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  1. Fate of Protestantism in a world where England remains Catholic?

    IOTL, the global spread of Protestantism is largely due to the British Empire, either directly or indirectly through the United States. Although other Protestant countries did create overseas colonies (most notably the Dutch), their empires didn't generally involve as much settlement or...

  2. English Reformation with a more decentralised England

    Let's say the POD is that the Wars of the Roses are even more messy than IOTL, causing a great loss of royal power and authority. Henry VII is able to stabilise the situation, but nevertheless the king only really directly controls the southern and central parts of the country, with the north...

  3. AHC: Alternative location(s) for the global film industry

    IOTL lots of countries have their own film industry, but the American is unquestionably the most influential. American films get a wider audience, are translated into more languages, and wield more cultural influence, than any other. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make...

  4. WI: Country without elections for government posts, but referenda needed to pass laws

    This idea came to me while I was thinking of alternative ways that politics and constitutions could evolve. Basically, the executive would be chosen by non-democratic means -- a hereditary monarchy, or an elective (by a subset of the population, a la Venice or Poland) monarchy, or something...

  5. WI: Henry VIII, instead of breaking with Rome, has Catherine of Aragon executed

    Henry's already notorious for executing two out of his six wives (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard). Let's say he also decides to execute Catherine of Aragon when she refuses to go along with his anullment. Maybe Catherine expresses her frustrations with the whole anullment idea to Eustace...

  6. If the Thirteen Colonies remain part of the British Empire, would the capital...

    As it says on the tin. Let's say that the Colonies are given some form of representation in the British Parliament, thus averting the creation of the USA and keeping the colonies within the British Empire. By 2023, would the capital of the Empire still be in London, or would it have moved to...

  7. PC: Use of personal gun shields in combat

    For reference, I'm mostly thinking of the late 19th/early 20th century, from about 1880 onwards, although possibly continuing up to the present day. A gun shield is a plate of metal attached to a machine gun, artillery piece, or similar weapon to defend the crew from small-arms fire. I was...

  8. England stays Catholic, but France turns Protestant

    As it says in the title. For England, either Catherine gives Henry a son, or she dies before Henry breaks with Rome, or Henry just decides that Mary is an acceptable heir after all. Either way, England remains in the Catholic fold. For France, I don't know enough about French history to say what...

  9. Henry VIII's reign without the Break with Rome

    There have been a lot of threads about the long-term effects of England remaining Catholic, but I thought it would be interesting to focus on Henry's reign specifically. IOTL, of course, the Break with Rome and its ramifications dominated the second half of Henry's reign, so how would things go...

  10. How would a torpedo-reliant navy perform?

    IOTL, the invention of the torpedo led to the development of new kinds of combat vessels -- the torpedo boat, a small, fast, lightly-armoured craft specialising in launching torpedoes, and the destroyer, a bigger boat with quick-firing guns designed to keep torpedo boats away from the navy's...

  11. WI: Earlier US entry into WW1

    There's been lots of speculation about what would happen if the US never got involved in WW1, but much less about the oppose scenario, i.e., the US getting involved much earlier in the conflict. So let's say that the US isn't as isolationist in the early 20th century, is more eager to expand its...

  12. Could Charles V's empire have lasted for any length of time?

    IOTL, Charles V abdicated in 1556 due to old age, dividing his realms between his sons Philip and Ferdinand. ITTL, let's say he leaves everything to his eldest son, Philip. Could Philip (and his successors) have kept the empire together for a reasonable amount of time -- say, a hundred years or...

  13. Why weren't industrial production methods more widely/quickly copied outside Europe?

    This is something I've been wondering about. Even if places like the Middle or Far East didn't have the scientific/social/whatever conditions to industrialise on their own, they should still have been able to at least copy industrial production methods once these had been invented. So why didn't...

  14. Political ideologies in a world without any Reformation

    According to the normal account, the Reformation --> various wars of religion --> liberalism developed to stop people killing each other; and pretty much every ideology since the 1700s has been prompted by liberalism, either as a development of it or as a reaction against it. Now, personally I...

  15. If Scotland remained Catholic, could James VI still become King of England?

    Let the PoD be that Elizabeth doesn't send troops north of the border to help the Protestants in 1560, and without her aid, the Protestants are defeated and Scotland remains Catholic. James VI is born six years later as per OTL, but ITTL he's naturally raised Catholic rather than Protestant...

  16. WI: A more High-Church Church of England?

    In Anglicanism, the High Church movement is the wing of the Church that emphasises more "Catholic" elements of belief and religious worship, like the importance of the sacraments, priestly authority, and the use of traditional liturgical elements such as incense, Catholic-style vestments...

  17. WI: US takes Canada, but doesn't take land from Mexico

    Say that the Revolutionary War goes better for the Americans and they manage to get Canada at the peace treaty. However, for whatever butterfly-related reason (maybe Mexico is stronger and more stable for some reason), the Mexican-American War never happens, meaning that the US doesn't take...

  18. WI: Protestantism remains a largely German phenomenon

    Let's say that England remains Catholic, with one of the usual PODs (Henry and Catherine having a son, Queen Mary having a child, etc.). Without the English government supporting the Protestant cause north of the border, Scotland remains Catholic too. Let's say that the Scandinavian countries...

  19. WI: English Parliament refuses to pass Henry VIII's religious reforms?

    One of the problems facing the Huguenot faction in the French Wars of Religion was that the Parliament of Paris was adamantly opposed to the idea of having a Protestant on the throne, meaning that, whilst he might win various victories, Henry IV wasn't able to gain control of the kingdom as a...

  20. Why do we say England and not Saxony?

    The Germanic people who invaded the British Isles during the 5th century are normally referred to as the Anglo-Saxons, or just the Saxons for short. The term "Saxons" seems to have been used by most of their contemporaries (hence Welsh Seison, Scottish Gaelic Sassenach), and the country ended up...
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