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  1. Libyan bomb in Sheffield, UK

    In the late eighties there was a bomb scare in Sheffield when a Libyan dissident spotted a suspicious package under his car, parked outside a supermarket. The army bomb squad was called out, but it proved to be a false alarm. Suppose it hadn't been. Assume the bomb squad successfully defuse the...

  2. Margaret Thatcher assassinated - effects nationally and internationally?

    The plausible candidates to succeed Thatcher would probably be Nigel Lawson, Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary Leon Brittan, Home Secretary Michael Heseltine, Defence Secretary. Norman Tebbit, Trade and Industry Secretary The first three hold the top three cabinet posts, and the...

  3. AHC: Church of England as a "4th" Abrahamic Religion

    An alternate version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of Britain could perhaps work as a third testament.. Geoffrey claim his history is translated from a Latin original, written by the Prophet Saint Merlin, son of the Archangel Michael. This history includes extensive prophecies by Merlin...

  4. Henry V and France

    One obvious consequence is no marriage to Catherine of Valois. Since one of the theories on Henry VI's mental breakdown is that it was inherited from Charles VI of France, via Catherine, that should be avoided, derailing the Wars of the Roses.

  5. Edward VIII reigns during WWII - What is the worst he could do?

    If he reached Germany alive, the UK would probably follow the precedents set by the Glorious Revolution. Like James II, Edward VIII would be deemed to have effectively abandoned his throne, leaving Parliament free to pick a replacement.

  6. Napoleon doesn't invade Russia. What are the consequences?

    And he didn't have many other plausible targets, besides Russia. He didn't have the navy needed to invade Great Britain, and marching his armies north into the Arctic or south into the Sahara was simply not an option. Three is one other option though: follow in the path of Alexander the Great...

  7. AHC: Phoenician Cyprus

    I can't see Rome having that kind of hands-off policy, not without other major changes. However, suppose Phoenician Cyprus goes into alliance with Rome during the Punic Wars, supplying a navy. Eventually, like many of Rome's other allies, it becomes part of the Empire, but remains Phoenician...

  8. The Whale has Wings

    What's the chance that the Italian plans will get leaked to the Germans? As far as I know, they didn't deliberately spy on their allies, but there will be Italian officers and officials who tell the Germans things for assorted reasons - personal friendships, because they're allies, simple...

  9. A Blunted Sickle

    It all depends when Stalin turns on Hitler. If, at one extreme, Russia attacks Germany when the western allies are on the ropes, saving them from seemingly inevitable defeat, the outcome will be close to our time line. At the other extreme, if the allies think German defeat is inevitable when...

  10. AHC: English victory in Hundred Years War

    My mistake. On checking the family tree I was looking at, it didn't have Charles V's children listed in birth order. Undoubtedly, which is why I went for an option where English sovereignty in France ended up being purely nominal, outside one duchy, sidestepping those problems. The key steps...

  11. AHC: English victory in Hundred Years War

    Charles VI has no sons. On his death, the Salic law claim goes to Louiis III of Naples, who also had a claim to the throne of Aragon., through a female line. Suspicion that Louis will use the wealth of France to gain that third throne leads to considerable opposition from other interested...

  12. Maybe The Horse Will Learn To Sing

    If Cameron had to stay in hospital, even briefly, would Brown consider visiting him, even if only for the PR benefits? Of course, if he did, the other party leaders would need to go too.

  13. Change of Death date as POD

    Perhaps. Under the Royal Marriages act, Edward couldn't marry without asking monarch's permission. Assuming his father said no, Edward would have to wait a year, unless both houses of parliament formally objected to the marriage, in which case he wouldn't have been able to legally marry Wallis...

  14. Change of Death date as POD

    King George V died at 70, in 1936, sparking the abdication crisis. If he lived another 3-5 years, WWII would have almost certainly started. How would the political turmoil of the abdication interact with the war? Changing the date of other UK monarch's deaths would have less potential impact...

  15. AHC A Continued Tudor Dynasty

    You could have one of them marry a male Tudor. E.g, Mary, OTL's Queen of Scots, marries a male-line grandson of Jasper Tudor, and her son, James Tudor, inherits from Elizabeth I.

  16. The Whale has Wings

    Would the British, Commonwealth, and American forces necessarily get the same landing beaches as OTL though? If the US forces end up on the left flank, rather than the right, that will affect which army makes the fastest progress.
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