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Initially the Qing Dynasty only accepted silver in trade. To bypass this the British East India Company smuggled Opium into China. In 1839 China burned the company's Opium store house. The Company retailed with the world' first Iron steam-warship Nemesis. It captured Nanjing in 1842 and...

Picture this. The French Revolution stabilized with the constitutional monarchy instead of turning republican, and the National Assembly endured. I know that the British public was quite receptive of the French Revolution in its earlier stages, before the republic and execution of Louis XVI. Is...

I'm looking here for an extreme Britain screw starting with a POD of 1945 with the aim of creating the least populous Britain possible. No nukes or large scale famines or natural disasters or communist takeovers or whatever. Just extremely bad government policies. The worst possible case...

I was reading Wikipedia for fun (as you do) and apparently what got Thatcher elected was union strikes in the 1970s. What happened was that when certain unions went on strike instead of generating sympathy as they expected it instead make people fucking hate them. There was even a novel written...

The Marburg files were a series of top-secret documents discovered in Germany during May 1945 near the Harz Mountains and compiled at Marburg Castle, Hesse. These documents detailed plans for the Nazi's in using the Duke of Windsor and former King Edward as a pawn to form peace, reinstate him to...

MOD EDIT This is my second timeline although it can be very unrealistic or full of holes. This story is basically a Cold War story where Britain joins the Cold War on their own side under Republicism and Libertarian Socialism. This is a spin on "British supremacy" and "Red Scare" aesthetic.

Come up with a timeline that allows for Britain to speak North Germanic, while also only allowing for either no or very limited settlement from other groups, such as the Saxons, Jutes, etc, ever. The POD can be whenever, as long as other groups (such as the ones listed above) don't have a large...

The Fools Who Dream An Account of mid-18th Century Europe at War. The Seven Years’ War, French and Indian War, Third Silesian War, etc., whatever you want to call it, was undoubtedly a pivotal moment in history. It’s no wonder that it is (relatively) so often the subject of alt-history works...

An American citizen relative by close affinity or consanguinity of the British Monarch or PM runs for President, would his rival use this connections against him or would he or she be disqualified?

One of the causes of the American Revolution was the massive taxation on import goods, such as tea, molasses, sugar and even paper items, that coupled with Britain interfering in their American colonies more and halting American expansion further west. However, where did these taxes come from...

Jolly Good! 15th December 1975, Buckingham Palace, London Captain Saunders regarded me and smiled amiably, as always. “For the record, sir, me and mine are very grateful,” he said. He must have seen some semblance of shock and awe on my face, for he simply nodded as I did and asked, “Ready...

(Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I just think that the POD would need to be pre-1900, for this to work. If this is the wrong forum, can the mods move it please? Thanks.) As I understand it, (I'm not British myself, so I apologize if I'm wrong,) the UK is in a weird state, where it is...

I was reading about the Norse invasions of Britain, and how many of them settled there, and how the Old Norse language influenced the dialects of Northern England, but as far as I can tell, they never settled in numbers great enough to permanently leave behind the Norse language after the...

Planning to start a personal Alt-history scenario which includes Britain as a central power, and just wanted some thoughts on what might happen if they ended up losing, as almost every UK central power scenario or discussion entails them winning. So, in a WW1 scenario in which the ending...

On 1521, Brunei has known about Ferdinand Magellan and heard about the feats of Lapu Lapu and Lapu Lapu Slaying Magellan. Abdul Kahar was so amazed at the defeat of Ferdinand Magellan and his own team after his defeat, and he heard about his relative being captured by the Elcano expedition, he...

PREFACE I would begin by expressing my gratitude to everyone in this vibrant and knowledgeable community for encouraging and inspiring me to actualise this idea. As a long-time alternate history hobbyist, I have been reading forum discussions and stories for a few years. I always want to write...

I came across a book titled "Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin" written by Sherard Cowper-Coles and printed in 2012. He had been the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Afghanistan in the 2000s, and most relevant to this discussion, the head of the Hong Kong...

Chapter 1, The Battle of Porto Praya Suffren’s Shadow: A History of the Naval War in the Indian Ocean, 1777-1783 The Battle of Porto Praya, for all of its diminutive size compared to other great naval battles of the American Revolution, compared to First Ushant, the Chesapeake, Grenada, the...

Hi, everyone. This is my second post sharing some lesser-known yet fascinating PoDs in European history. I stumbled upon a historical academic journal written by Frederik Dhondt, a history professor from the Ghent University in Belgium titled "So Great a Revolution’: Charles Townshend and the...

What if the so called cultural "British Invasion" movement in the mid-60s was a real, full fledged invasion across the Atlantic? Whatever the justifications for this war, its outcome and consequences are up to you - all I ask is that there is no POD prior to 1945 ;)