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Very simple but hopefully interesting question - what's the longest possible rule? If you only count sovereign states (and I do for the purposes of this, since otherwise the possibilities become near infinite) then in OTL the record of 72+ years set by Louis XIV is on track to hold pretty much...

As simple as the title, really. A lot of no-WWI mythologizing rests on the twin pillars of (1) the British Empire remaining gloriously apart and unconcerned, and (2) the US never dipping its toe into the politics on the other side of the Atlantic. The two go virtually hand in hand in AH...

A fun but (very) broad question that I always like to chat about - what times lend themself to good AH? What decades feel the most counterfactual? The least? A good POD really can be anywhere and anywhen, but I hope I’m not going too far out on a limb when I say that things feel especially in...

Labour's most renowned leader is also, arguably, it's luckiest, if only because the roots of his rise to power were seeded in the utter devastation that was his party circa 1931. Battling circumstances (and Ramsay MacDonald) Labour plunged from 287 seats to 52 and from a leadership perspective...

Some more sacred codtent: you may know that Plymouth, as with most of the early British colonies, was set up as a joint-stock company and, as with most of the early joint-stock companies, failed miserably and was disbanded in 1635, with the result being that Plymouth was able to somewhat...

Inspired by semi-recent musing on some of the parallels between New English & Canadian identity (points to @Dan1988) I've come to offer up a spin on an alt-Revolutionary War outcome that I don't think I've ever seen before, namely one where New England (!) is the one corner of the colonies to...

A lot of PODs center around "saving" an extinct dynasty, but the Hapsburgs, subject of this post, came awfully close to crisis right before their moment of greatest triumph - Charles V, who inherited a country from each grandparent and established the first empire on which the sun never set...

Have been doing a little dive into ‘30s British politics inspired by the recent Greenwood thread and some @Ares96 basemaps - I had never realized before how cataclysmic for Labour 1931 was, and I also had not realized (am aware this is a bit reductive) that Lansbury and Attlee became leader and...

Been doing a little reading lately (fun, right?) and I’ve noticed that one of the foundations of the US election system is fairly flimsy w/ regards to butterflies. I refer, of course, to the Iowa Caucus. Iowa has garnered fame, importance, and unholy ethanol subsidies by being first in the...