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Can anyone recommend a good thread or timeline that includes a much earlier construction of an English Channel Tunnel? Not just earlier in terms of date, but earlier in the sense of being achieved with less advanced technology. It doesn't need to be main story of the timeline! Thanks

Can anyone recommend a good thread or timeline dealing with how a much later American Civil War between the North and South - in the 1880s or 1890s - would have been fought?

Suppose Queen Victoria had become an adult without being the queen. What would she have done? ..................................... “… There are few sadder stories in the history of the House of Hanover than the death of Princess Charlotte of Wales in 1817. Charlotte was the only legitimate...

San Marino was a tiny state in Italy , apparently founded in AD 301 as Chrstian Community by a stonecutter called Marinus the Dalmatian. It was annexed by one of its neighbours in the Middle Ages and so disappeared from history. The only reason that people ever hear of the place today is that...

Point Of Departure Eastern Mediterranean , late 2nd century AD His name doesn’t really matter, and is sadly lost to history anyway. He was a priest, and surely needed Lord Jesus tonight. At the urging of his fellow Christians in Antioch he’d taken passage on a ship to Alexandria and...

Stalin, of course, wasn't Russian - he was Georgian. But suppose, despite his ruthlessness - or even because of his ruthlessness - he is outmanoeuvered by his fellow Bolsheviks and the guy who comes out on top after Lenin is Gustav Klinger - from another minority group, the Volga Germans. It's...

I'm thinking of starting a timeline that begins at about the time of the Georgia Goldrush - say 1832. One of my chief protagonists would be named Charles - but would Americans of that era call him "Chuck"? "Chuck" still isn't common in England now, so it's hard for me to judge - and I've not...

You may have seen Iceland has just elected the world's first married , straight Prime Minister. Now, ever since Emperor Hadrian nominated Antinous as his successor, it's been a tradition in the West that full-time political leaders should be gay - or celibate and straight. That's how it's been...

Can someone help me with a rather specialised AH scenario I want to develop? Essex was one of the Saxon kingdoms of England until the early 800s , when it was dominated by Mercia and then subsumed into Wessex. Is there any way that if could have survived as separate from the rest of England...

The Coast of the Great Sea, Kingdom of Egypt, Year of Our Lord 1910, seventh year of the Glorious Reign of Abraham the Twelfth Prince Yohanan was feeling quite pleased with himself. Nobody had told him that this little palace by the sea even existed – typically inefficient courtiers! – but by...

Another place I haven't been to....... I know the ancient Egyptians used barges on the Nile, but how stormy does it get on the river near Cairo? Are you likely ever to get sea-sick travelling on it? (This may seem a dumb question, but I have my reasons)

I've never been to Istanbul / Constantinople, but I guess a lot of people here are pretty knowledgeable - Byzantium being one of the favourite subjects of AH here. I understand the Bosphorus is only about 700 m wide at some point. Can someone please advise me: I think I've read somewhere that...

As a fairly new guy here, I'm still finding my way around..... Can somebody please tell me - is there already somewhere here a good 'No French Revolution' timeline?

The idea of abolishing the British monarchy crops up in the media every once in while. I've wondered about doing a timeline in which the monarchy was abolished some decades ago , so that the UR (we wouldn't be the UK any more!) has presidential elections every seven years or so. The President...