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======= 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]]**
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==== 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]]**
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==== 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]]**
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==== 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]]**

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