I have over the last few months derived great pleasure from the blog of Bret Devereux, an academic historian interested in military history, the classical world, and speculative fiction. He is a sufficiently good writer that he can make subjects I'm not particularly interested in (ancient steel-making processes???) seem fascinating and important. And of course some of his major interests are at least minor interests of mine.
In almost every one of his posts, he requests that people spread the word about his blog; he wants a large audience.
I am more than happy to oblige him and unreservedly recommend:
