32. What if?

“The novelist Robert Harris in his hugely popular counterfactual novel Fatherland, which imagines the frightening thought that the Nazis have won the Second World War.”

“The historian, the great historian, the former Regis professor at Cambridge, Richard Evans, he analysed my own pieces in his book, Altered Paths, which is about counterfactuals.”

“The discussion includes a reference to a book by Jeffrey Parker and Philip Tetlock that talks about different kinds of counterfactuals in history.”

“The Difference Engine is a world in which Babbage and Ada Lovelace invent the computer, leading to a technologically advanced Victorian England.”

“Walter Scheidel's Escape from Rome argues that the industrial revolution would have been impossible without the collapse of the Roman empire.”

“The podcast mentions Camilla Townsend's upcoming book, which is described as a fantastic new history of the Aztecs.”

“The speaker refers to a counterfactual novel by CJ Sansom, suggesting it depicts a shadowy Britain under Nazi dominance, which is considered the best in its genre.”