Anton Howes writes long-form history of innovation, focusing on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution, with multi-part series on topics like salt trade, Scottish scientific achievement, and Tudor labour and trade policy. Readers get deeply researched narratives tracing how ideas, economic institutions and archives shaped technological progress.
Website: https://www.ageofinvention.xyz
Niall Ferguson's Time Machine is a Substack newsletter from historian Niall Ferguson that uses historical analysis to examine current economics, politics, and culture. Issues cover topics such as European protests and debt, American founding principles, election-year risks, and newly unlocked Nixon White House tape transcripts.
A daily history newsletter that retells dramatic events that happened on the same calendar date, with narrative detail drawn from primary and historical sources. Readers get vivid, well-researched accounts of moments like plane crashes, battlefield surrenders, and Cold War crises.
A weekly newsletter by linguist Colin Gorrie exploring the hidden history of English words and writing conventions, with accessible essays on etymology, usage, and how language works. Readers get well-researched explanations of why everyday words and grammar came to be the way they are.
Noema is an online magazine publishing long-form essays on politics, history, science, and society, with issues covering topics like Sudan's conflicts, short-termism in democracies, and coastal erosion. Readers get in-depth, thoughtful analysis and reportage from a variety of contributors.
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