commonwealth

In 1938 the world had two sources of tension. In Europe Spain was in the second year of its civil war and a embryonic Fascist block was coalescing around the Kingdom of Italy and the ever aggressive German Third Reich. A general European war was feared by all: As diplomats raced to defuse...

IOTL, in 1440 there was a Dowmont rebellion in Samogitia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Samogitia (central part of Baltic Lithuania) against Casimir IV Jagiellon, the new Grand Prince of Lithuania. Dowmont, a Lithuanian nobleman, wanted Michael Kęstutis (Kiejstusiewicz) on the throne...

I made a timeline in which the Soviet Union wins the cold war. The PoD happens in August 1918. In our timeline, Vladimir Lenin was shot after giving a public speech. However, in this timeline he manages to dodge the bullet. Because Lenin never gets shot, he lives long enough to kick Stalin out...

Aight so since I want to expand on this world, and I don't want to flood the map thread, I'm doing a new thread for this. Here's the world in 1990, the usa, and to a lesser extent Eurasia, is still occupied 40 years after the peace treaty, due to major terrorist attacks on each of the occupation...

It is finally time for me to start my not-so-long-teased new TL (which I teased a lot more in the Our Fair Country Discord server, and is actually just a reboot of an earler TL I did)! Presenting, Patagonia 2.0! This will function similarly to many excellent TLs such as Our Fair Country, A...

In 1821, after the Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire, the Mexican congress offered Ferdinand VII to become Mexican Emperor, and establish a sort of Commonwealth with Spain and Mexico. But he refused. What if, Ferdinand VII did accept the Crown of Mexico, and became Emperor of...

I always wondered this. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other that I can list are dominions and territories are associated with UK and recognized the British Monarch as their sovereign. However, most of them still have things, like Independence Days, and their own foreign affairs and...

Looking at a map of shipping lanes in the 19th century, you'd hardly be able to tell that the US and British Empire were different countries, despite protectionist policies in the United States in the 1800s. How could the economic link between Britain and the United States be made into a...

I live in the country of full of loyals, A land that honors god and the king, Of long-ranged mountains that had stretched Down from the southern Andes and Into the northern Andes Her beauty and passion that never dies God will protect our loyal nation. It was the long decades that These angry...

So, part of the problem with the British Commonwealth as constituted under the Instruments of Government was that the position of Lord Protector had no clear successor. The Lord Protector could nominate anyone he wanted, but Oliver Cromwell steadfastly refused to do so publicly. His son Richard...

As in the title, what would be the result of the adoption of changes to the commonwealth along the lines of Powell’s 1953 Speech on the Royal Titles Bill? (link: https://www.enochpowell.net/fr-74.html) Imagine that the uk parliament were hypnotised by ASBs in the early 1950’s and decided on...

What would it take for the UK and its empire to drive on the right side of the road like in most of the rest of Europe. BTW: This is also the same scenario for Japan.

IOTL, when Oliver Cromwell passed away on September 3rd 1658, he was succeeded as Lord Protector by his eldest surviving son, Richard Cromwell. Richard, however, lacked the authority of his father, particularly when it came to dealing with the NMA, and so he was eventually forced to resign. This...

The idea here is simple. All the Stuarts, between the execution of Charles I in 1649 to 1659/1660, all died before they could have a chance to return to power after the death of Cromwell. (Say Charles II is killed following Worcester, etc.) What is the fate of England, Scotland and Ireland...

After the American Revolutionary War, the Spanish minister count Aranda, had proposed reforming the Spanish empire into a commonwealth by turning the colonies into three kingdom's with sons of Charles III being made kings. There are two candidates who come to mind, namely Infante's Gabriel and...

So for those of you who were around before I left the board, I had a TL called the Commonwealth Wank. I've been asked to revive it or start it over now that I'm back, and I've been thinking about it more and more. So, with a bit of inspiration from @Kanan, I am pleased to announce that I have...

One of the key turning points in English history for myself was the death of Henry Stuart in 1612. Strong, virile, and everything the heir to a throne should be, few suspected that in 1612, Henry Stuart would die of typhoid fever at the young age of 18 years old. It makes you wonder what would...

We are aware that after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, the native landlord population to a large extent was pushed beyond the Shannon River into Connacht, and much of the population caught up in the wars were exported as slaves to the West Indies or killed. However, much of the poorer...

Just flown back from my holiday in the Crown Colony of Singapore, it was great but also really weird to be using British currency and reading British newspapers in a city on the other side of the world from the home islands. Of course, the UK almost lost it during the Malayan Campaign of 1942...

After some careful thought and consideration, I've decided to formally open a thread here in the Graphics forum dedicated to Our Fair Country, which I had started over in the pre-1900 forum. The premise behind this is pretty simple; I'm going to use this as a place to post the various maps...