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A TRUE WORLD CUP An Early World Cup Expansion By QTXAdsy Prior to qualification for the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England, FIFA found itself in the middle of a controversy and a headache. In 1964, 31 African nations threatened to boycotted the tournament to protest a 1964 FIFA ruling that required...

In 1283, Edward I conquered Wales, and shortly after send the daughters of it's last 2 independent rulers into confinement for the rest of their lives, most of them had by the last one and 1 had by his brother, Llywelyn, with the daughter of Simon de Montfort, with the girl being only a year...

A History of the Welsh in Alaska: A TLIAW Introduction The Welsh Alaskans have shaped our state's history over the last 150 years. 2018 marks the 150th year since Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones first landed at Porth Madryn, becoming the first Welshmen to set foot in Alaska. Y Wladfa was...

Chapter One: Across the Great Sea Owain ap Gruffydd was arguably the greatest Welsh ruler before Llywelyn Fawr. He ruled the comparatively small Princedom of Gwynedd, but he used it as a power base to wage a decades-long defensive war against the English under Henri II. But it's not him we're...

What if, by some miracle, Harold Godwinson beat both the Vikings and Normans in 1066? Or because both is unlikely, maybe William can't get the pope to legitimize his claim and therefore can't attack without serious trouble from the king of France without the resources of a kingdom to protect...

Hello, all! I have been lurking on this forum for about 5 years now and have never posted anything - until today! I have been working on a timeline for several years now, and I want to turn it into a book, but before I started, I wanted to get some feedback from the most historically...

Prologue: The Life and Times of Owain Glyndŵr: On the 16th September 1400, Owain Glyndŵr was proclaimed Tywysog Cymru[1] by his supporters at Llys Glyndyfrdwy after escaping an ambush by Baron Grey de Ruthyn and raised the Black Lion Rampant standard of Powys in rebellion. Some might say that as...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brunanburh In 937, a coalition of Norse, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish petty kingdoms and chiefdoms invaded England to try to keep Æthelstan from unifying it, but were beaten back at the Battle of Brunanburh. What if they had defeated the Anglo-Saxons...

The premise here is that England and Scotland didn't unify in 1701 with Ireland joining 1801 but that all 3 join together in 1720s-50s. What would be the initial composition of the Commons and Lords? How would this change throughout time? Is something like a semi-federal or internally...

Okay, so I'm working on a RPG setting for a FATE/GURPS/SEWASFR (Something Else With A Similarly Flexible Ruleset) Campaign, and I need to know how to make it realistic enough to be semi-beleiveable. The timeline will have several different PODs from all over the world instead of a single one...

During the time of the Great Heathen Army's invasion of England, a great king named Rhodri was busy uniting Wales. IOTL he was killed in a war with Mercia, and his realm was divided. What would happen if Mercia never interfered, or was crushed when they did? If he united Wales, how might he deal...

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...

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...

Challenge: With a post-800 POD, make Celtic South Britain as powerful and influential as possible.

With the World Cup round the corner and with only England being the British team there, it has made me think what if at least two or all the home nations had been present at either World cup or European championship and were all much stronger to boot with their own respected years of success...

How do you make organizations similar to the IRA form, but ones calling for Scottish and Welsh independence?

A short series of articles inspired by a comment elsewhere - what if nationalists in the UK showed the same tendency for splitting as the left and right do?

All To Play for The Home Nations' Football Adventures Written By QTXAdsy Chapter 1: Fancy Seeing You Here The 26th June 1954, a corridor of two teams line up as the prepare to head out to play a game of Football. One team is dressed with white shirts, navy blue shorts and white socks, the...

This has always been an interesting WI timeline in which we have all of the Home Nations at the 1966 World Cup which I'm surprised hasn't really been looked into that much. The thing is that it isn't far fetched that they might've all qualified as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all came...

It started with a very short scenario that I've originally written almost a year ago, and I'm currently planning to expand it into a vignette (short alternate history scenario). As indicated in the scenario, the PoD was 1968, when the GPO cooperated with both the BBC and ITA (Independent...