Rather Be a Free Citizen
The foe long since in silence slept
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps
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For just a moment, as the first referendum results were trickling in - the world held its breath. This was...
I usually don't have pop culture WI ideas - but the concept of Heath Ledger as Rorschach popped into my head so-
What if Watchmen as a project returns to Warner Bros a few years earlier than OTL and Christopher Nolan picks it up as a project in 2002 instead of Batman Begins? Ideas for casting...
What is this? Oh god I'm the bolded text aren't I?
Yes, yes, nothing but text corresponding to a tired format people follow. You were saying?
What is this TLIAW about exactly? Some sort of horticultural revolution? Baobabs become a domesticated animal?
I can't wrap my mind around how off-base...
After the unexpected death of Prince Charlotte of Wales in childbirth in 1817, the various younger sons of George III scrambled to produce an heir to the throne (William IV, Edward Duke of Kent, and Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge all married because of this, and Edward's daughter of course became...
The Conservatives got a majority in the 1922 general election but PM Bonar Law came rather close to losing his own seat of Glasgow Central, with a massive swing against him (and an ultimate majority of 8%). What if Edward Mitchell does a bit better and the PM narrowly loses his seat? Unlike with...
Apparently IOTL the Maine delegation in the 1860 Republican convention (supported by our good friend James G. Blaine) tried to start a movement to nominate Senator William Pitt Fessenden, a former Whig and prominent anti-slavery Republican in the Senate. It died down when Fessenden explicitly...
The 1860 Republican Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln in OTL was rather chaotic and accordingly has a lot of possibilities for alternate outcomes. IOTL Lincoln was nominated because of his electability but also from a lot of backroom dealing that successfully persuaded Indiana and...
So in 1862 there was a greek referendum for a new king - Prince Alfred of Great Britain got 95% percent of the vote but still wasn't chosen, partly because of the London Conference of 1832 setting a precedent that Great Powers wanted to follow, but also because Queen Victoria was strongly...
This is a continuation type of thread based on all the wonderful monarch family trees people post. The way it works; the first person posts a dynastic POD, then the person responding writes up a family tree and posts their own POD. To start,
WI Catherine of Aragon dies in childbirth in 1518?
I'm on a string of alt-British succession possibilities recently, so here's another one, (that should also change up continental politics).
Charles I Louis of the Palatinate had a rather messed-up personal life; rather prone to bigamy, as a result only 3 of his 18 children were legitimate. His...
Through a series of very bad circumstances (a mix of conversions to Catholicism and cases of infertility), upon the death of Prince William of Gloucester, the distantly related Sophia of Hanover and her descendants were rather surpringly the closest Protestants after Queen Anne in the British...
So as ever I have too many ideas for a timeline and consequently never get work done on any of them. I'd like to get matters off to a more productive start on the new board, so I'm throwing open to democratic appeal the several hopefully original timeline ideas I have, with brief descriptions...
Boxing Day, 1918
Even in his moment of triumph he was annoyed. “Did you hear them chanting outside? ‘We Want Wilson! We Want Wilson!’” the Prime Minister snapped. “You’d think America won this war all by themselves. I just hope Wilson’s not as much of a glory-seeker during the dratted...
I'm just a humble Yank, but thanks to reading a bit many Politbrit vignettes I've been thinking about ideas for different 1950s PMs and wondering how the Conservative dominance of the decade could be changed. For a POD: What happens if the often ill Anthony Eden gets a bad case of the William...
This ACW scenario, for a change, is about the U.S. war effort doing better than in real life, rather than worse. Namely - Let's say that Grant takes more defensive precautions before the battle of Shiloh, rather than being caught completely unprepared by A. S. Johnston. As a result, rather than...
So I'm working on a new tl with a slightly different premise; how much change could adding in a single "Great Man" (or woman) to history make, and not just due to butterflies. My current idea is for a ATL British monarch born in ~1685 who essentially reigns from 1714-1770 let's say. How could...
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a) Pilgrims land near Halifax, starting conflict with the French colonies in the region
b) Pilgrims land on Cape Breton Island, and *Boston is in Louisborg, which like OTL becomes a fortress holdout.
c) Pilgrims go to PEI or NE New Brunswick, and drive a wedge between Quebec and...
So this AHC is especially inspired by recent discussions over the civil war and a surviving Confederacy. The challenge is as follows, with a POD after 1776:
1)Rather than having a "lost cause" mythology(i.e., glorification of the antebellum south) start in the 1870s and last on into the 20th...
So, the 1916 election was famously close; a common scenario has Hughes meeting Hiram Johnson in California to heal up the rift between them. This of course, would switch California and give Hughes a very narrow victory. I think there's another straightforward way to give Hughes, California; in...