How many people do you think go on /his/? And what ways

about hundred autists from various places
>/pol/
>/k/
>/v/
>/int/

>>2745830
Some of us are also from /tg/.

>And what ways would you improve it?
It'd be nice if people here actually read.

Given how little books are referenced and how meme-tier a lot of the historical analysis are I'm guessing most people here get their history knowledge from wikipedia, /pol/, cracked etc.

>>2745848
Even on /lit/ people don't actually read

>>2745848
>It'd be nice if people here actually read.
this, but people can't bother spending more than 10 minutes in a row doing the same thing

just got back into it the past few months, and Im studying history in uni in the fall, gonna have a preddy gud time

>>2745848
>>2745863

Any good book suggestions? And perhaps maybe we should start a /hislit/ or /lithis/ general for suggestions and discussions about books?

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>How many people do you think go on /his/?
We get about 20 new threads and 300 new replies every hour.

It's a pretty small board I guess. By contrast /pol/ has 225 new threads and 7500 new replies every hour.

I remember Moot saying something like 90% of the people who browse 4chan never post and only lurk so by that logic /his/ probably has around a few thousand people browsing at any one time.


>And what ways would you improve it?
The reason that /r/AskHistorians is so much better than /his/ is because they have great moderation that ensures anyone who doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about doesn't get a platform to spew bullshit.

Obviously /his/ is a lot more fun, so there should be a way to tag your thread as "Serious replies only" if you're asking a question that you genuinely want an answer to, and any response that's just a meme or a bullshit response without a source to back it up gets deleted. But we'd need more monitors and janitors for that, so probably not going to happen.

>>2745869
>>2745869
I'm hardly an intellectual but I have read a decent amount. I'll put together some /his/ reading charts/lists over the next few days.

>>2745883

Interesting, do you mind sharing where you got the statistics for that comparison?

>>2745885

Very well and that'd be neat, thanks.

>>2745883
/his/ has just the right amount of users. Not too slow but not too fast either. Threads with actual discussions are able to stay for a few days.

big boards like /pol/ or /v/ are virtually unbrowsable, everything moves too fast.

>>2745869
one's I've read in the past few months are
>Caesar Against the Celts - Jiminez
partially an analysis of The Gallic Wars by Caesar, adding fact and occasionally disproving embellishments of his accomplishments, more than that a thorough look at Caesar's military campaigns in gaulic territory and britain
>Great Britain & The Empire: A Discursive History - James A Williamson
A pretty top tier introduction into the history of britain, going back to the first migration to post war britain in only ~200 pages
>Everyday Life In Ottoman Turkey - Raphaela Lewis
a thorough look into the customs, classes, gender roles, religion, and military of the Ottoman Empire and most specifically Istanbul
>John Cabot: The Discovery of Newfoundland - Bernard Fardy
A great book on John Cabot and the discovery of newfoundland, along with the first viking explorers who set foot here

I'm currently reading a series of books on greece printed by the Folio Society, seems pretty ok

Bumping this for discussion about /his/ and for the people just getting up.