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r/MedievalHistory

Medieval History, in all its shapes and colors.. This reddit is for the latest developments in Medieval History: please keep other modern topics on religion and politics in their respective subreddits. Founded 2011 · 164.6K members · text posts only

163.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.6K upvotes, which works out to 95 per 1,000 members.

95peak upvotes per 1,000 members
163.5Kmembers
15.6Kbest post
766most comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

88%
Image 88% Gallery 6% Video 2% Link 2% Question 1% Text 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Why the fuck does movies and Tv shows do this?

↑ 15.6K 💬 543 image 2025

Medieval Drip

↑ 5.6K 💬 47 image 2025

Problems with studying medieval history!

↑ 5K 💬 111 image 2025

Medieval times (europe) vs Ancient rome? What interest you more? And why is it the Medieval period?😆Or not...lol

↑ 4.3K 💬 228 image 2025

Which movie or serie has the most inaccurate depiction of the middle ages?

↑ 3.9K 💬 766 image 2025

Which movie or series has the most realitistic depiction of the Middle Ages?

↑ 3.9K 💬 575 image 2025

Did medieval armies have some form of special forces or special operations?

↑ 3.3K 💬 234 image 2025

The Imperial Regalia

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The Hussites - defeating Europes richest armies in the 15th century

↑ 2.4K 💬 73 image 2025

A handful of coinage from various Medieval Islamic dynasties.

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Communities its size

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r/MedievalHistory, in numbers

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What is r/MedievalHistory?
r/MedievalHistory ("Medieval History, in all its shapes and colors.") describes itself this way: This reddit is for the latest developments in Medieval History: please keep other modern topics on religion and politics in their respective subreddits. It was founded in 2011 and has 164.6K members.
How many members does r/MedievalHistory have?
r/MedievalHistory has about 163.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.6K upvotes, which is 95 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/MedievalHistory?
"Why the fuck does movies and Tv shows do this?" reached 15.6K upvotes and 543 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/MedievalHistory.
What subreddits are similar to r/MedievalHistory?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/MedievalHistory?
Of the posts we hold, 88% are image posts and 6% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/MedievalHistory?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 12:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/MedievalHistory?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/MedievalHistory has 1.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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