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Recent content by Ed Costello

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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I know I’ve shared this with a few folks offline, but I think this staggering bit of interbellum railwayana definitely qualifies for this thread:
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    Helliconia

    Thanks for sharing this, Andy – I started reading Helliconia several years ago, but struggled once past the Prologue of Spring and bounced off Summer hard enough that I never went back to it. It’s great to finally find out what I missed.
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    I do rather enjoy the implication that TTL’s Leeson wrote his own *Wikipedia article.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I don’t know, but I don’t think so; according to the source I saw, the film in question was never released
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    For context, this is the County Sessions House on William Brown Street, Liverpool, and the above photo is from a film shoot in the 1990s (I walked past it every day on my way to work for six years, so this particular bout of chronausea hits quite close to home!)
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    Make the UK less London heavy?

    Much as the cultural chauvinist in me is enjoying the push for Scouse primacy, it’s worth noting that Liverpool and Manchester rose to prominence at the same time and long had a bitterly symbiotic relationship (until they went and built that bloody canal). A more dominant Liverpool means a less...
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    Make the UK less London heavy?

    A large part of London’s expansion was public works projects: the Underground allowed urban and suburban expansion into ever more distant rural areas (Metroland being the ur-example of this, but there are greater or lesser examples from most lines), while Bazalgette’s sewer system made greater...
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Carden and I went to the same school, and I can only imagine how obnoxious they’d be about counting a Prime Minister among the Old Edwardians. They haven’t shut up about Michael Edwards, and he’s been dead twenty years!
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    this is a very personal atta
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    Stupid deaths that never happened

    USS William D. Porter torpedoing the Iowa with FDR aboard would be high up on the list. Especially if FDR cops it due to insisting on being wheeled out to watch the torpedo go by.
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Tim Curry for Stanley Baldwin biopic, when?
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    This was a great list, but I'm severely disappointed nobody has brought up ZOMBIE TIME-TRAVELLING STANLEY BALDWIN because it feels very C&C
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    Getting a UK prime minister to lose their seat

    Depending how creative one wanted to be, Harold Wilson was initially elected as an MP for Ormskirk, a seat which had long periods of being a Lab-Con (or Lab-NatLab) marginal. Huyton, his second seat, was also a pretty marginal constituency pretty much up until he became Labour leader. Wilson as...
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    What do you do when you can't sleep? I personally chose to spend an hour painstakingly copying hexadecimal codes into the forum software to bring you this list in all its technicolour glory. Coalition Coupon Retained [1] Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
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    Best Pre-AH.com Internet Alternate History

    For All Time was the timeline that led me to the AH online community due to being hosted on AH.com back in the day; I think it was similar for many people, so it probably ranks as one of the most influential works (if one that shows its flaws very readily). What If Gordon Banks Had Played...
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