23 Sep 2020 - 1:07am

Europe’s Islamic golden age If an Arab army had defeated the Franks in 732, the history of Christendom would have been drastically altered

Justin Marozzi

21.09

Alaska could have ended history If Russia hadn't sold the territory to the USA, the Cold War might have heated up

Daniel Kalder

18.09

History began with a counterfactual If Athens had been wiped out by Persia, perhaps none of us would study the past

Tom Holland

17.09

What if Magna Carta had died (in vain)? The agreement between King John and the barons has become part of the English national myth

Polly Mackenzie

15.09

Did the French Revolution cause Nazism? If Louis XVI had hung onto his throne, Europe wouldn't have been overrun by tyranny

John Lewis-Stempel

14.09

What if the feminists had won? Eleanor Rathbone's proposal to pay women for housework and childcare was just too ahead of its time

Mary Harrington

10.09

Imagine a world without the USA… France and Britain have reached a stalemate in North America and no colonial rebellion ensues

James Kirkup

09.09

The glorious reign of King Henry IX What if Henry VIII's son by Katherine of Aragon had survived?

Suzannah Lipscomb

08.09

The greatest stories never told Introducing ‘Alt Histories’ – a series in which we explore what we can learn from what didn't happen

Peter Franklin