britain

By 1945 the second great war was coming to it's end, with every single member of the internationale, be in America like Mexico, the Argentinian Commune, Colombia, Centroamerica or Chile, be in europe like North italy, France and Norway, be the Commune in Bengal in asia, having already...

In 1997, Hong Kong was supposed to be given back to China from the UK. However, as we all know, that didn't happen. The Prime Minister said that it was something about the China they made the agreement with no longer existing when the transition was meant to happen. They made the agreement with...

Britain fights on the losing side of a world war and in the aftermath ends up getting the Germany/Korea treatment and is divided between the Soviets and the Americans. This may seem improbable but could occur in a scenario post the First World War where Britain goes Facist and sides with a...

The following is an eraser excerpt for a little idea of mine: what if the Trent Affair had been much messier? As you know, it's not easy developing an interesting story while maintaining at least some plausibility. This is more-less by POD... if you could provide thoughts, comments or even...

Bonus points if you have Central Powers America in the alt ww1

1919 was a hard period for Britian having just come out the war and there were a number of mutinys, strikes and riots across Britain during that period with some more prominent ones being the "Battle" of St George Square in Glasgow, The Luton Peace Day Riots and a Police Strike in June. Could...

Britannia Rules the Waves Rizal’s survival On 1896, Rizal and Josephine Bracken would be able to go to Cuba and was able to serve in Cuba to minster victims of Yellow Fever in Cuba and later goes on to the United States which would mean that his third book, Kamandagan would be finished which...

So I was listening to a podcast today that got me thinking. The guy being interviewed was discussing the history of “Sea Powers” and saying what made a nation a Sea Power, etc. During the talk, he mentioned how 1914 and Britain’s involvement in WWI was a case of Britain losing sight of her...

Introduction 18th July 2018 Rose Harris stood staring across the hillside in front of her. Behind her she could hear the distant sound of cars as the towns of Holmbridge and further north, Chesterfield slowly came to life. Wind blew from the south, flaunting the rules of international borders...

Since 2013, British succession laws to the Throne have been changed to every first born being the automatic heir no matter what gender the child is. But what if instead of Queen Elizabeth II bringing that law into place, Queen Victoria did? That would mean her daughter would become Queen...

Queen Elizabeth the II has ruled England for 65 years. Elizabeth's only sibling was Princess Margaret. Margaret was a bit of a scandal to the Royal Family during her lifetime. Considered a bit of a "loose woman", Margaret was known to have had multiple affairs during her lifetime. When her...

From what I gather, the Mechelen Incident is what prompted German High Command to switch to the Manstein Plan since they were spooked that the original Fall Gelb had fallen into Allied hands, and that had the incident not occurred they would have activated what amounted to Schlieffen 2.0 – which...

It would take a lot of persuation but consider if the Old Contempables, the Volunteers and the Conscripts of the Empire were trained and organised to todays standards? What a difference, what changes and saving in loss of life? So how to engineer it and then play it out in a timeline? Comments...

This is partly inspired by the discussion about Maratha India while considering the possibility of Britain still managing a partial conquest. In other words: if Britain (or the East India Company) had stopped, or rather, had been stopped, in its total conquest of India, where and when would...

Hello all! I just came from an interesting book binge about the preparations of the British military in the years leading up to WW2. Skipping the usual rant about morons, budgets and short-sightedness, let me ask this: if the British high command believed that the fighting would be similar to...

As we all know, the Briton peoples of what is now England apparently fled in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon invasions and settled in the Armorican peninsula in northwestern France, forming the modern cultural region of Brittany. But, less well-known is the Breton settlement of Galicia, in...

Grant, for the sake of argument, the survival of a Napoleonic (or at least French) Empire beyond 1814. Maybe Napoleon croaks after Tilsit. Regardless, the outlines of a Napoleonic Europe are going to be clear, with some degree of dominance over France’s “near abroad” in the Rhineland, northern...

I came across this while doing research for my TL. Namely that there's been a theory around since the 1780s that the Portuguese got to Australia before the French. The scenario I envisaged is a sort of scuffle breaking out when the French start claiming Australia (I really like the idea of the...

Wikipedia Article on the War of Jenkins' Ear Okay, so I'm not going to lie, this is a pretty minor conflict, but it might have interesting territorial implications if their had been a decisive victor instead of the conflict just sort of sputtering out, and the butterfly effect is not to be...

The King is Dead! Long Live the Queen! Queen Claimant of Spain, Maria Antonia of Austria, Electress of Bavaria "I'm the Heir! Not that French Bastard!" - Queen Maria I of Spain When the sickly King Carlos II of Spain died, the succession was disputed even though it was cleared early on that...