Tolls saved Britain from pothole hell in the Industrial Revolution, diaries reveal

The "turnpike" toll road system deserves far more credit for improving roads in eighteenth-century England and Wales, a new ...
The Atlantic

Decadence and Decorum: Eighteenth-Century England's Profane Virtues

THANKS to its sense of form and powers of consolidation, eighteenth-century England is one of the great eras or cultures that seem fairly possible to encompass. Civilized, urbane, we say of it; or, ...
UPI

18th-century suicides highlight struggles of growing old in Georgian England

Aug. 10 (UPI) --Growing old has never been easy, but new research suggests that for many the prospects of old age in Georgian England were especially grim. Suicides in 18th century England are mostly ...
The Atlantic

Lecky's England in the Eighteenth Century

THE fifty years which elapsed between 1765 and 1815 cover the most memorable period in modern history, if not in the history of mankind and of human civilization. This half century is one of the great ...
Mansion Global

18th-Century Manor With Turrets and Towers Lists in the South of England

A piece of 18th-century English architectural history has come on the market for the first time in 25 years for an asking price of £6.25 million (US$8.2 million). The 120-acre estate on the border of ...
CU Boulder News & Events

How tea may have saved lives in 18th century England

Drinking tea can have several health benefits. There is seemingly a brew for everything from sleep to inflammation to digestion. In 18th century England, however, drinking tea may have saved a ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

‘Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England’

There was lucre in lunacy in the Age of Reason. A new reliance on institutionalization made care for the insane a growth industry in Enlightenment England. But “mad-doctoring,” as it was known, came ...
JSTOR Daily

Cervantean Satire, Realism, and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.58.1.0078 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/complitstudies.58.1.0078 Copy URL JOSÉ LUIS DE RAMÓN RUIZ is a PhD ...