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  1. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    I heard that in Normandy the Polish Armoured Division spearheads were followed by trucks loaded with British battledress for use by Poles conscripted into Osttruppen battalions by the Wehrmacht and taken prisoner. A bit of a Hobsons Choice probably.

  2. What if the Norman Conquest of England Failed?

    The chances of the sons of the second marriage being old enough to contend for the throne when Harold dies depends entirely on their age when Daddy goes on to his heavenly reward. If he dies at about 60 they'll be too young to gather a strong party around them unless supported by their uncles...

  3. The Bulldog Holds On: What if Churchill won in 1945

    Churchill's pre WW1 record is also worth a look, especially when you consider his pre Admiralty offices such as President of the Board of Trade where he introduced the Miners Eight Hours bill which restricted the number of hours worked underground. He was prominent in the Asquith...

  4. Earliest possible Kingdom of Great Britain?

    I wouldn't have called Edmund I and Edraed as weak successors. Problem was both of them died young, Edmund stabbed in a fight and Edraed suffered from ill health. The turmoil of the age and the consolidation of English control over York and the Five Boroughs was probably the limit of the Kings...

  5. English Federalism?

    I remember the referendum on a North East Assembly which was roundly defeated because there was no common NE identity. North East England is a geographic term, not a cultural, ethnic. social or political entity. The locals are more like a set of warring tribes, Geordies vs Mackem, Smoggies vs...

  6. AHC: have Anglo-Saxon paganism survive longer

    As far as Bede was concerned his ancestors souls had been damned to hell because the Welsh/Britons decided out of hate to allow it to happen. No wonder he wasn't exactly a fan of Briton bishops or clerics - he felt that they hadn't tried enough or else given in to hate or fear.

  7. AHC: A Breton William the Bastard

    William had no realistic claim to the English throne not being a blood descendant of an earlier King, one of the qualifying criteria to be a King in Anglo-Saxon England. Even his wife, Matilda of Flanders, had a better claim being descended from Alfred the Great. As to being Edward the...

  8. English Devolution with no Iraq war

    I remember at the time looking through the details of the powers supposedly devolved from Westminister and finding out that more powers would actually be moved upwards from the local councils than devolved downwards from central government. The North East is also not a coherent entity being...

  9. WI: Stalin's proposal for German reunification accepted

    I don't think that they'll be any de-escalation. First close or disputed election will see the losers calling in their ideological sponsors in which in turn will cause their opponents to plead with theirs to intervene. Besides which a reunited communist Germany would be far too much a threat...

  10. WI: Edward the Exile survives

    He could well have lived into his sixties. His uncle, Edward the Confessor, the only one of Aethraed Unraed's sons we know who died definitely of natural causes, lived well past sixty. In 1066 he'd have been back in the country nearly a decade and would, one would assume have developed his own...

  11. WI: Edward the Exile survives

    Edward is reputed to have spent some time in the court of Yaroslav the Wise in Kiev. As the Kievan Rus were descended from Swedish Varangians he could have been fluent in Old Norse, a language spoken in many parts of Northumbria and closely related to the old Danish dialects of the Danelaw...

  12. What would a free Britain look like during a US-Third Reich Cold War?

    Sounds like Orwell's 1984. US/UK = Oceania, Nazi Europe = Eurasia & Japan's Co-Prosperity Sphere = Eastasia?

  13. Elizabeth 1 Dies on Eve of Armada, Who succeeds?

    James was a pragmatist. He barely knew his mother as she was imprisoned in Loch Leven castle when he was barely one. He would have taken some action for the sake of appearances but would blame Elizabeth rather than the prime movers such as Cecil or Walsingham. As Elizabeth always blamed her...

  14. Montgomery dies June 6 1944

    Probably Bradley - he's in the loop for the D Day planning so will be up to speed. Whether he's up to the job is another matter as I don't know enough about how well he interacts with the military of other countries. The Battle for Normandy consisted of attritional fighting in the...

  15. What would Churchill's legacy be if he died in 1939?

    You're forgetting his time as President of the Board of Trade where he brought in reforms including limiting miners to 8 hours at the coalface and tightening up safety standards underground. He vetoed the deployment of soldiers to the Tonypandy riots sending in unarmed policemen from the Met...

  16. How Do We Prevent The Worst Of England's Actions With Scotland, Ireland, and Wales?

    As a North Country Englishman I have an ancestral awareness that Scottish expressions of national virility have traditionally involved burning our huts! At a railway station where I live there is a beautiful map of the old pre-Breeching rail network in the north made out of ceramic tiles...

  17. WI: Canute loses the Battle of Ashingdon, 1016?

    Godwin's first mention in any documentary source is supposed to be in the will of the Atheling Aethelstan, Edmund Ironside's older brother, in 1014 where he is gifted an estate supposedly confiscated from Wulfnoth Cild after the 1008 naval fiasco. Wulfnoth is often identified as Godwin’s father...

  18. Romano-British Language

    There is an argument that the English language split away from Continental German languages a lot earlier than was previously thought. Studies of the ways that Polynesian languages have diverged from one another after individual islands/island groups were settled in the Pacific have led to some...

  19. Wi: One of King Harrold Godwinson's sons removed William the Conqueror

    The main hinderance that faced any of the potential Anglo Saxon leaders at the highest level of society post Hastings was youth. Earls Edwin, Morcar & Waltheof were all young, in their early twenties, and inexperienced. Both Morcar & Waltheof had only just come into their Earldoms so could not...

  20. Norman Conquest of England Repelled

    Harold's defeat of William at Hastings would have proved to the medieval mind that God had come down on the side of the English. There would have been some frantic negotiations on both sides for the return of the papal banner William was supposed to have had and then I think a return to the...
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