This is more of a question which will hopefully steer my research a bit:
Among the various discussions regarding the longevity and conduct of the colonial administrations within the British Empire, I got to thinking, if the external pressures facing the British Empire could be removed or mitigated, how much longer could it have lasted, and how would it have finally ended?
However, to butterfly or remove those external pressures, I need to know what they were in the main:
So far, the obvious ones: Financial burdens of WW1 left it creaky to say the least, WW2 was realistically the final nail in the coffin.
US post war agenda.
Could even just mitigating these be enough to postpone the inevitable?
Also, does anyone have any recommended reading or choices to avoid?
I want to keep the internal pressures - British and Empire public opinion and independence movements especially.
This will end up really quite dark as I won't be sugar coating the OTL events that remain or the events that take place ITTL either.
I have some rough ideas at the moment for the end state, but want to be sure that the build up is correct.