Age of Invention: More the Merrier

Today I’m making good on a promise. A few months ago I said that I would start practising what I preach, and “begin to upload to somewhere freely accessible the transcripts and notes that I use or cite in the work that I publish”. Well, today I begin, kicking off with my transcripts and notes from the travel diaries of Samuel More — secretary for almost thirty years to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, widely considered by his contemporaries to have been one o...