Throughout the past ten years, we have posted updates on the progress of the blog to mark what appeared to us, at the time, significant milestones:

• 17 February 2012        first post, L&RUK
• 11 June 2012               start of regular posts
• 17 Sept 2013               100,000 page-views
• 27 March 2016             500,000 page-views
• 30 March 2017             750,000 page-views
• 25 February 2018      1,000,000 page-views
• 17 May 2018              1,075,950 page-views
• September 2019        1,500,000 page-views
• 29 January 2021        2,000,000 page-views
• 11 June 2022             2,357,331 page-views
• 19 January 2023        1,000 subscribers*
• 9 February 2023         2,500,000 page-views

The posts describing these milestones include:

• Prayers at council meetings, 17 February 2012. [First post, L&RUK]]
• Lay employees and church discipline, 11 June 2012. [Start of regular posts, L&RUK]
• Blogging on law & religion – 250-odd posts: 50,000 hits, 7 March 2013.
• Law & Religion in 100,000 page-views, 17 September 2013.
• Law & Religion in 1,000 posts, 30 July 2015.
• Two views of L&R blogging, Observations of Dr Ed Peters, 27 September 2015.
• Law and Religion UK – a recent milestone, 28 March 2016, 500,000 page views.
• Writing on the “graffiti wall of death” – the role of an academic blog, Some thoughts presented to the “Meet the Editors and Bloggers” session at the LARSN Conference, 7 May 2016.
• The state of the blog, 27 February 2018 (1,000,000 page-views).
• 1.5 million page-views, 29 August 2019.
• Recent interest in law and religion in the UK, Evidence from 1.5 million page-reads, 30 August 2019 (1.5 million page-views).
• A further event of note in 2020 was an interview about the blog by the Ecclesiastical Law Society which was posted on YouTube on 7 May.
• Still writing on the “graffiti wall of death” Ninth anniversary of its first appearance on 17 February 2012, and 2 million page-views on 29 January 2021, 7 February 2021.
• Ten Years of Law and Religion UK, 11 June 2022.
• On passing 1000 subscribers, 19 January 2023.
• Another half-million page views,10 February 2023.

* as at 10 February 2023 at 16:57.