AHC: British Revolution

Could Britain have had a revolution similar to that of America or France in the later 1700s early 1800s? How would it likely have unfolded. Would it have been as calm and successful as that of the United States, maybe even following the American Republican system?

Or would it have been a violent bloody terror falling in and out of democracy and dictatorship, with spats of near anarchist chaos as was the case in France?
 

Dorozhand

Banned
The Chartists are a good candidate for a revolutionary movement in Britain.

I've also always been fascinated by the idea of a Digger revolution. Make them more aggressive and Britain could have been the world's first socialist state in 17th century.


"We come in peace," they said, "to dig and sow
We come to work the land in common and to make the waste ground grow
This earth divided we will make whole
So it can be a common treasury for all


The sin of property we do disdain
No man has any right to buy and sell the earth for private gain
By theft and murder they steal the land
Now everywhere the walls rise up at their command
 
Why would they bother? The English beat both the Americans and the French to revolution by about a hundred years.

Because the poor still suffered badly and parliament was hugely corrupt?

Your best shots at revolution are 1795, 1819 and 1832. It's hard to say how it would have unfolded because revolutions are such chaotic and unpredictable things. In 1832, it's quite possible the Commons would have sided with the revolutionaries and it would have kept much of the political architecture intact. A 1795 one, however, would have likely been a mess.
 
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