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One of the most popular alternative history scenarios is Margaret, Maid of Norway surviving, marrying Edward II, therefore having the union of the crowns occur far, far earlier. This also means, however, that Edward II does not marry Philippa of Hainault, averting the Hundred Years War, and the...

A bit of background to those unfamiliar with the earlier chapters of (properly) Scottish history, before what scholarship calls the Davidian Revolution (a series of institutional reforms propagated by King David I) was something like your prototypical image of a gaelic kingdom, and it could be...

Alphonso, Earl of Chester was the son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile who died at the age of 10, while Margaret, Maid of Norway was the daughter of Eric II of Norway and Margaret, Maid of Scotland who inherited the throne from her grandfather, Alexander III of Scotland in 1286, what would...

So picture this, the man behind the Darien scheme, William Paterson, is a merchant in the Caribbean, around this time he developed his idea for the Darien scheme sometime in the late 70s, I propose to you that in this alternate timeline he gets attacked by pirates and surrenders without a...

In OTL, Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of England was said to have miscarried three times at the very least, and the only surviving legitimate children Charles ever had were with his many mistresses. Thus after his death, Charles's younger brother, James Stuart, Duke of York succeeded him...

In OTL, Mary Stuart was born the daughter of James V of Scotland and Marie d'Guise on the 8th December 1542. She would become Queen Regnant of Scotland at six days old, and would marry four times, though notably to her first husband, Francis II of France, whom was one of the driving factors in...

The most recent idea that entered my head as of late involves keeping Scotland independent from England and making it a decent power in its own right. For this to happen, the accession of James VI (I) to the English throne in 1603 absolutely has to be avoided. Since Elizabeth I would probably...

Some time ago I posted a thread about the Tripartite Indenture, and asked what would have happened to the constituent parts (Wales, "Northumbria", and southern England) in the event that Henry IV had been defeated and killed by the allied factions of the Glyndwr Rising. The most reasoned...

So I like to wonder about what a world with a Plantagenet victory in The 100 years war would be like. Although I believe that England would not have been gallicized outside of London, A Plantagenet state would still have a French upperclass. But when discussing this TL concept, most people focus...

Say by OTL Acts of Union in the early 18th century the Churches of England, Ireland and Scotland become unified. This was a long term goal of the Stuarts which was never fulfilled, unlike the political unification of Scotland and England which did occur. What would this new Church look like...

A timeline of events that show the early Scottish culture did not meld/erode Pictish culture but events could mean the Scottish failed or that the Picts survived and there was a relatively modern Pictish country.

Alternate Issue; Charlotte, b. 1762 Augusta, b. 1763 Sophia, b. 1765 Elizabeth, b. 1766 Mary, b. 1767 Amelia, b. 1768 Octavia, b. 1770 Matilda, b. 1771 Louisa, b. 1773 Henrietta, n. 1774 Magdalena, b. 1776 Anne, b. 1777 Caroline, 1779 Eleanor, 1780 Johanna, 1783 What shenanigans would this...

Assuming that both England and Scotland will stay catholic, and enter XVII century as major catholic powers (I think the best POD is to have Henry XVIII beign succeded by his son by Catherine of Aragon - that should also change James V's fate and), how different the balance of power in Europe...

I was thinking recently, when thinking about the topic of a British revolution of what would be the impacts in Scotland? Let's say that Britain has a communist revolution around 1919. I'm not sure how it could happen but let's just say maybe the Germans win WW1 or something like that. That's not...

Edward, Prince of Wales dies of quartan fever/malaria in October 1541,and King Henry VIII is dead by 1542 along with James V due to shock/grief/infected leg ulcer. Anyway, with no male heirs sired by Henry left, Mary seizes the throne and in 1543, marries Philip, King of Naples and Sicily...

I would like to have opinions on the form that a regency takes on England at the very beginning of the 17th century. Based on a POD where James VI is killed during the Gowrie Conspiracy in August 1600, I imagined a sequence of events that would bring young Henry Stuart to England to flee his...

The adult life of James VI and I was punctuated by plots against his person (assassinations or kidnappings) which all failed, most chronologies take the Gunpowder Plot as POD but none deal with the Gowrie Conspiracy, from the 5 August 1600, last plot against the King of Scotland before his...

WI for whatever reason, the Scottish reformation fails to take hold, and Scotland remains overwhelmingly Catholic. How does this affect relations with England. Is Mary, QoS still deposed in favour of James VI? I assume that James cannot take the English throne in 1603 if he's still Catholic, but...

A Series By Ghazghkull Welcome all to Grasping the Thistle, an independent Scotland-focused series and timeline. This is a series I have been playing about with for a little while now, and I've peppered posts on the forum around this theme from time to time, but now I want to turn it into a...

The Auld Union Timeline of a French-Scottish dual-monarchy On 5 July 1560, Edinburgh signed a peace treaty. This treaty put an end to a civil war between the Catholic and Protestant Scots supported respectively by France and England. More than a civil peace, this agreement puts an end to one...