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  1. Britain gains Louisiana & Florida

    Tricky. If Britain gained it before 1776 then it may well butterflied away one of the main reasons for the ARW i.e. Western Expansion was stopped by the British Government. I guess Britain could have got it at the same time as Canada if that bit of the Severn Year War had been more successful...

  2. Henry VIII dies in 1536

    Assuming that Fitzroy, Mary and Elizabeth are all "illegitimate" then the crown would pass to the eldest daughter of Henry VII, i.e. Margaret Tudor wife of James IV of Scotland or their son James V so creating the Stuart House a generation before it actually came to power.

  3. Top Technology Pre-1900

    I am not so sure. The steam engine was first created in 1st century Egypt / Greece, yet it was not until the 1700's that metallurgy had reached a point where safe mass production made the use of steam a viable solution. It may be the same for electricity. Glass working and metallurgy would need...

  4. AHC: Germany with Austria, without Prussia

    If a stronger Austria looked east towards the Balkans and Constantinople rather than towards Italy and France then I think France would not worry so much. What if we saw the creation of the AHE earlier with Austria pushing the Muslims back out of eastern Europe in a series of battles in the...

  5. AHC European empire

    Napoleon stops at the Russian boarder in 1811 and doesn't invade, however he forces Sweden and Russia to join the anti-British trade blockade. Britain has a reverse or two in Spain and sues for peace.

  6. Guadeloupe not Canada

    I am not sure the French could have refused. Their economy was in tatters and not helped by the British blockade of many of their ports, their army and navy was roundly defeated and their allies were unable to help. That said, what if Bute offered concessions in Europe. I am thinking...

  7. Guadeloupe not Canada

    I am thinking about writing a time line that explores Britain keeping its American territories and the effect that will have on the British Empire if it can call on the resources and markets of the OTL USA as well as the effect that remaining British will have on America. In particular I want to...

  8. No James VI

    Mary's problems started AFTER the birth of her son, i.e. once there was an heir. If she didn't have a child in 1566 then Darnley would not have been killed and everything would have continued until she DID have a child. If she died childless then the crown would probably have passed a...

  9. US victory in war of 1812 american gains

    The British tried and failed at Baltimore, but IF the Americans had more success in Canada then the British could have responded with much greater force. Cochrane's fleet had 19 ships, mainly smaller ships (such as the rocket and mortar ships). At the time Britain had 113 ships of the line...

  10. AHC/PC/WI: Earlier Advances In Science and Technology After 1500

    I have always thought that two things lead to the Industrial Revolution being "born" in Britain rather than elsewhere. These were the Enlightenment and the British Agricultural Revolution (BAR). As it is less complex lets start with the agricultural revolution. Wiki points to the following...

  11. Great Britain conquering Norway.

    I can only envisage something like this happening if England didn't have a Norman king and remained linked somehow to Scandinavia rather than France. I have been trying to think of a reason why England / GB would WANT to invade however and am coming up blank, excepting a for a king who didn't...

  12. Break up France from 1790ish to 1815.

    The best I can come up with is just nibbling round the edges. All the allies had troops in Paris, it may be that something like what happened to Berlin after WWII could (ok streaching here) come about. The only other thing that I could think of are those areas which really suffered under the...

  13. WI Columbus sailed north?

    One of the things that Columbus counted on was the trade winds, these blow from Africa to the America's if you head south, but blow from America to Europe in the north. He would be told this by every French and English sailor he talked to. It is also the middle of the "Little Ice Age" so the...

  14. The Pope stays the Bishop of Rome

    Constantine basically created the Pacacy via various gifts and it grew into temporal power. What would Europe look like if the Pope just stayed as the Bishop of Rome, retaining the spirital power of being the "Prince of Bishops" without the temporal power that being a head of state brought...

  15. The Name of the Roses Before 1900

    Henry VII Richard III :D

  16. AHC: Scotland as Hegemon of Britain

    I think that England has had a "south facing" outlook since William's invasion, befoer that it was far more "east facing". This means that the merchants all set up shop in the South of England, which has very little in the way of resources compaired to the midlands and the north. So have...

  17. AH Cultural Descriptions

    Title of the autobiography of Abraham Lincoln, the looser in the 1860 US Presidential elections. The title comes from the lies spread by his opponent about Lincoln true views on abolition. The Princess of Denmark

  18. American/French Revolutions put off. What is the next conflict in Europe?

    My feeling is that it would be started in America. I presume that the 13 states would be banned from expanding much further Westward by the British Government, but this still leaves the south. You have Spanish Florida and French Louisiana which would be venerable to attack from the...

  19. A young Duke of Clarence succeeds

    Not sure that Victoria would abdicate, particularly given her grandson was only 7 but lets go with it..... Prince Albert would be crowned King Albert I (his grandmother would have insisted and Albert didn't have the issues with his grandfather that his father had). With regards to a...

  20. AHC: No English Civil War

    Oddly enough I have always thought that Charles was overly influenced by his trip to Spain seeking the hand of the Infanta Maria. I think he saw the possibilities of an absolute monarchy in Philip III's court and it gave him ideas about his reign. Had he not gone to Spain he would not...
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