Age of Invention, by Anton Howes
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One of the most frequently mentioned landmarks in the history of intellectual property is the Statute of Monopolies, passed by the English parliament i…
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“Knowledge is power, France is Bacon”, or so the saying sounds. Who was Francis Bacon? He’s a historical figure we’ve probably all heard of, but few I …
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As regular readers will know, I’ve lately been obsessed with England’s various economic transformations between 1550 and 1650 — the dramatic eightfold …
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This week’s research has been especially diffuse, as I try to tie up a few loose ends for the book I’m writing — largely without success, as having pul…
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The other week I attended an unconference, which had a session on the implications of establishing colonies on other planets. Although this was largely…
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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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