I can highly recommend this blog. It does a really good job at presenting academic historical research in a readable way, without silently dumbing things down.

I can highly recommend this blog. It does a really good job at presenting academic historical research in a readable way, without silently dumbing things down. The required detail for the argument is given, and the skipped details are called out as being skipped. I think the fact this article is this high up, without having any comments, suggests that plenty of HNers, like me, just upvote uppon seeing the blog name.