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  1. Labour wins 1983 election in U.K., goes forward with nuclear disarmament... Then what?

    During the 1983 election, Labour proposed unilateral nuclear disarmament and withdrawal from the EEC. What might the consequences have been if this went through? If it takes some finagling in the 1970s or Thatcher's first term, or some modification of other parts of Labour's platform, in order...

  2. Monarcho-Communist Japan (How do we get there, and what does it look like?)

    ITT: Figure out how to make a Monarcho-Communist Japan in the first half of the 20th Century. Hitoshi Yamakawa was a major figure in Japanese Leftism, who, interestingly, argued that Japanese Communism ought to retain the emperor as a sort of personification of the people of Japan. After...

  3. Awesome PODs that you wish got more attention

    What are some ideas or points of divergence that you think are really awesome but get little-to-no attention, and wish that you saw more people doing something with? [Posting this in the post-1900 forum because I figure that's what most of the responses will fit into; hopefully I'm not wrong]

  4. Widespread Macro-engineering

    With any POD between now and the late 1800s (but preferably sometime in the 1900s-1930s, hence its place in After 1900), make it relatively common for governments and any other suitably large groups to fund the construction of vast projects like an early Channel Tunnel (which was actually...

  5. By Sheer Accident

    What are some things that we could have had (or not had) if only one or two things had gone differently? Zeppelins, for instance. To my knowledge, the Hindenburg is what was primarily responsible for the death of zeppelins. I'm mostly concerned with the Twentieth Century, hence why it's in...

  6. The Discovery of Cosmic Background Radiation

    I've read that the discovery of CBR was accidental. Would it be possible for the discovery of CBR to be delayed until the modern-day?

  7. What if Stalin's first wife had lived a full life?

    "This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity." A few months ago I learned about Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died scarcely a year after marrying Stalin. He appeared to have genuine affection for her and while I'm hardly an...

  8. PoDs and the Time of Christ

    A bit affected by the Christmas spirit (but only in a fashion that could be suffered by a member of this board), I'm thinking about dabbling some (and perhaps doing some serious work on, once I find the time to focus on it) on a story set during the time of Christ. One of the things which I'd...

  9. Minor changes

    What are some little things that could have happened which conceivably would have little or no resulting butterflies and are pretty much just flavor changes? Frex, while it's a Before 1900 divergence, there was a timeline on here where coffee's popularity was overcome by hot chocolate, to the...

  10. Population Boosts in Montana, N. Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho

    Stealing from the "Jews go to America instead of Israel" idea, and the idea that Wyoming and Montana were heavily settled by post-WWII Jews, I'm wondering if perhaps other similarly troubled minorities in the US might take a look at Utah (it was a long time ago, sure, but point of the matter is...

  11. Germany wins WWI

    Hello. I'm trying to write up a scenario involving three main points: The Central Powers winning WWI (or, at least, Germany being in a position to make demands of France), a Fascist France rising up, and said Fascist France starting WWII. That said, I'm not entirely confident that I could...
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