If you’re driving, and have just hit a pothole, then don’t worry – they were also a problem 300 years ago, according to the Times. It highlights research by British and American academics who have mapped the journeys taken by more than 100 diarists from the mid-1600s through to 1820. The writers described the roads back then as “execrable, vile and detestable”.
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