User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: March 6, 2012/@comment-166269-20120306183832

Archived talk pages on wikis with the new message wall activated are still dissociated from their history on the Monobook skin; there is no way to get from the "history" link on an archived talk page to its actual history without directly modifying the URL. This does seem to work as expected on the Wikia skin, however.