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r/UKhistory

117.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 554 upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.

5peak upvotes per 1,000 members
117.6Kmembers
554best post
245most 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.

66% 20% 12%
Link 66% Question 20% Text 12% Video 2%

What the ceiling looks like

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

In 1870s London, the smell hit you before anything else, a mixture of horse manure, human sewage, industrial smoke, and 3 million people

↑ 554 πŸ’¬ 68 text 2026

In the Falklands War, why didn't the British demand that the Argentine government officially renounce its territorial claim as a condition for ending…

↑ 459 πŸ’¬ 45 question 2026

How did the UK manage to go from almost nobody attending university to over half of young people going?

↑ 411 πŸ’¬ 14 question 2025

London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting

↑ 365 πŸ’¬ 26 link 2025

Who is the greatest Prime Minister we never had?

↑ 364 πŸ’¬ 245 question 2025

Why is there less Folk Culture in England than its neighbours?

↑ 310 πŸ’¬ 75 question 2025

Anne Boleyn was executed for adultery with five men, including her own brother. Almost certainly none of it was true. How did Henry VIII's court manu…

↑ 250 πŸ’¬ 50 question 2026

UK city dig unearths grave with 'Black Death' skeletons from seven year pandemic

↑ 246 πŸ’¬ 14 link 2025

No evidence for β€˜witches’ marks’ claims at old English buildings, historian says | Heritage | The Guardian

↑ 243 πŸ’¬ 18 link 2026

Skeleton of Viking who was slain in an 'ethnic cleansing' massacre in 11th century England is reunited with the remains of his battle-hardened warrio…

↑ 243 πŸ’¬ 18 link 2021

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/UKhistory, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.