This article aims to discuss the relationship between what we will call “unconventional histories”, the Theory of History and the History of Historiography. We will discuss the possible openings of these disciplines to the spheres that strain with their more settled protocols. Moreover, we seek to reflect on the relationship of these openings with the emergence of a temporality that has transformed the Humanities and their epistemological priorities. We will argue that the practical past, the Critical Quantitative Inquiry, the paradigm of presence, Public History and popular historiographies would be some examples of openings for “unconventional histories” since these perspectives can critically intervene in speeches and academic and historiographical paradigms.