AHC English speaking minority in continental Europe

Some time in 18 century some more enterpreneurish Polish or Russian magnate brings in a large number of English specializing in let's say textile munufacturing, they are settled in their own town and gain priviledges that would prevent locals from immigrating to their town and joining their business, so the level of integration is limited. Once the industrialization kicks in this country this place proves too remote, it ends marginalized so there is little move in and out
 
Some time in 18 century some more enterpreneurish Polish or Russian magnate brings in a large number of English specializing in let's say textile munufacturing, they are settled in their own town and gain priviledges that would prevent locals from immigrating to their town and joining their business, so the level of integration is limited. Once the industrialization kicks in this country this place proves too remote, it ends marginalized so there is little move in and out
They'll still be vastly outnumbered by Germans and eventually would assimilate either with Germans or with Poles. There were already British immigrants in Russian Poland who came to work in textile industry but they did not survived as distinct group. There were also Anglican missionaries in 19th century Poland but they had little impact on local population (they managed to get some converts, mostly Jews).
 
Talleyrand's partition plan for Belgium gets the go ahead.

An English speaking population emerges in British Antwerp.

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Would be an interesting dynamic where ATL Belgium has Flemish, Walloon, German and British speaking regions.
 
Arguably, Frisians are that, with (West) Frisian being un-Normanized English.

Frisian isn't mutually intelligible with English, even if they share many origins. If we are considering them the same language then there would be a lot fewer languages in Europe (and the world).

Why? English migration to Antwerp, locals studying English, the British making English compulsory in school. Antwerp being integrated with the UK and British Empire economy...it's not difficult.

What is more difficult is maintaining British rule over Antwerp. The Flemish didn't like having a Protestant overlord who spoke their own language (the Netherlands); would they like having a Protestant overlord who was even more foreign?
 
Okay let's me make a attempt.

1: the Polish Deluge turn much worse, with areas large areas in the western part losing up to 70% of their population.
2: Cromwell live 20 years longer
3: A uprising by Catholics in the early 1660 end with the Catholics given the choice between conversion, slavery or exile.

Poland suffering from the losses in the Deluge invite the English Catholics to settle in Poland between 250-500K takes the offer these mostly settle in Royal Prussia, Greater Poland and along the Vistula down to Warsaw. In these depopulated areas the Anglicy was given right to live as free peasants and burghers. The rights of autonomy they received meant that they kept from integrate with their Polish neighbours, and they would establish sattelite settlementsover time all over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
 
How to get English speaking miniorities compared to Eastern European German miniorities with latest possible POD? I think such miniority to survive should be religiously distinct (so no Catholic refugees who could assimilate easily among other Catholics), perhaps some sort of English analogue of Amish/Mennonites. There really were religious exiles from British Isles (some of them settled as far as Poland) but due to tiny numbers they quickly assimilated. IOTL religious dissidents from England could just emigrate to America so they should have this option closed-either England is officially Catholic and bans non-Catholics from settling in colonies, or less tolerant to non-Anglican protestants, or have no settler colonies at all. Other question-where would such miniority settle on European mainland? My bet-Poland or Russia.
How about Bretangne ?
 
Maybe even Balkans

Yeah, Hapsburgs could recruit them as settlers. Considering the ethnic makeup of settlement in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire which has left villages of Croats, Slovaks, Ukrainians, etc. all throughout its former territories to this day, if English were brought in, you could find villages of Englishmen of various Nonconformist creeds to this day.
 
The latest possible POD? Say that the United Kingdom, lagging somewhat behind its continental European neighbours in the early 1970s, never catches up. Could we get Anglophone migrants from the United Kingdom (and Ireland) heading over to mainland Europe to make new lives there?
 
What is more difficult is maintaining British rule over Antwerp. The Flemish didn't like having a Protestant overlord who spoke their own language (the Netherlands); would they like having a Protestant overlord who was even more foreign?

We know very little about what this "Free State of Antwerp" would have been like, but from its title at least it would have been a theoretically independent state. I just don't see Anglicization being possible. Flanders would be Anglicized less successfully than Québec, IMHO.
 
Maybe England avoids Black Death and English colonists are settled in France in large enough numbers to avoid being hmm... Francified? once French eventually conquer that lands back.
 
Could Britain puppetize Portugal to the degree that country is actually run by Englishmen? English quarters in Lisbon and Porto, English officers in Portuguese army and navy, English officials in Portuguese administration? Small but influental minority like Baltic Germans in Russian Empire.
 
Frisian isn't mutually intelligible with English, even if they share many origins. If we are considering them the same language then there would be a lot fewer languages in Europe (and the world).
Well, it's partially intelligible to some Yorkshire dialects.
It'd be more intelligible were it not for the Great Vowel Shift.

What is more difficult is maintaining British rule over Antwerp. The Flemish didn't like having a Protestant overlord who spoke their own language (the Netherlands); would they like having a Protestant overlord who was even more foreign?
Yeah, bilingual status seems more likely.
And political union with the UK seems very unlikely.
 
Donetsk was originally established as a Welsh town after a Welsh industrialist started exploiting the mineral resources there to build factories. They brought over Welsh workers and built local pubs and a chapel of St David and St George. If you prevent the reforms of people like Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, Russia could stay more economically backwards. Then they could have an earlier relationship with Great Britain, and have several English industrial communities established in Russia. You'd then have to avoid a communist revolution too.


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