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  1. Footsteps In The Snow - The Swedish Intervention April-May 1945
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    Part 1 - Introduction: Though often considered little more than a footnote in the grand sweep of World War 2, Sweden’s participation in the last 7 days of the conflict in Europe would have significant repercussions on Nordic and European history in the decades that followed. The Swedish...

  2. Clegg Sides with Labour in 2010

    An interesting piece from John Rentoul in The Guardian newspaper on Wednesday 14th November speculating on what might have happened had Clegg's LDs gone into Coalition with Labour in 2010...

  3. The Invasion of Germany 1919

    This is something I've been thinking about for a while. The POD is for whatever reason there is no decision to sortie the High Seas Fleet so it remains tied up in port and there is no mutiny. Germany's allies fall away in October 1918 and especially Austria-Hungary which capitulates to the...

  4. TLIAWK - Grave Matters ?

    My turn to do this because everyone does it. Everyone does what - this absurd internal dialogue. Yep and because this is a Stodge TL it's a good honest British political ATL. That'll please everyone ? No it won't, the American won't understand it. The colonials will be fine as will everyone...

  5. What If Britain had retained the Ionian Islands ?

    One of those little oddities of history is or rather was the United States of the Ionian Islands which existed from 1815 to 1864. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_the_Ionian_Islands The islands were ruled as a protectorate by the British having taken them off the French from 1810...

  6. What If George III Abdicated in 1783 ?

    The release of previously sealed papers has uncovered an abdication letter written by George III in 1783. The loss of the American colonies confirmed by the Surrender at Yorktown in October 1781 and later by the Treaty of Paris affected George III deeply and he took partial responsibility for...

  7. The Constantinople Agreement - What if it had been invoked ?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_Agreement Not sure whether this warrants a Thread on its own or not. A successful Gallipoli would mean a whole host of butterflies (such as Churchill's own reputation). If the allies could knock Turkey out of the war in 1915 or 1916, would this have...

  8. Time to Speak, Time to be Silent...

    I was there that afternoon, all those years ago, in the audience and I remember the cut and thrust of the debate - from Meadowcroft to Hughes, they had their say and the audience hung on every word. The final speaker in the debate was the Party President, David Penhaligon. Apparently he had...

  9. AH Vignette - It's Election Night, Jim

    Sheffield, May 7th 2015 Prime Minister Nick Clegg was on all fours begging for mercy. The cartoonists would have had a field day but his young children didn't care. They were on holiday and Daddy was home early. Miriam told them in Spanish to leave their father alone and go upstairs as the...

  10. The Road From Armageddon

    As the cab crawled along the Las Vegas Strip in the heat of a September afternoon, I wondered exactly what I was doing in Sin City. My Editor had been keen for me to get the viewpoint of Haruka Kirayoshi, the leading, what was she called, psychopolitical analyst. I had imagined meeting a...

  11. For Want of a Drink

    Ok, the wait is over. The new political TL is at hand but first a taster from the lobby of the House of Commons not too long ago: Nicholas William Peter Clegg was irritated – his friend was late which was hardly unusual – but Nick also didn’t know where he had to go which of course his friend...

  12. Protect & Survive - The Visitors

    The fire was low – he brought in more wood and watched in wonderment as he always did as it sparked back into life. The light in the cottage changed once more – new warmth, permeating all but the distant corners where his candles were lit. A reminder, as he had always thought that with light...

  13. What if Bertie died in 1871?

    Just a drop-in from the "Post 1900" board and my British political TLs. The question is this - what if Prince Edward ("Bertie") had died from the typhoid he contracted in early 1871? His son, Prince Albert Victor, would become the second-in-line to the throne at the age of just seven with his...

  14. For Want of A Vote...

    The Smoking Room Bar – Palace of Westminster – October 30th 2003 D: Norman, mind if I join you? N: Not at all, David – are you trying to avoid this Diwali nonsense? D: ‘Fraid so – they don’t go in for it much in my neck of the woods, you know. N: Nor mine – did you see the papers...

  15. For Want of A Debate...

    Monday December 21st 2009 The UK will witness its first ever televised election debate following agreement between broadcasters and the leaders of the three main political parties, it has been announced. The two-hour debate, which will take place one week before Polling Day, will feature...

  16. Which is more likley - a Communist Denmark or a Communist Greece ?

    I put up the question about a Communist Denmark on here many moons ago. Basically, the Red Army were about four hours from getting into Jutland when they met British forces near Lubeck on May 2nd 1945. The British had been aided in their advance beyond the Elbe by the activities of Blumentritt...

  17. Between a Roc and a Hard Place...

    In Michael Hodgson's book "Patricia Roc: The Goddess of the Odeons", Roc talks about her affair with Ronald Reagan whom she first met at the Brown Derby in August 1945. Reagan had just returned from service in the Army Air Corps to find his wife, Jane Wyman, had lost interest in him. Roc...

  18. It was 525 years ago tomorrow...

    A topical one for an anniversary - what if Bosworth had ended differently ? If Northumberland and Stanley had actively joined the battle in support of the King, it's probable Henry Tudor would have been defeated and perhaps killed. With the Tudors defeated and their supporters routed, Richard...

  19. Time for another Alfred....

    I've not seen this one anywhere else on here but apologies if it has been done to death. On the death of Cnut in 1035, there was a power struggle over the succession to his Empire. One man who saw an opportunity was Alfred Aetheling, who had been exiled to Normandy as an infant and now saw a...

  20. Go West - The Romanovs out of Russia ?

    One of these days - probably when I'm not working and I've got some time on my hands, I want to sit a write full timeline where the Romanovs are brought out of revolutionary Russia to England in the spring of 1917 and their impact on European and world history. Until then, I'm interested in...
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