This week, ending in November 24 2016:
Today's thread is for open discussion of:
History in the academy
Historiographical disputes, debates and rivalries
Implications of historical theory both abstractly and in application
Philosophy of history
And so on
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion only of matters like those above, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
There's a hypothesis that the Huns were related to the Xiongnu, and that their movement started a chain movement of nomads out of the steppes toppling various empires in the process. What do we know about this?
How has the historigraphy of English Dissent & Radicalism changed in the last 50 years?
I had an earlier question about the death of scholarship on Dissenting Academies which didn't see much interest.
More broadly I'd be interested to hear about parts of your field which are lacking in recent scholarship or have been neglected for one reason or another. Why do think this might be? Do you plan to do anything about it? ;)