Age of Invention, by Anton Howes
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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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Commons Misconceptions
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As regular readers will know, my main thesis about the causes of Britain’s acceleration of innovation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is th…
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This is the second edition of Golden Age of Invention, the new fortnightly series of the newsletter for patrons of my work. If you missed the last one,…
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Why, before the eighteenth century, were there no Arabic-character printing presses in the Ottoman Empire?
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Welcome to the very first edition of Age of Invention specifically for you, the people who support my research. Thank you. It seemed both fitting and f…
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 I’ve become interested in the question of when, and why, some countries don’t adopt the technologies of their near-neighbours — especially when they h…
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One of the things I’ve been looking into lately is the maritime technology of the late sixteenth century. This is because I think it’s a crucial piece …
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