Jay Hancock
@jayhancock.bsky.social
Former reporter pursuing the past. Writing book on language history. Substack on history, economics, stuff. 2020 Pulitzer finalist for investigative journalism. jayhancock.substack.com
'At some point, a friend called from Argentina and said, “Come here: there’s no war, and people drink wine.” @meduza.io meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Many Russians who left because of the war had to start over abroad. Some found careers they never expected. — Meduza
People who left Russia after the start of the full-scale war have had to start their lives over from scratch. They’ve had to learn a new language, absorb the local culture, traditions, and bureaucracy...
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August 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
'At some point, a friend called from Argentina and said, “Come here: there’s no war, and people drink wine.” @meduza.io meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Pilgrimage is an old tradition that resonates with moderns. You've heard of St. Thomas Becket in England. Our Lady of Walsingham of Norfolk was a new one for me. @joesaunders1.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social explains the tradition in a new How-to History. how-to-history.com/2026/07/29/p...
Pilgrimage
Joe Saunders During the medieval period in Europe pilgrimage was a key feature of religious life. Many people went on pilgrimage at least once in their lives.[1] These were visits to locations of s…
how-to-history.com
July 30, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Pilgrimage is an old tradition that resonates with moderns. You've heard of St. Thomas Becket in England. Our Lady of Walsingham of Norfolk was a new one for me. @joesaunders1.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social explains the tradition in a new How-to History. how-to-history.com/2026/07/29/p...
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I’ve charted American hegemony during the Iranian campaign
June 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I’ve charted American hegemony during the Iranian campaign
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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June 11, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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...
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...
Turnpike Roads
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…
how-to-history.com
June 8, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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...
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"Gentlemen, you can't report in here! This is the press office!"
SCOOP: The Pentagon has banned journalists from its press office, designating it a classified space. The change creates a new barrier between journalists and the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions.
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Pentagon bans journalists from press office, designating it a classified space
The change creates a new barrier compared with previous administrations, under which the office was an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without es...
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June 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM
"Gentlemen, you can't report in here! This is the press office!"
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...
Church Court Jurisdictions
Joe Saunders In medieval and early modern England the Church, initially the Catholic Church and then Church of England, operated a system of ecclesiastical courts. Such courts, famously called the …
how-to-history.com
May 6, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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...
Exactly
The point here is missed by those pompous anti religion folks.
The pope is using what he can to fire at Trump, Netanyahu et al.
Hes a statesman. He cant turn round and call them effers. So he uses his playing field to take them down.
Doesnt matter if you believe or not. Hes fighting his way
The pope is using what he can to fire at Trump, Netanyahu et al.
Hes a statesman. He cant turn round and call them effers. So he uses his playing field to take them down.
Doesnt matter if you believe or not. Hes fighting his way
Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC
March 29, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Exactly
Photography is art mediated/ assisted by technology. So why aren't AI novels art?
March 20, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Photography is art mediated/ assisted by technology. So why aren't AI novels art?
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...
February 26, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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...
lol @mchinn.bsky.social finds EJ Antonini & the Heritage Foundation creating excellent econometrics teaching material by making many stupid mistakes that beginners should avoid. econbrowser.com/archives/202...
Cautionary Notes to Avoid Rookie Economist Errors, Revised Edition: | Econbrowser
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February 23, 2026 at 9:43 PM
lol @mchinn.bsky.social finds EJ Antonini & the Heritage Foundation creating excellent econometrics teaching material by making many stupid mistakes that beginners should avoid. econbrowser.com/archives/202...
Antiquaries like to potter around cool stuff left by people from the past! Long on observation and short on theory, they get looked down on by academic historians. @joesaunders1.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social gives them their due. how-to-history.com/2026/01/28/a...
Antiquarianism
Joe Saunders Antiquarianism is the investigation of the past through its material remains. Antiquarians have served an important part in the study of history over the last few hundred years, and th…
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January 28, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Antiquaries like to potter around cool stuff left by people from the past! Long on observation and short on theory, they get looked down on by academic historians. @joesaunders1.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social gives them their due. how-to-history.com/2026/01/28/a...
"You were given the choice between endorsing the quack RFKjr and losing your seat. You chose the quack. And you will lose your seat."
Guess who got screwed over.
Bill Cassidy royally screwed up.
He reportedly endorsed RFK Jr because he was afraid of losing support.
Trump endorsed his GOP opponent yesterday.
🧪 The leopard eats all faces.
He’s got some explaining to do.
Bill Cassidy royally screwed up.
He reportedly endorsed RFK Jr because he was afraid of losing support.
Trump endorsed his GOP opponent yesterday.
🧪 The leopard eats all faces.
He’s got some explaining to do.
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 AM
"You were given the choice between endorsing the quack RFKjr and losing your seat. You chose the quack. And you will lose your seat."
Before insurance companies & government welfare, people set up "friendly societies" to assist each other when hard times hit. They kept careful records, @howtohistory.bsky.social & Joe Saunders write, which increasingly furnish data to historians. how-to-history.com/2025/12/31/f...
Friendly Societies
Joe Saunders Prior to the development of government and employer health insurance and financial services, friendly or ‘benevolent’ societies were an important part of many people’s lives. These soc…
how-to-history.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Before insurance companies & government welfare, people set up "friendly societies" to assist each other when hard times hit. They kept careful records, @howtohistory.bsky.social & Joe Saunders write, which increasingly furnish data to historians. how-to-history.com/2025/12/31/f...
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A surprise gift at the end of 2025: This review from @jayhancock.bsky.social in @wirobooks.bsky.social. Thank you! 📚💙 #booksky, #animals, #dogs
Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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December 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A surprise gift at the end of 2025: This review from @jayhancock.bsky.social in @wirobooks.bsky.social. Thank you! 📚💙 #booksky, #animals, #dogs
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September 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I want to know what @robin-f.bsky.social thinks about this! Seems sketchy -- certainly the Cambridge PR headline "Britain's economy boomed..." archaeology.org/news/2025/09...
News - Britain's Economy Remained Surprisingly Robust After Roman Collapse - Archaeology Magazine
ALDBOROUGH, ENGLAND—When the Romans conquered Britain in the first century a.d., they transformed the island […]
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September 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I want to know what @robin-f.bsky.social thinks about this! Seems sketchy -- certainly the Cambridge PR headline "Britain's economy boomed..." archaeology.org/news/2025/09...
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If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
Ben Affleck visits Butser Ancient Farm (Archive Clip)
YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm
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September 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
Britain is crosshatched with lyke ways -- paths for transporting the newly dead toward burial & eternity. Famous, hikeable ones in Dartmoor and York Moors. @annacusack.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social tell all about them. howtohistory.substack.com/p/corpse-roads
Corpse Roads
Britain
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September 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Britain is crosshatched with lyke ways -- paths for transporting the newly dead toward burial & eternity. Famous, hikeable ones in Dartmoor and York Moors. @annacusack.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social tell all about them. howtohistory.substack.com/p/corpse-roads
My piece in the @wirobooks.bsky.social. The new oral culture and the end of reading & writing.(!) www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/its...
It’s the End of the Word as We Know It | Washington Independent Review of Books
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August 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My piece in the @wirobooks.bsky.social. The new oral culture and the end of reading & writing.(!) www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/its...
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Newsmax to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting over 2020 election coverage
By @maddylauria.bsky.social
for NPR News
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By @maddylauria.bsky.social
for NPR News
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Maddy Lauria (@maddylauria.bsky.social)
Freelance journalist based in Delaware covering courts, climate change and most everything in between. Lots of #limuluslove here. Check out my work at maddylauria.com.
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August 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Newsmax to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting over 2020 election coverage
By @maddylauria.bsky.social
for NPR News
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By @maddylauria.bsky.social
for NPR News
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Build your own newspaper/ magazine! Escape email newsletter hell! RSS has been a primary news source for me every day for 15 years. Now it's making a comeback & @molly.wiki tells you how to do it. Yay! www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
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July 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Build your own newspaper/ magazine! Escape email newsletter hell! RSS has been a primary news source for me every day for 15 years. Now it's making a comeback & @molly.wiki tells you how to do it. Yay! www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Like @lucyanne.bsky.social I am posting my ancestors' smallpox vaccination credentials. Why aren't the rest of you?
July 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Like @lucyanne.bsky.social I am posting my ancestors' smallpox vaccination credentials. Why aren't the rest of you?
One hundred years ago today my great-grandparents, Irene & Eb, got vaccinated, helping to wipe smallpox from the planet. Thank you for your service!
July 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
One hundred years ago today my great-grandparents, Irene & Eb, got vaccinated, helping to wipe smallpox from the planet. Thank you for your service!
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We want to thank reviewer #2 for the very constructive comments. We were able to incorporate all of them. The manuscript is now much more clear.
July 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We want to thank reviewer #2 for the very constructive comments. We were able to incorporate all of them. The manuscript is now much more clear.