Welcome to the Historical Resources subreddit, a community dedicated to reviewing books, magazines, websites, documentaries and other works specifically created to educate people in an area relevant to history. Like other historical subreddits, we have decided to use a flair system in order to indicate that a commentor or reviewer has degree-level experience in a subject, or professional experience in a subject, or a highly developed amateur interest.

This thread, linked in the sidebar, is where to post in order to get flair in this subreddit. The purpose of flair is not to qualify you in order to post reviews, but to establish your responses as being from someone with a strong knowledge of history. This flair means that your submissions and comments are held to a higher standard, both in tone and rigour. Given the personal nature of reviews offering your own opinion of a review or the work being reviewed is highly encouraged, but only as long as this is done in a civil and helpful manner.

Flair is organised in the following manner; Period, Place/Culture, Discipline/Topic. This enables a relatively streamlined way for flair to be created. No flair will ever be quite as specific as we would like it to be, but the system is relatively flexible. If you would like a flair more specific than this would allow, then messaging the moderators will allow us to take a look.

To qualify for flair, you must already have posted a review in the subreddit. In addition, you must link to three comments you have made in this subreddit or /r/AskHistorians, at least one of which should be relevant to your flair subject. You will be expected to be able to provide sources when asked, to elaborate if possible, and to have a wide knowledge of your chosen subject area.

If it can be demonstrated that a flaired user has been plagiarising content, been consistently incorrect with information about their flaired topic, or unacceptably rude to other posters in the subreddit, then flair can and will be revoked.

Not wishing to end this post on a negative note, a massive thank you to everyone who makes the choice to contribute to the subreddit!