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What if Winston Churchill had been voted out of politics in 1938?
How the fate of Europe may have once rested on 30 Epping Constituency Conservative Party members.
Mar 18
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December 2023
What If the Allies Tried to Disrupt the Holocaust - through bombing the railways to the death camps, or through Covert Sabotage Tactics?
By Rupert Read and Joseph Eastoe
Dec 16, 2023
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October 2023
What if the huge financial backing that has gone to nuclear power since World War Two had gone mostly to renewables instead?
By Rupert Read and Joe Eastoe.
Oct 5, 2023
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May 2023
What If The Koch Brothers Were Pro-Eco?
What state would the world be in now if some of the richest and most powerful men on the planet used their resources for the advancement of…
May 25, 2023
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February 2023
What if Stanislav Petrov had launched a USSR nuclear retaliation to the received reports of incoming US missiles, at the height of 1980s…
It is well-known that the world may at times have been close to nuclear war, for example during the Cuban missile crisis. It is less well-known that the…
Feb 27, 2023
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What if Stanislav Petrov had launched a USSR nuclear retaliation to the received reports of incoming US missiles, at the height of 1980s Cold War mutual mistrust?
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December 2022
What if...SARS had hit the West hard in 2002-3?:
The West is forced to take pandemics seriously from a preparedness perspective, as the East has done, and as a result Covid-19, aka SARS-CoV-2, proves…
Dec 6, 2022
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What if…Bobby Kennedy had not been assassinated?: The environmental President
Bobby Kennedy was a far-sighted critic of the fetish of endless economic growth. What if he and Richard Nixon had made environmentalism a bipartisan…
Dec 6, 2022
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March 2022
What if Al Gore had run on who he was and what he believed in 2000?
A convincing Democrat win changes history, not least on climate.
Mar 14, 2022
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Not Determinism but Determination
An Introduction to Why Counter-Factual History Now
Mar 5, 2022
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February 2022
What if the 1983 UK General Election campaign had been a fortnight longer?
Would Thatcher have lost to the SDP/Liberal Alliance, with Labour a distant third?
Feb 13, 2022
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What if…the republican ‘Liberators’ had won, defeating Mark Antony and Octavian (Augustus)?
Could the Roman Emperors have been prevented? The whole of European history (and moreover the history of applied political thought) looks different, if…
Feb 7, 2022
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What if…the republican ‘Liberators’ had won, defeating Mark Antony and Octavian (Augustus)?
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Why Counter-Histories?
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” - David Graeber. On this…
Feb 7, 2022
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