Age of Invention, by Anton Howes
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In researching the relative strengths of English and Dutch merchants, I was surprised to learn just how many other European states also tried to get a …
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Some remarkable things happen to our bodies when we don’t eat fresh food for a long time. From the absence of Vitamin C alone, the waste matter of our …
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“It seems a wonder to the world, that such a small country, not fully so big as two of our best shires, having little natural wealth, victuals, timber …
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You’re reading my newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. This free edition cur…
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I’ve become interested in how some countries’ merchants became especially effective in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries — particularl…
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The question I keep coming back to in my research right now, and in this newsletter too, is why London expanded so extraordinarily over the course of t…
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Was medicine in the past really quite so bad?
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I’ve become engrossed this week by a book written in 1638, by the merchant Lewes Roberts — The Marchant’s Mappe of Commerce. It is, in effect, a guide …
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It’s been another productive week of book-writing for me, largely incorporating many of the last few posts I’ve been sharing with you on the history of…
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Something significant happened to the English countryside in the century before 1650. Although England’s population merely recovered to its pre-Black D…
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As I set out last week, I’ve been investigating the sources of Britain’s extraordinary ability to feed its own structural transformation. From a predom…
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Whatever happened to “the Agricultural Revolution” of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain? In recent years I’ve hardly seen the term used at all…
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