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  1. morbidteaparty

    Chariots of Fire: A Brief Summary of the 1980 Summer Olympics

    Ministers of Sport, Imperial State of Iran, Provisional Government of the Iranian Peoples Republic, Council of State of the Iranian State Hassan Pakravan, Minister of Sport (SAVAK), 1973 - 1975 Major General Ali Motazed, Minister of Sport and Director of the Olympic Programme (Army), 1975 -...
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    Mundial: An alternative history of the Football World Cup

    This is aimed as an alternate history of the various World Cups rather than a straight AH, though obviiously the changing political situation from 1930 onwards will factor in. Be prepared for idiocy, insularity and some different tournaments. Without further ado, let's start with Montevideo's...
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    One of the Great Disappointments of My Life, Perhaps the Greatest

    D.D. Eisenhauer, who has died aged seventy-eight, is widely recognised as one of the most innovative artists within the Heartland School, an art movement he himself helped to establish in the 1920s and 30s as a reaction against the inroads of surrealism and abstract expression that began to...
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    A Most Glorious Revolution: Spain and the Liberal Era, 1870-1913

    Introduction "Looking for a democratic monarch in Europe is like looking for an atheist in heaven." General Juan Prim, 1869 The quest of the Spanish liberals to establish a new royal dynasty free from the vestiges of the House of Bourbon in the aftermath of the deposition of Isabella II had a...
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    Against the General's Tide: Chile's robust democracy, 1970-1990

    By R.H.D. Thomson, Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield (1994) The Chicago Boys: 1970-1976 The bitter, rancorous campaign of 1970 which had seen American backed rightist candidate Jorge Alessandri return to the presidency, was a marker of a semantic, polarising shift in Chilean...
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    The Goat, Honest Stan and Ramshackle Mac: An Interwar History of Britain

    Preface The election of December 1918, which closed out a parliament that had sat since the faded memory of late 1910, is frequently heralded as the great realignment election of the era, the powers of the Representation of the People Act[1] massively expanding the franchise, and replacing the...
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    Lead & Rain in Santiago: A History of the Fragmented Democracy of the Republic of Chile from 1970-

    The Chicago Boys: 1970-1976 The bitter, rancorous campaign of 1970 which had seen American backed rightist candidate Jorge Alessandri return to the presidency, was a marker of a semantic, polarising shift in Chilean politics, as the continued influence of the Cold War pulled at nations on it's...
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    New Unions and Fragmented Realities

    “Justice is a name to which every knee will bow, equality is a word which many fear and detest.” The above quote, from Hobhouse, in many ways aptly characterises the political struggles, societal fears and cultural tensions that marked the United Kingdom in the two decades that led on from the...
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    A Dingy Aesthetic: A Vignette

    It has often been stated in literary theory that a writer’s style will vary in accordance with changes in their own personal experiences. Nowhere has this been more apparent in the stylistic shifts employed by one of Britain’s underrated poets, Robert Browning. Originally associated with the...
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    Examples of Suburban Postmodernism: A Vignette

    CBS today announced the cancellation of the acclaimed Calvin and Hobbes animated series after two seasons, following poor ratings and tensions between the network and the comic strip’s creator Bill Watterson who had served as the show’s lead animator and writer. Reports of conflict between...
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    The Musical Experimentation of Bill Blythe: A Very Short AH

    Briefly known as William Jefferson Clinton for a time during his adolescence, the jazz musician Bill Blythe announced today his retirement from touring for health reasons. After an early life of poverty in Arkansas, Blythe would become one of the most respected jazz musicians of his era, winning...
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    The Opportunistic Doctor Savimbi: Notes From Luanda

    January 1977 The room was whitewashed, and a pleasant breeze swept through the open window. The heat, which had clung to everything in the last few days had begun to dissipate, though the dust which had plagued them for the last few days remained a minor hazard. Reaching for a cigarette...
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    Gesta Ricardus Ducis Normannorum et Regis Anglorum

    WILLIAM OF SHREWSBURY THE HISTORY OF RICHARD, DUKE OF NORMANDY AND KING OF THE ENGLISH Icon of William of Shrewsbury PREFACE The following Books will endeavour to chronicle the history of the reign of King Richard of England [1], with the addition of whatever in his time, happened...
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    A Most Glorious Revolution: Savoyard Spain

    "Looking for a democratic monarch in Europe is like looking for an atheist in heaven." (General Juan Prim, on his search for a monarch willing to be democratically elected.) "The Spanish people are ungovernable." (King Amadeus I on the event of his abdication in 1873.) 30 May 1867 The day...
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    Agonies of Confusion on the Brain: An Alternative History of the British Left

    I originally thought of this during a (failed) PhD application to study the development and history of the British Left before the outbreak of World War I. Then I failed to secure funding and decided to withdraw my application, and left this to mothball. Figured it could be interesting to...
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    One Day in Berlin

    It has long been debated within the historiography of German politics, whether the assassination of Kaiser Wilhelm I, was the great catalyst for political change that it has often been portrayed as. Regardless of whether or not it was, his death had several repercussions. The first of...
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    The Frankfurt Connection: The 1848 Revolutions

    As some of you may, or may not be aware, my first timeline on this thread was "Almond Tree" and was about a more successful 1848 revolutions. Now while I don't think it was particularly bad, I feel that it requires a rewrite to really reach its potential. So without further ado, here is The...
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    A New Union: A British Poltical TLIAW

    POD Essentially, the Liberal wartime government passes the recommendations of the Speaker's Conference of 1916-17 and agree to the adoption of STV for general elections in the United Kingdom, which had been used in Ireland and in the university constituencies previously. However the amendment to...
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    Cavendish in Downing Street, Gandhi in Pretoria: A TLIAW

    The premise of this timeline, is that with a different government to the Disraeli ministry of 1874-1880 of OTL, Britain pursues a different foreign policy, particularly in regards to South Africa, and spends the resources and troops used during the Afghan War of 1878-1880 on the First Boer War...
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    Thy Do Succeed Thy Father

    So I'm taking a break from my 1848 timeline for the moment (which for those interested I have much material on) and have decided to do a Tudor based timeline. Hopefully it works, and I don't fall flat on my face. POD So the premise of this timeline is that Arthur, Prince of Wales doesn't die in...
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