I'm working my way through the postscript pieces at the moment, and I'd just like to add in my comment- this is an absolutely magnificent timeline, the first I've read from start to end in a long time. Thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it.
This may be covered in a postscript pieces (or possibly...
Noticeable how these threads always seem to go straight to marriage politics as opposed to domestic politics of the reign.
Some brief thoughts from me. From what we know of the teenage Edward, he seems to have been becoming a fairly cold micromanaging individual. If anything, the vibe one gets...
Let's handwave through a scenario to avoid an English break with Rome- for the sake of argument, let's say Katherine of Aragon gives Henry VIII at least two healthy sons, who outlive their father and secure the Tudor succession.
My question is about English Protestantism in this scenario...
This is quite a big issue though- everything Maurice did was on a shoestring, and butterflying away the events of 602 doesn't mean they won't emerge again in 603. Remember there'd already been a significant revolt on the Eastern front in 588.
Anyway, coming back to the main point- it's odd to...
This.
All that said- there's no reason such a state should be any less successful than were say the Sicilian Normans in a (very) approximately similar setting. An Emperor permanently based in the West (I agree Carthage is likely, but Sicily may well be equally so) will be able to dedicate his...
Okay, so answers are seemingly focussed so far on the external perceptions of fascism, which I think I basically agree with. Indeed, I'm of the view that WW2 and the struggle against Naziism is so deeply embedded in the western psyche that our political cultures would be unimaginably different...
A fairly simple question that might be an interesting discussion- imagine for whatever reason Hitler falls down the stairs in 1935 (give or take), and Nazism fades away to be replaced by whatever.
How does this effect, in particular, Italian fascism without having a world war to fight? And how...
I think the posters suggesting that elements of the aristocracy claiming the child is a mark of divine displeasure probably have a point.
But if problems with the kid only really become apparent in the mid 1540s, then I don't think there's much to be done. Henry is likely to be ailing and the...
To be fair, the social and political organisation of the North African peoples developed *significantly* between say 100 and 550, just as the Germani did. Any sort of Roman state under any POD is going to find it more difficult to maintain its borders than the Augustan principate did.
Anyway -...
This was the subject of my very first post on AH.com back in 2008, and I've recently been thinking about it again.
How far was the Suez crisis directly responsible for the rapid decolonisation of Africa in the years that immediately followed it? In a world where Britain and France had achieved...