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Your average UK Secondary school (so around 800 students, sixth form, plenty of teachers and plenty of poorly behaved students) gets ISOT back in time to the Battle of Britain. I'll work on the grounds the school was built on a greenfield site so doesn't displace anything. The biggest benefit...

In 1995, John Major resigned as Tory leader in order to force his critics in the party to 'put up or shut up.' This proved a success for Major, who beat John Redwood by a large margin in a vote of Tory MP's, and survived as Tory leader until after the 1997 election. But Major set himself a...

https://www.boj.or.jp/en/research/wps_rev/rev_2009/data/rev09e02.pdf Reading this, Japan had a pretty torrid time economically in the 1920's, with the Great Kanto earthquake causing great financial instability, leading to a partial bailing out of the Japanese banking system in 1927, followed by...

Say that the Yes campaign manages to fight a more competent campaign and the No vote makes some massive blunders. What impact would this have on the 2015 General Election, and British politics in general?

If John Kerry won the 2004 Presidential election, how would his first term have gone? How would he have handled the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq? What policies would a Kerry adminstration try and pass through congress? How would a Kerry adminstration tackle the global financial crisis...

I've been doing some research on this, and I don't think it is as inplausable as people like to think it is. Germany signed a non-aggression agreement with Poland in 1934, which they only revoked upon, when the Poles were unwilling to allow the construction of a extraterritorial railway and the...

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...

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...

Currently, the remnants of the British Empire, the British Overseas Territories are a collection of self-governing islands, most of them too small to be a viable state. They do not have any representation in Parliament, unlike Overseas France, which has representation in the French Parliament...

The DNVP were the primary Nationalist and Conservative party in the Weimar Republic until they were eclipsed in around 1930 by the Nazi party. They managed to retain some influence during the last years of the Weimar Republic, and ended up disbanding after Hitler passed the Enabling act in 1933...

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We wake tomorrow morning, to find that Britain has been sent back to November 1944 - Nazi Germany and Fascist Japan still rule large parts of Europe and Asia - The Soviet Union is waiting to descend on Europe like a Jackal. - Britain still has a massive colonial empire Britain is faced with a...

Had, in 2010 David Cameron been able to win a small majority of 10 - 20 seats, what kind of effect would that have on the 2010-2015 parliament, and the next election? The Liberal Democrats might benefit out of this, as they avoid the taint of the coalition, and the Conservatives wouldn't be able...