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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.
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Rupert Read

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
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Rupert Read

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.
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Rupert Read

May 2023

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…
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Rupert Read

December 2022

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.
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Rupert Read
Not Determinism but Determination
An Introduction to Why Counter-Factual History Now
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Rupert Read

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?
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Rupert Read
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…
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Rupert Read
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…
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