Dean Kirby has 3,265 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 42 publications recommend them, and they recommend 26.
Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 3,265
- read Oct 31
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 2.3K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- none shown
- Recommended by
- 42
- none new in 30 days
- Recommends
- 26
- Bestsellers rank
- not on a board
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | 3,265 | 2.3K+ |
Leaderboard positions
Not on a category leaderboard right now
Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.
Recommendations
42 publications recommend Dean Kirby. Dean Kirby recommends 26, and 18 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2023-04 | 1 |
| 2023-05 | 2 |
| 2023-06 | 1 |
| 2023-08 | 1 |
| 2023-09 | 1 |
| 2023-12 | 2 |
| 2024-01 | 2 |
| 2024-02 | 2 |
| 2024-03 | 1 |
| 2024-05 | 2 |
| 2024-06 | 1 |
| 2024-08 | 1 |
| 2024-09 | 1 |
| 2024-10 | 3 |
| 2024-12 | 2 |
| 2025-01 | 2 |
| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 2 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 2 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 3 |
| 2026-10 | 1 |
Recommended by
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- Yakub Qureshistarted Apr 25, 2026 · mutual
- Your Family Queststarted Feb 27, 2026 · mutual
- Stella's Substackstarted Feb 5, 2026
- Under Northern Skiesstarted Nov 2025
- maurice's Substackstarted Oct 2025
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- Auraist. The best writers on Substack.started Aug 2025
- The Ambient Citystarted Jul 2025 · mutual
- Emily’s Walking Book Clubstarted May 2025 · mutual
- The Fisher's Stackstarted Apr 2025 · mutual
- The Scarf My Father Worestarted Mar 2025 · mutual
- Raymond-john’s Substackstarted Feb 2025
- Nostalgia Digitalstarted Jan 2025
- The Photo Detective Newsstarted Jan 2025 · mutual
- Angela’s Substackstarted Dec 2024
- The Lost & Found Story Boxstarted Dec 2024
- Mission: Genealogystarted Oct 2024 · mutual
- The Northern Ecostarted Oct 2024 · mutual
- Wet Coast Genealogystarted Oct 2024 · mutual
All 42
- Genealogy Matters started Sep 2024 · mutual
- Yorkshire Family Historystarted Aug 2024 · mutual
- Secret Sleuthsstarted Jun 2024 · mutual
- Madeleine’s Substackstarted May 2024
- The Lancashire Leadstarted May 2024 · mutual
- Harry’s Substackstarted Mar 2024
- Journeys into Genealogystarted Feb 2024 · mutual
- Projectkinstarted Feb 2024 · mutual
- Lisa Valentine - Thoughts Onstarted Jan 2024
- The Detective's Notebookstarted Jan 2024 · mutual
- Marie’s Substackstarted Dec 2023
- James’s Substackstarted Dec 2023
- Margaret’s Substackstarted Sep 2023
- The Quack Doctorstarted Aug 2023 · mutual
- Carole’s Substackstarted Jun 2023
- treasaigh’s Substackstarted May 2023
- Bernard’s Substackstarted May 2023
- Lynnie’s Substackstarted Apr 2023
Recommends
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- Your Family Queststarted Feb 12, 2026 · mutual
- Mustard Tree's Newsletterstarted Feb 12, 2026
- On Substackstarted Feb 12, 2026
- The Ambient Citystarted Jul 2025 · mutual
- Culinary History is Family Historystarted Jun 2025
- Wet Coast Genealogystarted Jun 2025 · mutual
- Rest > Create by Clarissa Satchell started Apr 2025
- The Untanglestarted Apr 2025
- The Fisher's Stackstarted Apr 2025 · mutual
- The Lancashire Leadstarted Apr 2025 · mutual
- The Photo Detective Newsstarted Feb 2025 · mutual
- The Northern Ecostarted Oct 2024 · mutual
- The Scarf My Father Worestarted Oct 2024 · mutual
- Genealogy Matters started Sep 2024 · mutual
- Mission: Genealogystarted Sep 2024 · mutual
- Yorkshire Family Historystarted Aug 2024 · mutual
- Emily’s Walking Book Clubstarted May 2024 · mutual
- Journeys into Genealogystarted May 2024 · mutual
- Projectkinstarted Feb 2024 · mutual
- The Detective's Notebookstarted Jan 2024 · mutual
- The Herstorian started Sep 2023
All 26
- Secret Sleuthsstarted Aug 2023 · mutual
- The Quack Doctorstarted Aug 2023 · mutual
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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Who recommends writers like this one
Publications that recommend at least two other History writers with 1,000 to 5,000 followers (51 writers in that group), but not Dean Kirby.
- recommends 8 of themThe Intellectual Investor
- recommends 4 of them
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- recommends 2 of themMasses and Edges
- recommends 2 of themPictish Puzzles and Cryptic Celts
- recommends 2 of themStories Behind the Records
- recommends 2 of themThe Atlantic Passage
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