======= Points of Divergence : Britain ======= Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of the United Kingdom. See the [[scotland|Scottish]], [[wales|Welsh]] and [[northern ireland|Northern Irish]] subpages for PODs more specific to those constituent countries of the UK. ==== Prehistory ==== Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Antiquity ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=261712|WI: No British Isles]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=26454|WI: Mycenean Colonies in Britain]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=284806|Challenge: Slavic Jutland or Britain]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=301223|Challenge: Baltic Britain]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=255491|Challenge: Make wolves and bears survive as domestic wild species on the British Isles]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=208148|WI the Ingvaeones already inhabited the British Isles before 55 BC ?]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=92794|Discussions on Britain staying Roman after the Germanic invasions]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=15818|Question: Roman Legion stays in Britain]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256541|Challenge: Romans defeated by the local tribes at Anglesey]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265474|Challenge: Make York the English Capital City]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/what-if-the-romano-british-version-of-vulgar-latin-survived-different-ango-saxon-invasions.404263/|WI the Romano-British version of Vulgar Latin survived ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=263980|Challenge: Make Cornish the world's lingua franca by 2000]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== The Middle Ages ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=255491|Challenge: Make wolves and bears survive as domestic wild species on the British Isles]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=295417|WI: No Saxons in Britain]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=281992|WI: Germanic tribes in Britain never unite ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=346360|WI: More Saxon Migration to the British Isles in the 6th Century]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=297014|Plausibility check: A Saxon England known as Saxland/Sexland ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=348431|England known as Englerik]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=27454|WI St. Edwin was not killed at the battle of Hatfield Chase, but instead was victorious ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=222997|Urien of Rheged not assassinated]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=14612|WI the battle of Catterick in 598 AD had an opposite outcome ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=342055|WI: England united under the Mercians in the 9th Century]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=136786|Challenge: Mass emigration from Britain to Scandinavia (with a post-Alfred the Great POD)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=264148|Challenge: Orthodox Britain with a POD after 1066]]** * **[[pods:1066|1066 Points of Divergence]]** - Set during the time of the Norman invasion and the Battle of Hastings. * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=346970|Edgar as King of the English 1066-1126 ?]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/winchester-remains-englands-capital.50485/|WI: Winchester remains the capital of England (1)]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/english-capital-stays-in-winchester.62079/|WI: Winchester remains the capital of England (2)]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-winchester-still-capital.128409/|WI: Winchester remains the capital of England (3)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=345047|Plausibility check: England keeps most of its French possessions]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=262879|Plausibility check: No women allowed on the English throne]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=193351|Challenge: Richard the Lionhearted leaves England better off at the end of his reign, is considered a Great King]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=192232|WI: Richard the Lionheart popularizes bullfights in England]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=26735|Plausibility check: Dynastical union between England and Castille]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-edward-ii-marries-isabella-of-castilla.366064/|WI: Edward II marries Isabella of Castilla]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=268051|WI: The Jews not expelled by Edward I ?]]** * **[[The Hundred Years War|Hundred Years War PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=380196|WI Richard II married Yolande of Aragon ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=247400|Challenge: Latest POD for a surviving Richard II]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=356850|WI Edward Black Prince and his son Edward survive ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=310711|Challenge: London occupied by Habsburg Troops (with a post-1400 POD)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=266873|WI Henry V lives longer]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=337040|Henry V, King of England and France]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=269465|PODs about Henry V and Henry VI of England]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=283239|Challenge: Keep England's continental possessions (with a POD no later than 1453]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=183697|WI: Henry VI of House Lancaster not insane]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=365334|War of the Roses plausibility check]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=127915|Longest continued use of the longbow possible ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Early Modern history ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=255491|Challenge: Make wolves and bears survive as domestic wild species on the British Isles]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=268169|WI: African settlement in England in early modern era ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=310711|Challenge: London occupied by Habsburg troops (with a post-1400 POD)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-longer-tudor-dynasty.391215/|A Longer Tudor Dynasty]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=158018|WI Catherine of Aragon is pregnant by Arthur]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=243049|Catherine of Aragon dies in 1502]]** * **[[pods:Henry VIII|Henry VIII PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=284743|Lady Jane Grey is born male]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=267311|Piracy as a British stereotype]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=272855|WI Queen Elizabeth I married King Philip II of Spain and had issue ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=303549|WI Elizabeth I keeps England Catholic ?]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/queen-elizabeth-i-feminist.383933/|Plausibility check: Queen Elizabeth I a feminist]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=296928|Reconcliation between Rome and England in the early 17th century]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/succession-if-elizabeth-i-dies-in-1570.411056/|Succession, if Elizabeth I dies in 1570 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=263633|Challenge: Give the UK a capital other than London, starting in 1603]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=266398|Challenge: The Roanoke colony survives and succeeds]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256807|Challenge: An earlier British America]]** * **[[english civil war|English Civil War PODs]]** * **[[Oliver Cromwell|Oliver Cromwell PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=252794|Religious implications of a surviving Commonwealth]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=367429|WI James II dies of smallpox in 1660 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256945|Was Britain's rise as a superpower inevitable ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=261027|WI: No English Restoration ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=286722|Challenge: A foreign "Gibraltar" on English soil (with a POD after 1500 AD)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=127915|Longest continued use of the longbow possible ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=295113|The world without the British Empire]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=243587|Anglo-Dutch Union PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=354508|WI Anne Sophia of Oldenburg survived childhood]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 18th century ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260126|WI: No Acts of Union and Scotland staying independent]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=267502|No Acts of Union in 1707]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=55694|Challenge: With a POD after 1707, turn the United Kingdom into a dual monarchy analogous to OTL Austria-Hungary]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=85249|What if the British teamed up with the Poles against the 18th century alliance of Prussia, Austria and Russia ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=334826|Adeste Fideles becomes the unofficial British Anthem]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=13504|Alternate wife for George IV.]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=261850|WI: Admiral Vernon heads to Havana in 1740-41 ?]]** * **[[seven years war|Seven Years War PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=160650|British Tierra del Fuego]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=68523|Plausibility check: British Penal colonies on American mainland (outside Canada) after 1783]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=291325|George the III dies before the American Revolution]]** * **[[american revolution|American Revolution PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=286722|Challenge: A foreign "Gibraltar" on English soil (with a POD after 1500 AD)]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 19th century ==== * **[[Napoleonic Wars|Napoleonic Wars PODs]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6524353|Challenge: Napoleonic-British alliance]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=119028|The evolution of a Napoleonic Britain]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-royal-navy-disaster-at-copenhagen.389454/|WI: British Royal Navy disaster at Copenhagen]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257811|WI: Sir Arthur Wellesley dies in India in 1803 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=206157|British Rio de la Plata ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=290439|Plausibility check: 1807 British Rio de la Plata campaign succesful ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=109136|Plausibility check: British Argentina and Uruguay after the Rio de la Plata conquest ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257490|A reactionary Britain in the 19th century ?]]** * **[[pods:war of 1812|War of 1812 PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=263253|Smallest possible British Empire by 1900 (with a POD in 1815)]]** * **[[queen victoria|Queen Victoria PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=176567|Victorian devolution in the UK (after 1830)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=250836|WI the New Territories (Hong Kong, etc.) in China were ceded permanently to Britain ?]]** * **[[pods:Crimean War|Crimean War PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=299126|Challenge: The UK or Canada buys Greenland (with a post-1860 POD)]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=266540|WI: Prince-Consort Albert lives past 1861]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=261109|WI: Prince Albert Victor married Princesse Hélène d'Orleans]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=238037|What could bring 19th century Germany closer to the UK ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=247649|1890 Great Tower of London that Never Was]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=293141|Challenge: The UK on the side of the Central Powers, with a POD no earlier than 1890]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=144330|Minorca staying in British hands]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256945|Was Britain's rise as a superpower inevitable ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=282028|Challenge: Cecil Rhodes' will gets (realistically) fulfilled)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=238106|Challenge: Cape to Cairo Railway]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=137789|A slower expanding and weaker British Empire]]** * **[[boer wars and anglo-zulu wars|Boer Wars and Anglo-Zulu Wars PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=22822|WI a different George V. ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Early 20th century and World War I ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=325360|WI: Queen Victoria had lived to be 100 years old]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=247776|Challenge: Highly Anglican Commonwealth and British Empire]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259179|Anglo-French War in the early 20th century]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=211911|Challenge: Earliest possible rise of Nationalist Parties in the UK]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=289497|DBWI: Dogger Bank Incident is ignored ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=246821|WI prime minister Asquith is succesfully assassinated in 1909 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=263682|Challenge/Plausibility check: Britain becoming an analogue of Imperial Japan in the 20th century]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=270188|Challenge: Scott beats Amundsen]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265494|Historical ramifications if the RMS Titanic hadn't sunk ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=241458|Keeping Britain out of WWI]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=324681|No Britain in WWI: Consequence on India]]** * **[[WWI|World War I PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=264497|WI: British Expeditionary Force draws up at Amiens ?]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-supermac-killed-at-the-somme.379869/|WI: Harold MacMillan killed at the Somme ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=192191|King George V. killed in an air raid in June 1917]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=169722|Churchill's Dream : The Baltic Project]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=185468|British Baltic Incursion in 1917]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=235071|Tsarist Russia survives, but its relationship with Britain becomes a cold war in the 20th century]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Interwar period ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=37821|WI Britain doesn't return to the Gold Standard in the 1920s]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=181759|Challenge: Keep Britain as a lasting global super power]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=235619|Britain still a world power ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=325891|Alternatives to Heathrow Airport]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=340764|The British develop the Intermodel Container between the world wars]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=162786|Challenge: The Big Dominions]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=157936|WI: British Commonwealth Navy]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=319930|Alternative Royal Navy for the 1930s]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=123692|Alternative British fighter development in the 1930s]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=192414|A better Fleet Air Arm ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=162786|WI "Big Dominions"-style British Commonwealth instead of the OTL one ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=50769|WI Britain had the same gun laws as the US ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257918|Challenge: Taking the Royal Navy out of commission by 1941]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=251095|WI: UK and France intervene in Spanish Civil War]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=134477|If Oswald Mosley and the BUF came to power, would they ally themselves with the Nazis (and/or Axis nations) ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== World War II ==== * **[[WWII|World War II PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=342177|WI: British and French Troops in Poland]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259966|WI: George VI./Queen Mother killed in air raid on the 13th September 1940]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265618|Effect on the LW if the RAF does better in the Battle of Britain]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=194089|King George VI. is killed during a German Air Raid in 1940-1941]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=268559|WI the Italians enter the Battle of Britain ealier ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=246106|London Firestorm]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=88673|Churchill dies during the first half of WWII and is succeeded by Jan Smuts]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=231627|WI: The British defend the Channel Islands]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=246793|What would make Britain negotiate in 1940-1941 ?]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=287027|Plausibility check: UK sues for Peace in WWII]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=169753|A failed radar experiment at Daventry]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256825|Would Churchill be removed from cabinet due to the Royal Navy's failure in Norway ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257935|Churchill dead in October 1940]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=142287|Challenge: British defeat in WWII]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=77579|Challenge: A British WWII assault rifle]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-best-possible-dieppe-raid.233513/|Challenge: Best possible Dieppe Raid]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=180008|Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs in use in 1943]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=179116|WI the Malta class aircraft carrier had been built and how ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=154770|Plausibility check: Could the United States and Britain win WWII alone ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=156028|British Politics in a Nazi Victory TL]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=210212|Effects of a failed Operation Sealion on British popular culture ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=315551|No Rolls Royce Nene engines sent accidentally to the USSR during WWII ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== After WWII ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=56507|Alternate ends of the British Empire]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=250711|Challenge: Britain retains a non-settler colony that isn't an island]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=294989|Challenge: A British Vietnam-esque quagmire during the Cold War]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=249146|Challenge: Most dystopian and most utopian Northern Ireland possible]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=344345|Competent post-war Air Ministry]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=118772|WI: Britain signs the Treaty of Paris in 1951]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=220681|Britain's technological lead in the 1950s]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=372256|Alternate British Military Nuclear Program (Cold War)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=343704|Large Commonwealth Civilian Nuclear Program]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259441|WI: The British win at Suez]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=135558|The British adopt the EM-2 assault rifle]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=140389|WI the British were the world's best project managers ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=3049|Plausibility check: More British involvement in spaceflight]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=253141|A Commonweath Space Programme]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265177|WI: Blue Streak not cancelled ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=263428|WI the MGA Twin Cam engine was successful ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=146093|UK doesn't join EEC in 1973]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=220558|Margaret Thatcher dies early]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258666|The INLA assasinates Margaret Thatcher in 1979]]** * **[[the falklands|The Falklands War PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265940|WI: Labour never splits, Thatcher defeated in the '83 elections]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=30416|Plausibility check: Teaching of Classics (history, languages, geography, social sciences) marginalized or cancelled ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=73269|Plausibility check: A modern day British jet fighter (in the 1980s)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=255170|WI Maggie Thatcher fights the 1992 election]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=292286|WI Thatcher survives the 1990 crisis, but loses the 1992 elections]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=2964|Tony Blair joins the Conservatives/Tories instead of Labour]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=314414|Seat of a devolved English assembly]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265391|Could the MGB sports car have been kept in production until the introduction of the MG RV8 in the early 1990s ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257899|WI: Queen Elizabeth II dies in February 1993]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=139817|Old and New Labour split with a 1993 POD]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=294041|Plausibility check: Best case scenario for UK voting reform ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/britain-in-the-euro.242893/|Britain in the Euro]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=263481|Ramifications of prince William or prince Harry marrying a black girl ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=131610|Michael Howard and the Tories do slightly better in the 2005 General Election]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-7-7-before-2005-election.377891/|WI: 7/7 attacks before 2005 election]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Miscellaneous ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=139067|Challenge : The British Isles becoming home to more than just 2 independent countries with a pre-1900 POD]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258296|Challenge : An overall far more nationalistic Britain]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=19772|Alternate British monarchies]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=228754|Challenge: Create a British Republic (with a POD before 1900 AD)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=146914|The flag of a British Republic ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=301693|Plausibility check: Why can't England be invaded ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=241378|Challenge: American-annected Britain (with a POD anytime after 1776)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=270827|Culture of a French-occupied England ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=270263|Challenge: A completely alien "English" language]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=215320|Plausibility check: Manchester as the capital of England/Britain]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=82202|Challenge: Create a British superpower with a POD after 1914 and after 2007]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=103262|Challenge: Make the Royal Navy globally predominant in the 20th century, until at least the Cold War era]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=312974|Worst possible Britain (with a 20th century POD)]]** * **[[pods:Sports|Sports PODs]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== ASB / ISOT / Geological ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=133421|Avalonia Alone]]** - This one concerns how civilisation would have developed if Avalonia did not break up and remained a separate island in the middle of the Atlantic. * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=238764|If the island of Britain never came into existence due to ASB intervention, what would the possible consequences be ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=284986|ASBs give the English army 500 Mongol bows at the Battle of Saint-Pol-de-Léon]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=150621|Landlocked Nations, Navies, and Islands ISOT to Waterworld]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=351876|Cornwall ISOTed to 1065 AD]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== See Also ==== **[[offtopic:Britain]]** / **[[offtopic:The United Kingdom]]** **The [[alternate history:British Empire]]** **[[timelines:Britain|British Timelines and Scenarios]]** **[[resources:The UK|Useful Resources about The United Kingdom]]** ---- ==== Navigation ==== **[[Specific Countries|List of Countries by POD]]** **[[pods:pods|Points of Divergence Main Directory]]**