...

I think most economic historians of any note have shied away from any sort of single-cause model for the GD. Interest rates weren't the only, maybe even not the primary, factor. It's a lovely cocktail. But the Federal Reserve's interest rates were tied quite closely to the Allied war effort...

Well, the far right did get reasonably popular in the early thirties in OTL despite France having won the war. François de la Rocque and his ilk didn't just come out of nowhere, and the rioting of the far right and alleged coup attempts on their part led pretty much directly to the...