A Fork In Time: The Alternate History Podcast

Oct 30, 2020 • E77 • 00:49:50

Send a Message to the TeamTwice a year, around 70 countries have their citizens make an adjustment to their clocks.  Whether you call it Daylight Saving (not plural) Time or Summer Time, it has an impact on the lives of those that live there--unless they...

Oct 23, 2020 • E76 • 01:05:53

Send a Message to the TeamBrody Burton of "Imagine If" joins for this special crossover episode between our two podcasts.  In addition to providing insight into the origins of "Imagine If", we get the experience of its format with Brod...

Oct 16, 2020 • E75 • 00:17:15

Send a Message to the TeamAlexis pilots this episode and explores another version of English succession, filled with the inevitable multiple "cousin jumps", where the Jacobite line carries to today.

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Oct 09, 2020 • E74 • 00:53:02

Send a Message to the TeamIn October 1912, Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt mere weeks ahead of the American election where Woodrow Wilson was elected.  If Roosevelt had perished instead of survived, some historians would argue that Wi...

Oct 02, 2020 • E73 • 00:30:48

Send a Message to the TeamOn August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal opened to shipping traffic and permitted a shortcut savings thousands of miles of sailing for cargo moving around North and South America from ports around the world.

What would have...

Sep 25, 2020 • E72 • 00:13:12

Send a Message to the TeamPenicillin, like so many of history's important discoveries, has the added flair of an accident.  What if the discovery of the antibiotic properties of this important medical miracle of a fungus had been missed or delayed?

Sep 18, 2020 • E71 • 00:50:32

Send a Message to the TeamOn August 22, 1485, Richard III was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth Field marking the end of Plantegant rule and marking the start of the Tudor dynasty.

How would near-term English and world history have differed with...

Sep 11, 2020 • E70 • 01:09:10

Send a Message to the TeamOn July 20, 1944, an assassination plot against Adolf Hitler led by a group of military and civilian authorities failed.  How might the end of the European portion of World War II have been different if the bombing had succeeded...

Sep 04, 2020 • E69 • 00:46:55

Send a Message to the TeamIn early September 1666, a substantial portion of London was burned in The Great Fire.  Beyond the obvious impact on the appearance of the city, what other things might have been different if the fire had not been as devasting?

Aug 28, 2020 • E68 • 00:26:05

Send a Message to the TeamContinuing the exploration of the last episode's fork.

 In 732 AD, Christians and Muslims clashed at the Battle of Tours with the northward expansion of the Islamic caliphate halted and a strong Christian presence i...