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Wasn't there a treaty between three lots of rebels in Medieval England to partition England and Wales among themselves, with a super Wales, and a North and South England? Unlikely to last, but if it did it might allow Ireland to unify and possibly play a strong role in English affairs.

I wouldn't take that as a total given, as the roman catholic church and the free state enjoyed a very close relationship until the 1980s - in an ATL where Ireland has Home Rule, this wouldn't develop to the same extent, and social values might be slightly more liberal, especially if the poor...

He did die of a heart attack OTL, which could happen earlier or later - probably earlier with the stress of being President/Kaiser. I don't see how Hitler could disqualify him for the 1939 election without provoking a military coup, and Willhelm might have managed to crown either himself or his...

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

According to wiki, Crown Prince Wilhelm was interested in running for the German Presidency in 1932, but his father forbid him from running as he preferred Hindenburg. But say Hindenburg decided not to run or was unable to run due to poor health, and Wilhelm II agrees to Crown Prince Wilhelm...

Boris Johnson could have lost his seat in a Conservative meltdown, and indeed still could. Needs a interesting POD to make happen - Boris becomes PM in 2016 and then fucks up so badly he loses his own seat.

Anyone got any further thoughts on this?

I'm more interested in dicussing the impact of a yes vote, not how it occurred, but my first thought would be that the main three parties get complacent, particularly Cameron and don't go north in the last days of the campaign to support the No campaign and Better Together, and/or Cameron makes...

This is a fairly simple question, and one which has been fairly unexplored in AH up to this point. If the Yes campaign had won the Scottish Independence how would the resulting negotations between the (still devolved) Scottish Government and the British government have panned out, and what kind...

If the American's had provided some more support (Naval bombardment, lend-lease, air support), could they have maybe have held onto Hainan, or even a few coastal towns?

BoJo's remain article, and Camerons speech if remain won comes to mind.

The Last War on the TBOverse has a Third World War between NATO and allies, and the Warsaw Pact and Iraq, set in 2005 after a brutal crackdown in East Germany in 1989 means that the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact hold together. It's currently at about day 17 out of an 80-day war, so it will...

Cape Verde might be able to pick up some of the vast numbers of tourists which visit the Canaries and Madeira, particularly if it ends up in the Eurozone.

If the British Government had been more open to retaining protectorates east of Suez, the Trucial States (the modern-day UAE), Qatar, and Bahrain could have remained under some degree of British suzerainty. I once read that the Sheiks in the Trucial States told the British Government that they...

Even if the lease had been for 999 years on the new territories, not 99 years, China would have eventually have convinced the British Government to return Hong Kong.