I feel little lets call him Henry lacks the backing to be relvent when Edward dies (if Edward had no legit sons and reigned for years maybe he could do something to set Henry up as heir)
But he gets more relevant as time goes on. Particulary if he stays protestant I suspect he is seriously...
I agree with the general consensus it would make no sense of a mediaeval mindset, to give women votes in the papal election.
However, I think the trick is how to make it so that it makes sense to give specific women votes.
As noted by the OP at this point the vote was very much a...
I agree the UK would not go south unless they absolutely had to but that's the first scenario I suggested the brief border war, if they kept annihilating everything but the republic kept pushing eventually they'd have to go south to make the stupidity stop although do agree with the issues about...
So I'm with the consensus that this is generally an absolute disaster for everyone involved but particularly the Republic of Ireland. Thinking about how it would actually go down/the implications. I think you have roughly 2 scenarios.
A brief border war and an embarrassing climbdown
Republic...
Okay leaving aside was David historical tangent .
If David existed as effectively a warlord king with his powerbase centred around Jerusalem, There are cases in the period of effectively a warlord chaining victories together and sweeping of in a time of crisis taking a more developed...
if (and I accept the many many ifs) Henry pulled this off,one interesting side effect of this is presumably Mary stays legitimate, so even with her mother branded a traitor this interesting question of how Mary's life would evolve as heir butterflies accepting possibly for most of Henry's reign
I feel the answer here is a much more successful militant left, particularly in recruiting soldiers plus no US help,And some incredibly out of character foresight by the Germans and the French
Thinking about what the near end point of this ww1 would look like.
So the US doesn't join the war...
I think this is a solid place to start/agree with a lot of this however a few additional ponderings.
I'm not so sure about 6, given how far back we going, successful conquest in this period (whether we're talking about Turkish kingdoms expanding in Anatolia or the Christian reconquest of...
Weirdly I actually think 1945 is not only the latest you're getting but probably the best bet for an Anglo-French union that lasts until today.
While it's true most of the above examples could unify the English and the French under a single crown the locals have a completely different cultural...
1 I did consider musing about Poland but I thought the post was getting long enough! Overall suspicion it is not terribly important in the grand scheme of things, it's a minor power militarily, and to a degree geopolitically is a border between Germany and the soviets, which if the Soviets and...
So if going back to the Civil War I'd say this is reasonably easy, the US is relatively weak, it's divided, and it's not got that much of a web of alliances
But looking at the OP the absolute latest, with the pod date before 1900, I suspect you could manage a pod of the early 1890s, with an...
I agree with others that a fascist France properly means at least a brief civil war (although in a scenario where a bit like fascism in Germany they'd already made an agreement with the more reactionary and conservative elements so had a decent chunk of support of the military it might be quite...
Hitler seemed pretty obsessed with a Germany that did stretch to the urals, so in the situation where they have a more or less total Nazi win (which I suspect is one where Britain decides the best game is not to play with goes into isolation and the US lacks an unsinkable aircraft carrier to...
I assume the British states would just put a residency requirement on it (e.g must either have been born in the state and under 18, or resident in the state X period of time possibly while also working if not born in the state), while I don't believe this was the case in the 1960s after all by...
The nationalised industries are an interesting one to ponder
While very unusual for the United States don't believe that any rule against it? And the nature of the federal system does mean states can own things fairly clearly
My assumption is as part of the integration process there would be a...