Financing roads has always been a challenge for communities & governments. In the 1600s the English started putting up barriers -- turnpikes -- and charging fees. @genejean.bsky.social and @howtoreadthisch.art tell all. N.E. USA still calls toll roads turnpikes. how-to-history.com/2026/05/27/t...
Pam Smith Turnpike roads were a system of road management used in England. They were first established in the seventeenth century but not used extensively until the eighteenth. The first turnpike w…
Thought I knew something about English history but I never heard of Church Courts, which enforced local morality and registered wills. Great resource for genealogists and social historians, as @joesaunders1.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social explain. how-to-history.com/2026/04/29/c...
Saturday evening! Talking to @melaniedgkaplan.bsky.social at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore about her book, Lab Dog, describing animal experiments for medical research and her investigation into the background of her adopted lab beagle. Come hear the talk & buy books! www.facebook.com/events/20091...
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Suburbs weren't always fashionable leafy neighborhoods for the well-off. @joesaunders1.bsky.social tells all, including the etymology of "extramural" @howtohistory.bsky.social how-to-history.com/2026/02/25/s...
