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  1. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    One of histories greatest pieces of blame shifting propaganda whos anonymous authors included an ex-Mosleyite Tory and a far left unilateralist who had openly criticised Baldwin for pursuing rearmament.

  2. Development of British Isles if Margaret, Maid of Norway Lives

    . I’d imagine that Scottish would be more readily synonymous with Gaelic as Scots has only recently finished eclipsing it. Given there is already a lot of shared history and linguistic similarities between Scots speakers and northern middle English speakers perhaps otl Scots becomes perceived...

  3. Would A Surviving Soviet Union Have A Internet Or Intranet?

    Depends on whether you define totalitarianism as just a system that prohibits opposition and dominates public life (the USSR for all of it’s existence) or one that also requires one individual to have principle control of that kind of power (witch arguably still applies to Khrushchev).

  4. Bush vs. The Axis of Evil - TL

    Not done reading yet but I just wanted to point out the Gagauz are turkic Christians not Muslims.

  5. Bonnie Prince Charlie reinforces Scotland

    Which they won’t be now that the Jacobites are an external threat to England rather than an internal dynastic and political faction. The English Jacobites are just as likely to change their priorities in response to the Stuarts opposing the acts of union (and thus Englands security) as their...

  6. WI: The Seventh Crusade takes Egypt

    Other sources say the Armenians and given they also purportedly stole the minbar when the Mongols burned it again in 1281 I’d suggest they are more likely suspects.

  7. WI: The Seventh Crusade takes Egypt

    Your evidence for regularly burning mosques appears to be one mosque during a Mongol sacking, probably burned by the Armenians given the Mongols apparently executed some of them for it. All the really shows is that medieval sieges were often very brutal (which I suspect is hardly a surprise to...

  8. WI Ireland took advantage of the Falklands War to launch a sneak attack on Britain and liberate Ulster?

    Truly unclear why the Irish government would court the most moderate Unionist leader since partition and not his mortal enemies who already want reunification.

  9. Map Thread XXII

    Sneaky 32 county Ireland / British reconquest?

  10. Flag Thread V

    I quite like the design, but whilst I think the original was too busy I feel it’s a mistake to get rid of the arrow. I feel like the arrow as a very subtle nod to the Union Flag is definitely one of the more unique points as Australian flag redesigns rarely seem to do that, it also adds a unique...

  11. AHC Have Republicans successfully repeal the 22nd Amendment

    Personally I would lean more toward the view that the New Deal helped to alleviate rather than prolong the depression, but I would look askance at any ‘actual historian’ drawing an implicit comparison between challenging it’s results and Holocaust denialism.

  12. President Huey Long in the 30s-50s, does America become like Argentina?

    Argentine GDP shrank in multiple years under CFK and plummeted under Fernandez not to mention the chronic inflation issues. It’s also quite possible to grow an economy with generous spending whilst damaging its fundamentals.

  13. The allegation that WWI's outcome and map of Europe left Germany in a stronger position than the pre-WWI situation

    I was going to be snarky about “Perfidious Albion” but I’m genuinely fascinated as to why an argument that post-war Germany had more strategic manoeuvrability then pre would be British propaganda.

  14. Crusader Kings II - Paradox Entertainement (02/12)

    Oh there’s a version of A.T.E. ck2 that includes South America? Neat!

  15. Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    Fascinating maps, although the first’s a poor example of plans to divide Lebanon given that greater Lebanon’s extent (and thus if it would include the Litani) was very much in flux in 1919.

  16. Effects on WW1 on Cilicia instead of Gallipoli

    Unlikely to have the time to dig out my copy of A Line in the Sand until the weekend so take this with a pinch of salt. To my knowledge French troops were outnumbered more than 5:1 by imperial troops at Gallipoli and were completely excluded from the planning of the actual landing. I think that...

  17. Effects on WW1 on Cilicia instead of Gallipoli

    One disadvantage that’s missing here, which was an important factor otl, is that an an Alexandretta landing risks really antagonising France. Since Napoleon III the French right have considered Syria their exclusive area of interest and they were tremendously suspicious of British incursion into...

  18. WI: British are allowed to finish off Vietnamese Communists?

    My understanding is that by the time Britain withdrew the Vietnamese communists were beginning to move toward the sort of rural, guerrilla warfare that proved so difficult to deal with later. Given Britain’s own forces are eager to return home and the rest is a mixture of Japanese POW and...

  19. All American Orthodoxy: What if Joseph Smith discovered a Coptic Septuagint?

    Ah, fair enough. Sorry for my misunderstanding.

  20. All American Orthodoxy: What if Joseph Smith discovered a Coptic Septuagint?

    Describing Mormon’s religious texts as the ‘Bible-‘ isn’t commenting on the objective qualities of Smiths translation it’s announcing your subjective opinion about the merits of their religion.
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