Common and Overdone before 1900 What Ifs?

Wait! There are sources of information other than things put onto a Wikipedia page? Next you'll tell me they're still printing books somewhere.

Oh they still do. You can even find these books in the fabled halls of Barnes and Noble :eek:

Next thing you'll tell me that reading wikipedia is not enough to qualify someone to argue in a chat forum with a person who's got actual knowledge of a subject!

Ah degrees and professional training matter not to the fedora mafia.

The serious barriers for me are when all of the meaningful sources are in a language other than English. Being an ignorant anglophone monoglot, that makes it hard to write a timeline set in, say, Tay Son-era Vietnam.

Even though I'm trilingual, and having working knowledge of two other languages, I'm only truly literate in English. So I know your pain.
 
Ameriwanks. Far too many.

In the same vein I may be an Anglophile but the number of threads about a better Commonwealth or Britain's empire getting larger just seem way to happy to avoid the nastiness of imperialism.

Also most TLs just seem to assume the world arcs on a liberal trend once you pass 1900.
 
Ameriwanks. Far too many.

In the same vein I may be an Anglophile but the number of threads about a better Commonwealth or Britain's empire getting larger just seem way to happy to avoid the nastiness of imperialism.

Also most TLs just seem to assume the world arcs on a liberal trend once you pass 1900.

Well, pretty much every 20th Century dystopia TL averts that last trend, and there are quite a few of those.
 

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Banned
making big countries even bigger

A second tendency besides Reversing OTL situations and conditions is to wank them.For example, Russia gets wanked quite freqejtly.
 
Ameriwanks. Far too many.

In the same vein I may be an Anglophile but the number of threads about a better Commonwealth or Britain's empire getting larger just seem way to happy to avoid the nastiness of imperialism.

Also most TLs just seem to assume the world arcs on a liberal trend once you pass 1900.

Sorry but how many of these timelines are there?

If you could list all America wanks and all commonwealth wanks I have doubts your separate lists would even see double digits.
 
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