Rising on Substack this week: History

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

The Culturist

441k followers · #3 History Bestsellers

+32 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 77 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Colin Gorrie

102k followers · #19 History Bestsellers

+31 in 30 days · +2 in 7 days 54 in all

52 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

This Day In History

447k followers · #65 History Bestsellers

+25 in 30 days 52 in all

51 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Mythology: Gods and Monsters

148k followers · #29 History Rising

+22 in 30 days 53 in all

52 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Adam Tooze

256k followers · #2 History Bestsellers

+20 in 30 days 73 in all

42 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Books Behind Borders

87k followers · #48 History Bestsellers

+14 in 30 days 50 in all

29 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Lucy Worsley

94k followers · #9 History Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 58 in all

27 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

James Lucas

100k followers · #10 History Bestsellers

+11 in 30 days 53 in all

33 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Holly A Brown

16k followers · #39 History Bestsellers

+11 in 30 days 54 in all

17 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Cool Stories About History

7.5k followers · #12 History Rising

+11 in 30 days 33 in all

33 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Nick Collins

5.1k followers

+11 in 30 days 27 in all

18 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Sam Dalrymple

27k followers · #34 History Bestsellers

+9 in 30 days · +2 in 7 days 50 in all

16 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.