britain

I'm unsure of how best to phrase the title, but what if, instead of invading France before Russia was ready, the German Empire focused on crushing the Russian bear? Say instead of invading Belgium, Germany, learning from the ACW and Russo-Japanese war, expected a slow and bogged down war and...

As expected, the 1992 UK election resulted in a hung parliament with Labour holding the most seats. But what if John Major had been able to pull off an upset and the Tories had won in 1992?

pod: Kaiser willy imposes to stay defensive on french front focusing to destroy Russia first( no one knows how really weak the tsarist troops are), Moltke disobeys and is forced to resign, welcome falkenhayn( no schlieffen) .Britain might join the war anyway but not in 1914. France is arrogant...

What if when during the argument with the Catholic Church over the right to Annul his marriage Henry VIII decided that it was more appealing to convert to Orthodoxy rather than joining to an untested religious movement he had previously argued against. How much opposition would he face in doing...

The French and their allies win the Seven Years War and the French Empire becomes the biggest and most influential empire in human history like the British Empire in our timeline. Here are the point of departures to this timeline. When the Seven Years War first started the French had a lot of...

So this was supposed to just be an experiment with using the wikipedia battle wikibox editor and Victoria 2 battle analyser to do some worldbuilding around a particularly massive battle I had in my last game. But I want so far overboard with writing the scenario I figured I might as well post it...

As we all know, the United States of America and Great Britain have been bitter enemies ever since the former became independent from the latter, and have fought several wars against each other. Would have been possible for the two countries to improve their relationship or even become allies?

British Luzon Treaty of Paris During the war, Great Britain had conquered the French colonies of Canada, Guadeloupe, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tobago, the French "factories" (trading posts) in India, the slave-trading station at Gorée, the Sénégal...

Part One: The Drums of War King Frederick II, seen here venerated by the Silesian estates, by Wilhelm Camphausen, 1882 The first drums of war were heard all over Europe when the hooves of the Prussian cavalry horses began to step into Silesia. Prussia, under Frederick II was a fledgling nation...

I always wondered this. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other that I can list are dominions and territories are associated with UK and recognized the British Monarch as their sovereign. However, most of them still have things, like Independence Days, and their own foreign affairs and...

If you look at a map of the world you can usually find a place that escaped the europeans during colonialism. your ethiopias, japans, or turkeys. There is one massive exception. The Americas. There isn't an industrialized Incan Republic, or a Chinook empire from Alaska to the Bay of California...

Let’s say that in the middle of the 19th century the British and Russian Empires got into a personal union through Alexander II and Queen Victoria getting married. How would this new empire shape history? Where would it he headed from? London? St. Petersburg? Or would it have two capitals? How...

France like in real life loses the Seven Years War and in this alternate timeline the French colony of Louisiana is ceded to Britain not Spain. All the French Canadians (Both Acadiens and Quebecois) are exiled from North America thus resulting in the French Canadians heading to France for refuge...

Im slowly coming around to think that there was never really another workable solution for the British Empire. The problem is many fold and it centers on Russia. With railway building and rearmament Russia had by 1914 a booming economy and reformed and improved its army to a degree that even...

Anglo-Qing Axis Foreword In this Timeline the Americans and Japanese would go Socialist and later turn into Social Democrat countries similar to the Nordic countries and China, Britain and Russia would remain monarchist countries and the primary world powers and Britain and Canada is the...

Lloyd George was undoubtedly one of the most important British prime ministers in the 20th century, leading the Wartime Coalition government and leading his country to victory in World War I. In addition, he was already a powerful figure in British politics by the time he became prime minister...

There was a planned invasion of Britain that France was preparing but due to losses at the Battles of Le Havre, Lagos, and Quiberon Bay it was cancelled. But what in a alternate timeline France did not suffer losses at the Battles of Le Havre, Lagos, and Quiberon Bay and invades Britain. Would...

Say that Britain in the 1840s has strategic or economic interests in California and sees it as best for them to prevent a wider, violent conflict between the U.S. and Mexico over the region. Could they possibly act as a mediator over the situation and prevent the Mexican-American War? Could...

King Ralph is a movie released in 1991 based on the novel Headlong by Emlyn Williams. On the surface it's a standard 90's fish out of water comedy but definitely falls in the category of alternate history as well. In it Finland is depicted as having a Royal Family and a nation state called...

Great Britain and Germany, with the exception of the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, were largely antagonistic with each other. They called each other despots and imperialists, yet they shared much in common. Germany had the potential of Great Britain, but repressed itself to minor colonial...