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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 1d

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Labour government accepts Lord Mountbatten's proposal for continued East of Suez commitments through a Commonwealth Defence Partnership? 1965 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Wilson and Healey accept the "Mountbatten Compromise"
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 6d

#tweetfromalternatehistory July 1905 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier decides that the St. Lawrence Seaway plan will go forward
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 7d

#tweetfromalternatehistory 1744 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory guerilla forces under Cudjoe (Kojo), the greatest of the Jamaican Maroon leaders, captured Spanish Town, the old capital of the Crown Colony and proclaimed a "Confederation of the Mountains" www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...

Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 8d

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Dombey Mission Succeeds? 31st May, 1793 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Joseph Dombey safely reaches the USA where he is greeted & entertained as a foreign dignitary by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...

Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 10d

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif gender-flipped life of Charles II, from Princess to Restored Queen? with @restorationhat.bsky.social St. James's Palace- 29 May, 1630 #BornOnThisDay in #alternatehistory Princess Carolina to King Charles I & Queen Henrietta Maria
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 11d

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis had lived to bypass Fort St. Elmo? 1565 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Great Siege of Malta ends in Ottoman Victory and declaration of Ottoman naval fortress, "Melita-i Kebir" (Great Melita) www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...

Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 12d

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Einstein Letter started Manhattan Project 18 months earlier? Part 3 #OnThisDay #alternatehistory Starting in June 1942, the Great Lakes Project started working in two contradictory directions www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...

Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 14d

#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Crockett had survived the Alamo & run for President years later? Limestone - East Tennessee 17th August, 1786 #BornOnThisDay in #alternatehistory Texas's savior David (Davy) Crockett www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...

Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 18d

#tweetfromalternatehistory October 14th, 1912 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory just weeks before Election Day, former President Theodore Roosevelt was assassinated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, while he was on the campaign trail for a historic third term of office www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...

Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 21d

#tweetfromalternatehistory 1613 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory armed English merchants rebuffed at Surat by Buddhist Chindian soldiers. England re-focuses naval resources in the Americas, postponing a great clash of civilizations
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 22d

#tweetfromalternatehistory #Alaska #whatif a very different future for Russian America? 1804 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Russian Defeat at Battle of Sitka
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 25d

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif the Soviet Double Agent John Cairncross had been assigned to Alan Turing's team? 23rd August, 1943 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Soviet victory at Kursk gives the Imitation Game away www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...

Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 27d

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif #EugeneGenovese fired by #RutgersUniversity to kick #Communism out of the Classroom Montreal, Canada - 2012 #diedonthisday in #alternatehistory exiled anti-American academic dissident Eugene Dominic Genovese
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 28d

#tweetfromalternatehistory Whitsuntide, 878 #DiedOnThisDay in #alternatehistory King Alfred killed after being betrayed to the Vikings during a disastrous journey to Egbert's Stone, located east of Selwood, where he was supposed to meet the inhabitants of Somerset www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...

Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 28d

#tweetfromalternatehistory 1690 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistor Publick Occurrences begins its Eternal Publication
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 28d

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif the #Viking Age had survived the eleventh century? 1066 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Supremacy of #Vikings assured in #Saxon defeat at #Battleofstamfordbridge
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · 29d

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Benedict Arnold had been executed? 1780 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Benedict Arnold Meets Washington for Breakfast @chbstone2
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 23

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Einstein Letter started Manhattan Project 18 months earlier? March 12, 1942 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory newly promoted Captain Robert Heinlein continues to focus the Great Lakes Project on its primary goal www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...

Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 23

#tweetfromalternatehistory 1641 #OnThisDay in #alternativehistory Merchant Royal Puts in for Repairs
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 23

#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif by accepting Kwasi Kwarteng's advise to pause, ill-fated British Prime Minister Liz Truss had won out? House of Commons - 8th, September 2022 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Truss Ministry pledges to defeat the Quangocracy
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 22

#tweetfromalternatehistory 1776 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Tallmadge Rescues Hale
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 21

#tweetfromalternatehistory @restorationhat.bsky.social March, 1648 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory the incomparable escape manager Jane Whorwood rescued King Charles from imprisonment at Carisbrooke Castle to flee captivity aboard a French frigate bound for Calais
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 20

Reading Claire Hobson's book "Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown" tinyurl.com/26rvwdjb which is not only brilliantly insightful but very cleverly written making you realize what you're missing with Generative AI! @restorationhat.bsky.social

Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 20

#tweetfromalternatehistory @restorationhat.bsky.social 19th April 1770 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria wed Prince James Stuart at Royal Catholic chapel in Somerset House a venue deliberately chosen to avoid inciting Protestants
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Editor of Today in Alternate History Blog @alternatehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 18

#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social 15, June 1846 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Oregon boundary dispute resolved by President Clay who evinced little interest in line with the Whig view that it was unimportant compared to other domestic problems
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