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  1. Macaulay's Failure

    In 1835 Thomas Babington Macaulay (who served on the Supreme Council of India between 1834 and 1838) wrote his famous Minute on Indian Education and managed to convince the Governor General of the East India Company to adopt English in secondary education...

  2. Bismarck gets his wish

    Bismarck was tremendously disappointed when Napoleon III was captured by Prussian troops in the aftermath of the battle of Sedan: the capture of the emperor put the Bonapartist regime in jeopardy and removed the only party with whom he might have negotiated a quick armistice and peace treaty...

  3. WI: Habsburg Empire Collapses in 1848

    Can the Springtime of the Peoples put an end to the Habsburg empire in 1848? After the resignation of Metternich on 13 March 1848 there were 4 governments in as many months. The emperor left Wien (where the revolt was successful) and repaired to Innsbruck. Insurrections occurred in Italy...

  4. The Last Pope

    I've been musing for some time on the somehow unlikely chain of events that resulted in an unbroken (or almost unbroken) chain of popes for almost 2000 years (it should be obvious from the beginning that I am not postulating any kind of divine intervention). There have been at least a dozen of...

  5. Jurists say Arab's rape conviction sets dangerous precedent

    "Rape by Deception" is a new one for me. If this curious legal doctrine were to be applied worldwide, there would be plenty of men convicted... http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/jurists-say-arab-s-rape-conviction-sets-dangerous-precedent-1.303109

  6. Early Suez

    We know for sure that a connection between Mediterranean and red sea was existing in Pharaonic times. More recently, a connection was existing in Arab times, until the 8th century. Then the canal went to pot. I find it difficult to understand why: in the 8th century the caliphate was...

  7. Why Venice ...

    was politically so stable over a period of more than 1000 years? The political settings in the Republic were certainly modified during her history (mostly between the 9th and the 15th century), but overall the trend was always very smooth, and never too bloody. It looks like that the Grand...

  8. No Black Death

    What about no Black Death in the 14th century? You may have a minor insurgence of bubonic pestilence, or even nothing at all. In any case there not the equivalent of OTL Black Death, which is supposed to have killed 25 million people in Europe alone, or 1/3 of the population. My guess is that...

  9. The Great King Lives

    Well, the POD is the battle of Issus, in South-Eastern Anatolia. The battle of Issus was not a given: Alexander's army was outnumbered, largely, even if we discount the less effective Persian levies. The Persian army had succeeded in cutting the line of supply of the Greeks, and was occupying a...

  10. Lord Darcy's Angevin Empire

    From 1964 to 1979, Randall Garett published several detective stories set in an alternative history. The time appears to be the 18th or early 19th century and Western Europe is ruled by an Anglo-French monarchy, the Angevin Empire. Germany is still a collection of small, unhappy states and...

  11. Technological WI: Better Technology exchange between China and Europe

    1. The Horse Collar: China. Third Century BC. About the fourth century BC the Chinese devised a harness with a breast strap known as the trace harness, modified approximately one hundred later into the collar harness. Unlike the throat-and-girth harness used in the West, which choked a horse and...
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