Anton Howes

Apr 9, 2024 | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Henry Cooke |Anton Howes

TL;DR: Six substacks that stood out to me in the last day:Explaining is winning for journalists wanting to regain trust, writes is his excellent substack. from highlights Aotearoa-NZ’s greenwashing problem in this weekly substack. writes about salt via his substack titled: The Second Soul, Part I reviews a whole bunch of electric cars via her substack post titled: Molly's EV Buying Guide, Part 2 covers the debate about MPs’ imminent pay decision after five frozen years.

Mar 19, 2024 | experimental-history.com | Adam Mastroianni |Anton Howes

There’s an exquisite, painful joy in discovering someone who believes everything that you believe, except for one very important thing. Imagine two Christians meeting each other and finding that they share all the same dogma—God sent his only son to die for our sins, etc., except one of them thinks God’s only son was a guy named Jesus who lived in first-century Palestine, and the other one thinks God’s only son was a guy named Gary who lived in 1970s Poughkipsee.

Mar 7, 2024 | ageofinvention.xyz | Anton Howes

You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation, which goes out to 28,000 people. This is the first instalment of this year’s special series on unsung materials. To stay tuned, subscribe here:Here’s a riddle. There was a product in the seventeenth century that was universally considered a necessity as important as grain and fuel.

Mar 7, 2024 | open.substack.com | Anton Howes

You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation, which goes out to 28,000 people. This is the first instalment of this year’s special series on unsung materials. To stay tuned, subscribe here:Here’s a riddle. There was a product in the seventeenth century that was universally considered a necessity as important as grain and fuel.

Jan 18, 2024 | ageofinvention.xyz | Anton Howes

One of my big goals for this year, as part of finally finishing my book on the causes of the Industrial Revolution, has been to get a handle on a bunch of industries of the period — ones that experienced dramatic changes especially in the period 1550-1650, but which are almost totally ignored, as well as industries where most people have a general sense of the highlights, but where actually there was a whole lot more development that’s been almost entirely neglected or forgotten.