Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | May 28, 2018–June 03, 2018

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Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.

dandan_noodles

Shoutout to my dude /u/Hergrim for talking about medieval farm sizes

cdesmoulins

I wrote a super belated answer to /u/DoubleTFan’s question about Falstaff’s “chimes at midnight” — though it errs more on the side of Shakespeare commentary rather than a straight discussion of late medieval night life.

Mr_Steal_Your_Grill

I'd like to highlight /u/AlviseFalier's answer about the development of the European Union

headshotcatcher

I wrote an answer to /u/Paulie_Gatto 's week old question the French protectorate of Morocco here!

zinkelburger
Georgy_K_Zhukov
NientedeNada

/u/gjfasd did yeoman's work finding sources to answer Who designed the 16 ray Rising Sun flag? While the actual guy who designed the flag is on the record, the question was more about where the imagery came from, and I was impressed at how /u/gjfasd handled a bunch of very speculative material.

Dudhope

I made an attempt to explain why Scotland retained its "separate civil legal system" after the Treaty Union (or more precisely, I tried to explain why the question appears to have been based on a misconception of Scots law).