british empire

THE IRON CURTAIN Speaking before Petrograd University in 1946, Winston Churchill first used the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe what at that time was already becoming readily apparent: the division of Europe following the conflagration of the Second World War into an communist-dominated West...

It is finally time for me to start my not-so-long-teased new TL (which I teased a lot more in the Our Fair Country Discord server, and is actually just a reboot of an earler TL I did)! Presenting, Patagonia 2.0! This will function similarly to many excellent TLs such as Our Fair Country, A...

Hello all. This timeline is one in which the American colonists and the British agree to a compromise in 1774 following a Whig victory in that year’s general election. This means that the American Revolution never occurs, and the 13 colonies continue on as British territory, albiet with a...

A relatively obscure rebellion against the British crown was put down, with George Washington, its ringleader, being executed and the rest of the leaders exiled to some godforsaken land in the middle of nowhere. I had a theory that if they won a few more battles, some European powers could have...

Okay, so I'm sure that most of you are familiar with Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, where, after a syndicalist revolution breaks out in Britain due in part to their defeat in the Great War, the British government and the royal family fled to Canada. This scenario... isn't Kaiserreich. It...

OTL, the British occupied the core parts of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia0 during the Napoleonic wars and considered annexing the Dutch East Indies outright. Assuming that for whatever reason this went through (well, whatever reason that isn't a Napoleonic victory, which is the best way for...

This thread will not be about the POD. Let’s just say, that for any reason at all, India never gets colonized by Britain or any other european power. How might things change in India and what are some potential butterflies of this?

There is a recent thread about how the Anglo-Indian community was created. There are always exceptions, but on the whole they spoke English (as it developed in India, with words like 'lakh' and 'crore'), were Christians, often Church of England, and loyal to the British Empire, but with an...

We all know that before the Normans, another foreigner landed on English shores and nearly stole the crown- Harold Hadrada of Norway. Unfortunately, in landing first, he had to deal with the English at their best, and was unable to take much beyond york. But what if his and William's fortunes...

'Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour".' Your task is to make this a reality - have the British Empire last for one thousand years or more...

WI Britain had been able to keep Oregon and Hawaii?

Nobody Expects For some time I've been following (and, of course, enjoying) some of the great graphic timelines of this forum: Kanan's Our Fair Country, LeinadB93's Hail, Britannia, KaiserEmu's Of Droughts and Flooding Rains and Planita13's A Shining Valley; and I have felt the impulse to try...

Prompt/Idea/Challenge for the People! What if instead of George III being physical capable but plagued by mental illness it was the other way around? What if he was mentally sound and healthy but physically frail? George III was born 2 months prematurely and was thought unlikely to survive...

This challenge asks you to make a scenario in which the 1848 revolutions spread to the colonies of Britain and France and so on. Bonus points for references to the Sepoy mutinies and creating republican movements in India

Or even more ironically; Happy Dependence Day! Prompt/Idea for the People! What if in the aftermath of the 7 years war, when the colonists loyalty to the mother-country was greater than ever, and the camaraderie and celebratory feelings it brought about along with the use of colonial soldiers...

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...

With a pod from the reign of King George III who was a very active monarch till around the 1890's British Empire how can the Crown retake power from Parliament and unofficially sideline the parliament into a rubber stamp like how the French Kings (Louis XIV) did it and Augustus sidelining the...

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...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is thus-Create a TL where britain survives as a major power, only losing a maximum of two major colonies, and the surviving colonies have a more equal governance. I imagine that the soviets would have to be more aggressive in southern Europe and the...