73pctgeek / #History

https://anyhumanever.com/

Draw one random life from the more than 100 billion humans who have ever lived. Every detail sourced.

https://ordinaryabundance.com/

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-it-was-like-to-seek-asylum-in-medieval-england

So you are in 13th century England and you’ve been accused of, or maybe have actually committed, a murder. To be taken into custody and tried would likely...

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-greatest-norwegian

Harald Hardrada - your boys took a hell of a beating

https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/the-history-behind-the-signs-lighting

Branding Main Street America and a rabbit hole into the history behind the vacuum-formed signage found in our daily lives

https://commonedge.org/high-density-living-2000-years-ago-inside-the-roman-apartment-building/

An excerpt from the new book Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home.