AHC: Liverpool the capital of Great Britain
- Thread starter Madeleine Birchfield
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Operation Sealion goes ahead and for the first few days Germany runs wild in southern England then they are immediately destroyed by the British Army.
Liverpool is made the temporary British capital for a week.
Liverpool is made the temporary British capital for a week.
Maybe a workers’ revolution in London that somehow doesn’t spread to Liverpool. Or maybe there is a nationwide Revolution and the revolutionaries select Liverpool as the capital instead of old, monarchist and bourgeois London.
After the Second World War, The United Kingdom is split into different occupation zones by the Western Allies, Ireland, Wales, and Western England under American occupation, Scotland under Canadian occupation, Cornwall under Mexican occupation, and Eastern England under European Union of Socialist Republics/UERS (Union européenne des républiques socialistes). With tensions rising between the Capitalist Allies from North America and the Communist giant under the leadership of Jacques Doriot, the former United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was permanently split into the nations of the British Socialist Republic with its capital in London, Scotland with it's capital in Edinburgh, and the Federal Kingdom of Great Britain with its capital in Liverpool, the largest city with the lowest amount of damage.
Sadly, for most of recorded history, Liverpool was but a fishing hamlet up a muddy tidal creek off the Mersey. In fact, it was so insignificant that the Vikings named Litherland and Otterspool to either side, raided Garston, gave Liverpool a miss. Local population centre was 'Walton on the Hill', high on a big sandstone ridge above Liverpool's fishing hamlet. Too far, too steep for Vikings to conveniently raid...
Neolithic people etc seem to have liked their then-wooded ridge, placed some standing stones. Oddly, the Romans don't seem to have bothered with so much as a watch-tower. They certainly preferred Chester, which had a convenient river crossing, convenient river access, was better placed as a road nexus...
Liverpool did later acquire a nice, four-square Medieval castle to control inlet and estuary, but that was 'slighted' during Civil War, subsequently razed...
IIRC, wasn't until the Liverpool creek was enclosed as a dock that business took off. Then, tragically, to eternal shame, Liverpool became one of the 'Triangle Trade' ports, more convenient for sailing ships than working up-Channel to London...
There's more chance of Runcorn / Widnes 'twin towns' going large, as they were better placed for much of history.
IMHO, you need to do something drastic to London, but it would need ASB geology for eg South of England to 'sag' a lot further, a lot sooner after last ice age...than we see
Neolithic people etc seem to have liked their then-wooded ridge, placed some standing stones. Oddly, the Romans don't seem to have bothered with so much as a watch-tower. They certainly preferred Chester, which had a convenient river crossing, convenient river access, was better placed as a road nexus...
Liverpool did later acquire a nice, four-square Medieval castle to control inlet and estuary, but that was 'slighted' during Civil War, subsequently razed...
IIRC, wasn't until the Liverpool creek was enclosed as a dock that business took off. Then, tragically, to eternal shame, Liverpool became one of the 'Triangle Trade' ports, more convenient for sailing ships than working up-Channel to London...
There's more chance of Runcorn / Widnes 'twin towns' going large, as they were better placed for much of history.
IMHO, you need to do something drastic to London, but it would need ASB geology for eg South of England to 'sag' a lot further, a lot sooner after last ice age...than we see