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Compared to many places in the world that use standard gauge, Britain has by the far the most restricted loading gauge which in many ways is due to the past of small tunnels during the early days of collieries and horse drawn coaches. But what if the British rail network had sometime during the...

In February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a judgement (fatwa) that sentenced author Salman Rushdie to death for his controversial book "The Satanic Verses". Numerous threats against the writer (who was living in the UK) and the bookstores selling the book followed...

I recognize this is a bad title, but I don't have anything better. When you look at OTL, a lot of the European Great Powers, and how they created their hegemony, make sense. France was the most populous nation on the continent, and life was often too good or too awful for their populous to...

O're Hills and Valleys Reign An abridged History of the Kingdom of Cumbry Chapter One Britain in the late 6th Century was in the midst of a struggle for the cultural heart of the island. On the one hand were the post-roman native Britons, on the other were the many germanic tribes that have...

Otl, when Teddy Roosevelt brought America into ww1 after the sinking of the lusitania, the Entente, now consisting of Russia, Britain, America and France, quite simply crushed the German Empire and Co. While the Treaty of Provence has been criticized for being excessivly cruel to Germany, with...

So, in an ATL where Britain stays out of WWI (German respect of Belgium, better pre-war relations with Germany, an earlier Irish imbroglio, etc), what chance is there that London would still try something in the Ottoman Empire? I would assume a July Crisis that sees Britain “Happily...”...

Start a Civil War between the Right and Left just after the 1974 general elections. *Either side can win *Very little foreign intervention

Start a Civil War between the Right and Left just after the 1974 general elections. *Either side can win *Very little foreign intervention

Assume that for whatever reason, the Conservatives lose in 1987. I suppose that a good PoD would be Thatcher taking Dennis's advice and retiring in 1986 or so, and her replacement does a poor job of electioneering, and Labour manage to get in. Let's also assume that Labour have something akin to...

With a POD no earlier than 1841 when the British came into control of Hong Kong, have modern day Hong Kong be a completely independent country of the UK and Communist China as it's own city state.

I can't find anything online, but a few months ago I saw in an Israeli newspaper a short article on how the British briefly considered annexing the Sinai after WWI. The idea was to separate its administration from Egypt's and declare it an overseas territory, the local Beduin tribes didn't like...

Few kings have had as successsful a rule as Karl The Great of Francia. Conquering from Catalonia to Bavaria, inspiring a burst of literacy and trade. Father of France and Germany and the first of many Holy Roman Emperors. But there remained two parts of western europe that Karl didn't subsume...

Lions Crown is a neat webcomic I recently read about a world where Napoleon lost at Leipzig, and this led to the French empire spiraling out of his hands over the next few years, in no small part because the russian tsar was brave enough to leave the continental system and France lost 80k men...

Thank you HeX for the idea. HeX made a universe, "A More Perfect Union", where the United States lived up to its ideals and became a bastion of liberty much earlier, exporting its beliefs sooner (and many of the negative aspects of the U.S. History were solved earlier such as racism being ended...

Credit to HeX. (Sorry if I caused problems for you earlier) What if: The British Empire went down in flames much quicker? Points of Divergence: Greatly-expanded American Influence throughout the world leads to the UK-USA rivalry. The British Empire finds rivals much sooner rather than later...

With a POD of 1400, your challenge is to create a scenario in which the British retain control of North America (which in this challenge, may grow no larger than OTL US, Canada, more of northern Mexico, and the Caribbean) and have it reach a population of at least 500 million people by 2019...

So I've been thinking about 19th Century British Socialism and it's made me wonder how a British Socialist state could form before 1900. So far I've got a 1880s Strike becomes a General one and things gets out of hand but I'm not entirely sure how that could work. Just to make things a bit...

Okay, so I've been slogging through some overly brief run-downs on extremely complicated South African history and more specifically the history of the Afrikaners/Boers for reasons that elude even me. Mostly brief skims of Wikipedia articles, if we're being honest. Anyways, the thing I want to...

With a Finality a 7 years war Timeline Treaty of Paris In the Treaty of Paris, most of the territories were restored to most of the original territories were restored to their original owner but Britain was allowed to keep considerable gains. France and Spain restored their conquests to...

This one is pretty obscure but interesting to me. So in 1914, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Serbian nationalists called the Black Hand. Austria was outraged and with support from Germany, threatened war if they couldnt investigate. Russia was mad Austria was acting in the Balkans without...