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But providence doth often so dispose. - Oliver Cromwell July 2nd, 1644. Richard reckoned it had been about an hour since the battle started when the Bradford company were called to reinforce the left. The men had almost immediately begun to speculate on what that might mean for the course of...

I've been thinking, (not very hard), from what I can see, the last straw preventing the 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland was the failure of the Darien colonies and the huge financial losses incurred by that. If King William III/II refuses permission for the Darien Colonies...

Ferguson Makes It Three: A Scottish Football Timeline 2002 World Cup UEFA Qualfiers Group 6 – 24th March 2001 Scotland 3 Belgium 2 Having begun their World Cup qualifying campaign with routine, albeit low scoring, wins over Latvia and San Marino and a 1-all draw with Croatia in Zagreb, Craig...

What is this? Oh you know.......another Timeline? Don't you have like 2 ongoing timelines and multiple others? ......yes? *Sigh* what is it about? Basically a different history of Britain after the Crimean War to make a 'better' Britain. Better does not mean bigger though. The only land Britain...

IOTL all but one children of James IV and Margaret Tudor died as infants, what if they are more lucky, and their firstborn (boy named James, born in 1507) also lives? That means shorter regency, but also different marriage options for him (as I doubt he'd wait for Madeleine of France, who is 14...

In 1528, Margaret of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands suggested that her niece Mary of Austria should wed King James V of Scotland. In OTL Mary declined because she was still in love with her late husband and did not wish to marry again. So let's assume that Mary is a little more accepting...

The death of King James V in 1542 caused another regency and risk of succesion crisis in Scotland. His only surviving child, - daugther Mary - was only six days old. The authority of Scotish crown was once again in ruins, and in comming decades, Scotland had to deal with multiple problems...

Before the Kalmar War of 1611-13 broke out Gustav II of Sweden nearly found himself in a marriage with Elisabeth of Bohemia, who was James I/VI's daughter. OTl, the wife of Friedrich V of the Palatinate Electorate. It was only the Kalmar War that made marriage impossible as Anne, who had been...

Somewhat a sequel idea to this one I did sometime ago regarding had Scotland won that Euro Play-off match with England. Nice to have have a football question prior before the Euros coming up! :p After that tie until now, Scotland have never made back to a major tournament and the first WC to...

The english naturally have a pretty nasty reputation, and of course it all started in Ireland and Scotland (and wales but i think they got to them a bit later). Despite this they historically would often try to say Britain is a nation of equals. Your goal is to make this true- at least in the...

Basically between 1603 to 1625 James I otl tried to unify the English and Scottish churches and while he came close, he didn't manage to unify the Church of England and Scotland. How could James I accomplish this? What would be the repercussions of this? What would be the effects of it in Ireland?

Chapter 1: The Scottish King of England From The Union of Crowns by Robert William Johnson “It was in January of 1603 when Queen Elizabeth, first of her name, had first developed a bad cold and had been advised by her physicians and her chief astrologer, Dr. Dee to move from Whitehall to...

Hello and welcome to my third timeline, and one that I have been cooking for sometime. As the title suggests, this is going to be a "what if Mary Tudor's pregnancy(ies) had been real rather than phantom?" timeline. I'll try to make this be as realistic as possible, though don't be afraid to...

Written by QTXAdsy The Beginning: Early History and the 1950 World Cup Qualification Situated across a set of islands north of the European continent there lie a race of different nationalities known as either English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish though if you check their passports, most...

Scotland came very close to pipping France to second place in their Euro 2008 qualifying group, but ultimately fell short after losing their last two games 2-0 to Georgia and 2-1 to Italy. What would've happened if they'd won one/both of those games and reached the Euros at Les Bleus' expense...

My objective is to make a united kingdom of Great Britain and Burgundy that survives until 1815 or even to today, but what would be its geopolitical conseguences, how many challenges would it have to fight, who would be its enemies, could it survive protestant reformation and nationalism era...

While it was the Scottish house stuart that united the british isles, it has always been an English dominated project. Your goal, then, is to have it be a Celtic, SCOTTISH dominated state. England must still be Anglo-Saxon POD can be anywhere before the HYW Prior to unification, if that route...

As some of us who know British football will remember for the play offs for Euro 2000 that England and Scotland drew with each other in which England won the first leg 2-0 though Billy Dodds had a brilliant chance to get a goal for Scotland had it not hit the crossbar. And we know the second...

Summer of 1512 Edmund knelt down on his knees in prayer, alongside his sister Mary and his mother Queen Elizabeth. All three of them were praying for the rapid recovery of their king Henry VII, the man who won at Bosworth Field and who inaugurated the Tudor dynasty. But even though they tried...

After the union of crowns in 1603, James I pursued the Scottish and English parliaments to create a political entity that would be an imperial government consisting of both the Scottish and English crowns. This would create a British 'Empire'. Famously James I agreed to keep the English law and...