Hi,

Here at r/AskHistorians, some of the Internet's best academic minds are assembled. But one thing we can't do is ask people from history directly what their lives were like. I've often fantasized about being able to talk to a Roman, or a tribe of ancient Norse, and interview them first-hand about their lives- and I'm sure many other followers of this subreddit have too. This is of course impossible, but here, we have the resources to do the next best thing.

Which is why I'd like to suggest a new feature to the mods: AMA Historical Role Play!

Someone who is an expert on a certain time period (say, for example, the English Civil War) could pose as a person who lived in that time, and we could ask them questions which they would have to answer in the first person.

Of course, such a feature would rely on some conjecture, and therefore such AMA events would need to be clearly differentiated from the rest of the subreddit. However, this idea would be completely in the spirit of this sub, and I'm sure many people on here would like to see such a thing.