Alternative courses of history are exciting ‘what if’ scenarios. They explore what the world might look like if certain events had happened differently. For example, what would have happened if an important war had ended differently or an invention had been made earlier? These ideas are fun, but it's important to realise that they are not real history. They help us to better understand the significance of decisions and coincidences in the past, but they remain thought experiments and not facts.

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