Stackblade
Dashboard

Historical Detective Agency

@historyda · Historical Detective Agency · Substack profile · History

Compare
Share

Historical Detective Agency has 4,161 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 19 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 1.

Followers read

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
4,161
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
3.2K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
none shown
Recommended by
19
+1 in 30 days
Recommends
1
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.

4,0504,1004,1504,2004,250 Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 4,161
4,0504,1004,1504,2004,250 Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 4,161
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Historical Detective Agency on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
Show as a table
Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 20264,1613.2K+

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

19 publications recommend Historical Detective Agency; 1 started in the last 30 days. Historical Detective Agency recommends 1. Lists read Oct 31.

Recommend Historical Detective … Historical Detective … recommends Michael Yon51k followersPlain Sight Historynot trackedHomefront Archives: Behind th…not trackedThe Other 304not trackedThe Intellectual Investornot trackedRafle's Substacknot trackedRobert Cossnot trackedJessica's Substacknot trackedGlen Carl's Buon Via Substacknot tracked The Khalsa Chroniclenot tracked Historical Detective Agen… 4.2k followers
Recommend them They recommend Michael Yon51k followersPlain Sight His…not trackedHomefront Archi…not trackedThe Other 304not trackedThe Intellectua…not trackedRafle's Substacknot tracked The Khalsa Chro…not tracked Historical De… 4.2k followers
The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

1Apr 251Jul2Oct132Jan 2612Apr1Jul311Oct
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.
Show as a table
Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2025-041
2025-061
2025-092
2025-111
2025-123
2026-012
2026-021
2026-042
2026-051
2026-083
2026-091
2026-101

Recommended by

  • Michael Yon51k followers · started Apr 2025
  • Plain Sight Historystarted Oct 22, 2026new
  • Homefront Archives: Behind the Uniform started Sep 30, 2026
  • The Other 304started Aug 31, 2026
  • The Intellectual Investorstarted Aug 23, 2026
  • Rafle's Substackstarted Aug 2, 2026
  • Robert Cossstarted May 10, 2026
  • Jessica's Substackstarted Apr 14, 2026
  • Glen Carl's Buon Via Substackstarted Apr 2, 2026
  • mark-Honorseeker.lostintime.#’s Substackstarted Feb 22, 2026
  • Still's Substackstarted Jan 26, 2026
  • Doug's Substackstarted Jan 4, 2026
  • WG's Substackstarted Dec 24, 2025
  • Holly’s Substackstarted Dec 9, 2025
  • RLAWRENCE's Substackstarted Dec 4, 2025
  • Bud Bromleystarted Nov 9, 2025
  • John’s Substackstarted Sep 2025
  • Jonah -I- Dissidentstarted Sep 2025
  • The Outlawstarted Jun 2025

Recommends

  • The Khalsa Chroniclestarted May 2025

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.

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 Historical Detective Agency.

  • Holly A Brown@hollyabrown
    recommends 4 of them
  • Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson@bruceivargudmundsson
    recommends 2 of them
  • Prateek Dasgupta@prateekdasgupta
    recommends 2 of them
  • Emily’s Walking Book Club
    recommends 2 of them
  • Christopher Messina, Enlightentaining Host of Messy Times
    recommends 2 of them
  • Masses and Edges
    recommends 2 of them
  • Pictish Puzzles and Cryptic Celts
    recommends 2 of them
  • Projectkin
    recommends 2 of them
  • Stories Behind the Records
    recommends 2 of them
  • Wet Coast Genealogy
    recommends 2 of them

Share, badge and embed

Badge for your About page

Shows the follower count and weekly change, updates on its own and links here. Pro removes the small Stackblade mark.

Historical Detective Agency follower badge
<a href="https://stackblade.app/w/historyda"><img src="https://stackblade.app/badge/historyda.svg" alt="Historical Detective Agency on Substack: follower count" height="28"></a>

Substack posts don't take HTML. There, add the badge as an image (its address is in the snippet above) and link it to this page.

Card for a website

A small live card with followers and recommendations. Iframe, 360 by 190.

<iframe src="https://stackblade.app/embed/w/historyda" width="360" height="190" style="border:0" title="Historical Detective Agency on Stackblade" loading="lazy"></iframe>

Share this page

Bluesky X Share card