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Let's say that our dear friend William of Normandy takes a trip off of a parapet, or is attacked in his bed by a snake, or is shot from behind a grassy knoll while on a hunting trip, or some such. Let's just removed him from the picture before Edward the Confessor, too, kicks the bucket. We're...

At several points, the Viking invasions of Britain came close to subjugating all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, eventually succeeding in the late 10th century. However, the earlier the Danes conquer England, the less entrenched the idea of an unified England in the first place. If the Danes win...

OTL, when Elizabeth died at the beginning of the 17th century, the Stuarts went south to London and for all intents and purposes, the British Isles were under a single king. My question relates to how long could they be kept as two separate kingdoms under two separate dynasties? Are they doomed...

One of the key turning points in English history for myself was the death of Henry Stuart in 1612. Strong, virile, and everything the heir to a throne should be, few suspected that in 1612, Henry Stuart would die of typhoid fever at the young age of 18 years old. It makes you wonder what would...

Chapter 1: Stubbornness “Nope, not happening in a million years and that's final!” That’s was all what George Graham, Secretary of the SFA, would say to anyone when questioned if Scotland were going to play in the World Cup in Brazil later that year. He then says other various excuses why they...

Early in the Hundred years war, England was pretty much dominating the French forces. Especially leading up to the battle of Poiters. On the 19th of September 1356, King John II was captured along with several important nobles following the defeat of the French army. His son, a young Charles the...

Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about French North America, other than that they caused a great a deal of distress for the Thirteen Colonies in the 18th century. Is there a time before 1700 when England could have colonized the St. Lawrence, or could have taken it from the French early on...

I started watching Le Rois Maudits last night, and listening to the dialogue between Mahaut/Mathilde, Css of Artois and her nephew, Robert, sieur de Conches got me thinking. Two of Mahaut's daughters were married to successive kings of France, and Robert was involved in unsuccessful lawsuits...

The United Empire As dom pedro i of brazil could have unified portugal and brazil in a unified empire with the capital being rio de janeiro as his country made with the united kingdom of portugal and brazil so that this time would be the '' United Empire of Brazil and Portugal

With a POD of let’s say 1066 have Engliah use the Cyrillic alphabet. It must also be influenced mostly the same way as it is OTL. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in_English This alternate English must be recognizable with the only major thing changing being the...

I know that from biologicall POV this scenario is borderline ASB, but still barely on non-ASB territory. Say that on 12 October 1537 Queen Jane Seymour gave birth to twins: son named Edward (more or less OTL Eddie VI) and daughter, (named Jane, after mother?) , then dies like IOTL. We are...

We are aware that after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, the native landlord population to a large extent was pushed beyond the Shannon River into Connacht, and much of the population caught up in the wars were exported as slaves to the West Indies or killed. However, much of the poorer...

I recently read Alison Weirs biography of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, and it got me thinking. Throughout Mary I’s reign, she was pretty determined to see her cousin and closest friend, Margaret Douglas, and then her son, Lord Darnley, become her heirs. However, Parliament was very...

Something that has got me thinking while doing my ATL football topic is of a different kind of Euro '92. As we all know, Sweden '92 would be the last tournament that would have 8 teams before it would be expanded to 16 teams for England '96, but what if it was to happen four years earlier for...

So I was saw Something Rotten today. I think anyone familiar with the show knows where this is going now. If you aren't familiar with it, it is, keeping spoilers to the minimum, the story of how a down-on-his luck poet creates a musical to combat Shakespeare's fame and fortune and maybe secure...

On the topic of HYW battles going the wrong way for the English (i have made previous threads on Crécy and Agincourt)... Suppose that John II of France and his army manages to defeat and rout the English at the Battle of Poitiers, in 1356 AD. Either that, or the battle is avoided through...

One of the major battles of British history in the period after Edington (878) is Brunanburh, pitched in a now generally undefined location. The battle was fought by the Anglo-Saxons, led by Athelstan I, on one side, and a coalition between the states of Strathclyde, Alba (Scotland), and Norse...

So, assume that king Edward VI of England, legitimate male child of Henry VIII by Jane Seymour, recovers from his illness in 1553 and goes on to reign for, say, around 40 more years. What are the effects on... -Religion in Great Britain? Had Mary never ascended to the throne, could Protestantism...

I saw Philippa Gregory's book, The Last Tudor about the great-nieces of Henry VIII, the Grey sisters, today in a bookshop, which got me to thinking. Much has been made of Jane being successful in holding the throne, but what would her and her sisters' fates be if they had simply kept their heads...

So, suppose that the French navy is successful in defeating the English at Sandwich in 1217 AD, and then manages to support a landing force in England to supply (future king) Louis VIII's forces. What happens next? Will Henry III continue his rebellion? If he does but is still defeated, where...