wales

Could a Roman civilization survive in Southern Wales? Like if the Roman Penydarren fort is still manned by Romans until one issue led to them being the military force the local Briton tribes asking for protection or forced as vassals or tributaries. If they could, can the Romans take advantage...

Some time ago I posted a thread about the Tripartite Indenture, and asked what would have happened to the constituent parts (Wales, "Northumbria", and southern England) in the event that Henry IV had been defeated and killed by the allied factions of the Glyndwr Rising. The most reasoned...

Though Wales has since qualified for the 2022 World Cup, their first since 1958, they have had a few close calls before hand with teams that should've played at a World Cup with the Welsh team of the 1980's being perhaps the team the most unlucky not to qualify for a major tournament and they...

Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown: A Timeline of the Owain Glyndwr Uprising and its Consequences "Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king...

According to The First of the Tudors Henry VII during his youth while still in England, was extremely taken with his native roots in Wales, could speak rudimentary welsh and throughout his entire life, he was extremely pro-welsh. Indeed, Wales as a whole developed on a whole different level...

Following the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons several Cymry petty kingdoms would endure on the periphery of the British isles. With pockets of Welsh resistance gradually being absorbed by the Angles and Saxons, as well as the Picts and later Scots. Eventually England came to dominate the remaining...

But providence doth often so dispose. - Oliver Cromwell July 2nd, 1644. Richard reckoned it had been about an hour since the battle started when the Bradford company were called to reinforce the left. The men had almost immediately begun to speculate on what that might mean for the course of...

What is this? Oh you know.......another Timeline? Don't you have like 2 ongoing timelines and multiple others? ......yes? *Sigh* what is it about? Basically a different history of Britain after the Crimean War to make a 'better' Britain. Better does not mean bigger though. The only land Britain...

The english naturally have a pretty nasty reputation, and of course it all started in Ireland and Scotland (and wales but i think they got to them a bit later). Despite this they historically would often try to say Britain is a nation of equals. Your goal is to make this true- at least in the...

Chapter 1: The Scottish King of England From The Union of Crowns by Robert William Johnson “It was in January of 1603 when Queen Elizabeth, first of her name, had first developed a bad cold and had been advised by her physicians and her chief astrologer, Dr. Dee to move from Whitehall to...

Not long ago I made this ALT Wiki box regarding the Home Championship had it not ended in 1984 and carried on into the present day. For those who don't know about this, between 1884 and 1984, the United Kingdom's four Home Nations football team would play for six matches in the attempt of...

Written by QTXAdsy The Beginning: Early History and the 1950 World Cup Qualification Situated across a set of islands north of the European continent there lie a race of different nationalities known as either English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish though if you check their passports, most...

So as the title says. With a POD no earlier than 1400, make there be a Tudor Wales, and a Plantagenet England. Bonus points if you can figure out how to make it happen during the Wars of the Roses.

What if Welsh got Latinized when the Latin refugees arrived, how would a Romance Wales work out?

After the union of crowns in 1603, James I pursued the Scottish and English parliaments to create a political entity that would be an imperial government consisting of both the Scottish and English crowns. This would create a British 'Empire'. Famously James I agreed to keep the English law and...

In 1969, members of Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru attempted to plant bombs to explode on the railway line used by the royal train. However, the bomb exploded as the bombers were taking it to the railway line in Abergele, Conwy, killing two of the conspirators. What if this plan hadn't failed instead...

I found this map of British counties and was wondering what POD will take to have these borders.

Your challenge is to keep historical boundaries of counties outside of Greater London. Like this: I have a thread like this but it's asking if it's possible, this is a contest.

What if instead of being conquered and annexed by Edward Longshanks Wales remained a vassal state of England and at least nominally independent for a few more centuries? What would be its effects on Welsh-English relations and Welsh culture?

We had some cases of forced population transfers in the 1920s, like the turks with the greeks and the armenians after the greco-turkish war or the poles and germans in silesia. Assuming the british sees this as a definitive solution to prevent dissent like the troubles, and negociated for...