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Plausability of a British Revolution in a TL with a turbulent America?
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Why? If we had to unload ourselves of an unacceptable King, there were plenty of Princes and Princesses waiting in the wings. Keep in...
Mar 29, 2024
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Why do you think there is more interest in the Tudors than the Stuarts among the general public?
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I think Charles Oman suggested it, because the name "Cerdic" bears a suspicious resemblance to Caradoc or Coroticus. Alfred Duggan...
Mar 28, 2024
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Why do you think there is more interest in the Tudors than the Stuarts among the general public?
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He was half-Danish, his mother Gytha being King Canute.'s cousin. I've seen it claimed online that his father Godwin was descended from...
Mar 28, 2024
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Why do you think there is more interest in the Tudors than the Stuarts among the general public?
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That and all the heads he chopped off [1] There's a reason that he is the only King of England whose picture *every* Brit would...
Mar 28, 2024
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What would've happened if the miracle at the Marne never happened?
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I doubt if a purely defensive strategy is politically possible. Men will still get killed in sizeable numbers, and if there's no sign...
Mar 16, 2024
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What would've happened if the miracle at the Marne never happened?
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Your best PoD is probably the Battle of Mons. Had Kluck continued on his original path (rather than moving closer to Bulow as Moltke...
Mar 16, 2024
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Welcome to AH.com! Just to let you know you generally want to expand a little more in the Original post. For starters, what was the...
Mar 16, 2024
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What would have happened if a random commoner had addressed the British monarch by their first name?
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Iirc flogging of *adults* (except in prisons) was abolished in 1948. School canings were abolished in 1986, but only in state (US...
Mar 14, 2024
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Why did Washington state and New Mexico take so long to earn statehood?
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It actually went for grant in 1868 and 1872, but for Tilden in 1876 and not Republican again until 1896, after which it was mostly...
Mar 14, 2024
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What would have happened if a random commoner had addressed the British monarch by their first name?
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Charles II certainly would. There is a story about him meeting Quaker William Penn, who firmly kept his hat on -- a gross breach of...
Mar 14, 2024
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What alternate history ideas you wish they were used more often?
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Not sure but I wondered about the Bourchier family, descended from RoY's sister. They might maintain some sort of opposition on behalf...
Mar 13, 2024
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What alternate history ideas you wish they were used more often?
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A bushel of beheadings. As York, his two eldest sons and Warwick abandon their troops and flee from Ludlow in 1459, they run into a...
Mar 13, 2024
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Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid
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Yeah you're probably right. I don't normally come into threads halfway through and it was probably a mistake. Signing off now.
Mar 13, 2024
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Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid
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c Why did they need to decrease it? Many planters were old Whigs and had either opposed secession or accepted it only with reluctance...
Mar 11, 2024
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Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid
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An ASB situation. The most votes that idea ever got in Congress was 37 out of 163 cast. IOW only one fourth even of the *Republicans*...
Mar 10, 2024
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