This week I had two answers that sorta flew under the radar:

• For this one I summarized quite a bit of literature on How have historians interpreted the Indian Rebellion of 1857. One thing I find fascinating about 1857 is how central it is to Indian history (writing), but how comparatively little-known it seems to be outside of India - probably with the exception of England.

• And a shorter one were I'm up against Spanish wikipedia on Netzahualcoyotl chose this name after he saw his family being executed, why? A rare question that actually led me to read more for my own research.

Wasn't able to do as much reading this week as I would have liked but here's a couple I remembered to save.

I'm a male peasant in 13th century western Europe. My older brother has just inherited our late father's farm. I don't want to just be a poor farmhand my whole life. What opportunities for getting a better job are there, and how viable are they?

with /u/sunagainstgold.

In the 1845 Northwest Passage expedition, why didn’t the crew of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror ask for help from the Inuit instead of starving to death ? with /u/cdesmoulins

and finally I've heard that it's a common issue in some parts of academia for PhD students to write their dissertations only to find out that someone in the USSR already wrote about this topic decades ago. What were the implications of this in the early 1990s when the Soviet archives were released to the west?

with /u/TenMinuteHistory and some assistance from other various people with actual experience in certain fields.

/u/XenophonTheAthenian on "Why is Ceasar's "Commentarii de Bello Gallico" considered propaganda, when it often seems to take a neutral view that is respectful of both sides, and does not sugarcoat his own actions?"

/u/Georgy_K_Zhukov on "An Askreddit comment with 2000+ upvotes advances an old claim that John Wilkes Booth escaped and lived the rest of his life in the South under several aliases. What have historians written concerning this theory? Is it plausible?"

/u/Koldovstoretz answered "Was there fighting in/around Siberia during WWII? What happened in Siberia during the war? Did many people leave Siberia to fight?"

The inestimable u/WARitter answered a number of my questions on the manufacture of quilted armour in medieval Europe in a series of first rate replies.