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  1. WI Cockcroft's follies were not built?

    Inspired by this article on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-29803990 Cockcroft's Follies were filters that were added at the last minute to chimneys at the Windscale nuclear plant as it was being built. At the time they were considered to be unnecessary, expensive...

  2. Good Bye Lenin

    Last night I stayed up and watched Good Bye Lenin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Bye_Lenin! It got me thinking, in effect what the son set up for his mother was an alternate history in that as far as she was aware, up until the end of the film was that it was in fact NATO which lost the Cold...

  3. Tactics, Strategy and Logistics

    There's an old saying: Amateurs talk of tactics, dilettantes of strategy and professionals of logistics This got me thinking. Rommel is often thought of as a brilliant General, a true professional but he often ignored logistics and left them to others - he didn't appear to consider ensuring...

  4. Naming/Numbering of English/British Monarchs

    Pre 1066 it was the usual practice in England to distinguish between different monarchs with the same name by means of a nickname relating to their rule instead of a number eg: Edward the Martyr and Edward the Confessor. After 1066 England slowly took up the continental practice of numbering...

  5. effects of failed sealion

    Now, it's fairly obvious in hindsight that sealion was doomed to failure with any reasonable post 1936 or so POD But what if Hitler with his famed 'insight' had ordered the operation to go ahead after the Luftwaffe had managed to force Fighter Command to withdraw north. The short term...

  6. Cuban misile crisis again

    So, inspired by a comment on the other cuban missile crisis thread WI at the beginning of the crisis the US had reliable information regarding the size and capabilities of the USSR's nuclear capabilities. Would they have invaded Cuba and dared the USSR to do something about it? If they were...

  7. Challenge: everybody looses

    Using a POD no earlier than 1914 come up with a scenario where WW1 ends with no real winners, but in the collapse of all major european powers (including the ottoman empire and russia) into smaller warring states. the various colonies can either gain independence, collapse into civil war or be...

  8. Longbows in the Penisular campaign

    During the Napoleonic Wars, the Duke of Wellington asked for a Corps of Longbows to provide rapid fire support for his Army. He was informed that no such body of men existed anymore But WI they did? What would the effect be on the Napoleonic Wars if the British were able to field troops who...

  9. The First Commandment

    The first commandment, in full: "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth...

  10. Charles Edward does not go to germany

    In 1900 Charles Edward Saxe Coburg Gotha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward,_Duke_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha) was forced to take the ducal crown of Coburg by his grandmother (a certain long reigning british queen) after his cousin who had a better claim to it but also didn't want it...

  11. William Aethling

    William Aethling was the son of Henry I. His name's interesting as it's a combination of a Norman and Saxon name. In OTL he died whilst traveling back from Normandy to England. WI he'd lived? In OTL, with William's death, Henry proclaimed his daughter Mathilda as his heir and made the Barons...

  12. British Nations

    WI British nations within the British Isles (ie not Brittany) other than Wales and to an extent Cornwall survived the Anglo-Saxon invasions? For instance Dumnonia or Strathclyde Would they survive to the present day? What would be the effect on history if they did? England and Scotland...

  13. Homo floresiensis

    Typical, connection breaks as I try to post for the 1st time :( Ok, a few years back fossils and tools were found on the island of Flores that suggest that a non-sapiens species of human was extant until approximately 12000BC. If local legends are accurate, they could have been extant until as...
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