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  1. Could Bristol have defended their IP more aggressively

    In the 1920s and 1930s it was common to license aero engines rather than export finished engines. One of the most successful engine designers of the interwar period was the British company Bristol. A lot of engine "lines" can trace their development to Bristol engines. Gnome Rhone, Alfa, BMW...

  2. British 19th century migration

    Its interesting to note that despite the industrial revolution and the British standard of living being comparatively high emigration from the UK was massive. Between 1813 and 1913 10 million people left Britain and an additional 8 million people left Ireland between 1801 and 1921. For the...

  3. Fleet Speed (Royal Navy before ww1)

    The idea of a fleet speed is that it is a speed that all the ships in your fleet can travel at. It usually becomes a guiding feature of naval design. In the pre WW1 era when naval technology was rapidly advancing Royal Navy Battleship speeds essentially remained static at 21 knots. The fleet...

  4. Boer war (shorten or cheapen)

    Is there any possibility that the second Boer war could have been won at a much lower cost to the British without butterflying lessons learned in the war. Given the obsession amazing time the time of minimal borrowings the monies saved from paying less interest on debt could have had amazing...

  5. French Navy 1800s

    On a general review of the post Napoleonic 1800s we would note that the French was a big naval spender. It spent most of the century maintaining the second biggest navy in the world. The navy did work expanding the French colonial empire and enforcing French freedom of trade around the world and...

  6. British position in Egypt from occupation to WW2

    I've had a bit of interest in the British status in Egypt recently. Many people consider Egypt as part of the British empire from its occupation till WW2 but Britain's position in Egypt was rather weak and shaky at best. Britain fought a brief war against Egyptian rebels in 1882 to begin their...

  7. Alternate naval building standard (Birtain)

    The naval defence act of 1889 was the act that gave a formal creation to the two power standard. That is the idea that the Royal Navy should have as many battleships as the next two largest navies. At the time that was France and Russia (who were conveniently in an alliance together). The two...

  8. What if Russia held onto its hard line against Bulgaria (1913)

    In the first decade of the 20th century it was a Russian ambition to build a Baltic alliance to assist it in any wars with Austria or the Ottomans. A Balkan league was formed of Greece Serbia Montenegro and Bulgaria. Initially it was successful and the Balkan League fought a war together...

  9. Alternate Queen Victoria marriage

    The marriage between Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert is considered by many a successful one. Victoria had nine children and forty-two grandchildren. She became considered the Grandmother of Europe. It is also considered to be the marriage that spread the hemophilia gene into the...

  10. 10 Year Rule question

    Everyone has always felt that the 10 year rule as a policy that Britain should save money by planning that no war should occur for 10 years and that defence estimates should be prepared on that basis was a little silly. I'm wondering if the defense chiefs could have interpreted it differently...

  11. WW1 Credit shortages

    I was thinking earlier and I got to wondering. How big an impact do people feel that the Entente credit shortage had on the American decision to enter WW1. I got to thinking and I feel that America was fairly pro Entente before it actually entered the war. American loans to the Entente were...

  12. How bad a Pearl Harbour would be considered not a disaster

    Alright. Pearl Harbour was a major sneak attack by Japanese carriers against the American fleet at anchour. At the time it was considered a major disaster. What would have changed if the attack was slightly blunted. Let's say 30 fighters get in the air against the first wave shooting down...

  13. France/Italy sea battle ww2

    Italy joined WW2 a scant two weeks before the surrender of France. The Italian fleet was based at Taranto and didn't really leave it. The French fleet was essentially in 3 parts, in Mers El Kebir, in Toulon and in the Atlantic. Is there any reasonable point of diversence that would see a...

  14. A barely interested belligerent

    I was looking at the American declarations of war for both World wars recently. WW1 Senate 82-8 House 373-50 WW2 Senate 88-0 House 393-0 In entry to both of these wars we see massive majorities and the president directed to employ the full military force. Could we have seen an American...

  15. Royal Navy pre WW1 building programs

    I was thinking about pre WW1 naval building programs of the Royal Navy. Many commentators consider that the major navies were too capital ship heavy. I wonder what would have happened if two less battleships were ordered between 1906 and 1914 and another 10 light cruisers and destroyers were...

  16. Moscow Gold?

    For those who don't know the greatest legitimate Gold heist of the the 20th century was the movement of the majority of the Spanish gold reserves to Moscow during the Spanish Civil War. The minority portion went to France in exchange for foreign currencies which also largely ended up in Moscow...

  17. What difference does a few (3-5) days make (a Fall of France query)

    If there was a boost to French morale during WW2 and the decision to seek terms was delayed by a number of days (let's say 3-5) would there be a major effect on the evolution of WW2 during 1940. Obviously whatever caused a morale boost would have its own butterflies however my curiosity is what...

  18. POD for a deliberate policy to move low value industry to colonies

    Approaching ww1 Britain had lost its position as the primary industrial power in the world. Both Germany and the USA had in many way eclipsed it. Some of the industries Britain did remain dominant in (for example textiles) were low value industries. During ww1 the textile industry almost shut...

  19. Germany doesn't blink (an escalation of the Venuezala Crisis 1902/1903)

    So if there was a German American war in 1902/1903 as an escalation of the Venuezala Crisis how does the war look. The German fleet was superior but I don't feel it could overcome the Atlantic ocean. German planning at the time was somewhat unrealistic and called for sailing towards the...

  20. Abrogating the Treaty of Frankfurt (1871)

    The Treaty of Frankfurt succeeded the treaty of Versailles (1870) and brought an end to the Franco Prussian war of 1870. It had numerous clauses relating to territorial changes and indemnities. The clauses that was still active up until ww1 was one which gave most favoured nations status in...
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