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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.
Gather round one and all for another fantastic edition of the Sunday Digest! Winter is moving in up here in Canada-land, and the growing darkness just means more time to read awesome history answers. Enjoy the selection pain staking curated for you below, and don’t forget to show some appreciation to those hard working writer’s who do such a good job.
Also check out the weekly specials, and the wide variety of special threads we had this week!
Megathread: Roe v. Wade and abortion in America thanks to /u/EdHistory101.
I'm Dr. Toby Capwell, here today to talk about Arms and Armour in the Age of Richard III! AMA! big thanks to /u/tobiascapwell.
AskHIstorians Podcast Episode 186 - Footwraps with Brynn Derwen.
Muster up for the Thursday Reading and rec.
Join the party in the Friday Free for All!
We had multiple answers in the Saturday Showcase this week!
That wraps me up for another weekened, and means I can return to my brief hibernation before next Sunday approaches. Keep it classy out there folks, and I’ll see you next week!
The digest is also a chance to show some love and appreciation to those overlooked questions that caught our eye but remain unanswered! Feel free to post up your own, or those you liked, and perhaps a wandering expert will drop by. This has been, in my most humble of opinions, an excellent week for questions.
It's the first Digest of the month, which means it's time for another installment of "The Real Questions", where we take a look at the wilder side of r/AskHistorians! Here, I give a shout-out to people asking the more atypical questions on this sub: questions that investigate amusing, unique, bizarre, or less common aspects of history, as well as ones that take us through intriguing adventures of historiography/methodology or niche/overlooked topics and moments in history. It's always a wide (and perhaps confusing) assortment of topics, but at the end of the day, when I see them I think, "Finally, someone is asking the real questions!"
Below are my entries for the last month - questions with a link to an older response are marked with ‡. Let me know what you think were the realest questions you saw this month, and be sure to check out my full list of Real Questions.