Counterfactuals: Samoan Crisis of 1889
On today’s episode, we talk about the beautiful islands of Samoa, which were the background to a clash between the relatively nascent empires of the United States and Germany in the 1880s. As the cris...
10 Feb 55min
Counterfactuals: Wine Extinction
On today's episode, we discuss the Blight that nearly wiped out wine, and how wine and indeed the world might be different if it had unfolded differently.
27 Jan 59min
Counterfactuals: The Sensational 1876 Election
On today’s episode we talk about one of the most fraught elections in American history, where violence, initmidation and outright fraud precipitated a constitutional crisis - the 1876 election between...
13 Jan 1h 1min
Counterfactuals: The Mutiny That Almost Lost the Revolution
On today’s episode, we talk about the mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line on New Years Day, 1781, and how it might have altered the trajectory of the American Revolution, and everything after.
30 Des 20251h 4min
Counterfactuals: The Battle of the Bulge at Elsenborn Ridge
On today's episode, we talk about a forgotten part of the Battle of the Bulge - Elsenborn Ridge, where outnumbered allied units held against veteran German divisions, and what the chances were that th...
16 Des 20251h 7min
Counterfactuals: The Last Invasion of Britain
On today’s episode we talk about what is often called the last invasion of mainland Britain - a disastrous and almost farcical series of blunders that ended in abject disaster. But what if it didn’t?
2 Des 20251h 1min
Counterfactuals: What if the Chicken Didn't Cross the Road?
Today we talk about the most numerous bird on the planet - the chicken - and how the world might be different if we never domesticated it.
18 Nov 20251h 9min
Counterfactuals: USS Boston and the New Navy
On today’s episode, we talk about some of the first steel-hulled ships the United States ever built, and how those first few ships might have set the tone for the entire 20th century.
21 Okt 20251h 3min
