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Chief Executive of @TotalPolitics Group. Writer, broadcaster and media CEO. Columnist for @theipaper.
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Mark Wallace Verified account @wallaceme
Anton’s recent posts, which use archival research to turn 17th/18th century Swedish industrial spies into spies working for us looking at the past, are great:
Dr Anton Howes Verified account @antonhowes 2d
Very frustrating when a 1710 industrial spy doesn't go where you'd dearly want him to. Göran Vallerius, a Swedish mining expert, headed west from London to see the mines. He gets to the Mendips and is so disappointed that he doesn't bother going to Devon or Cornwall, being told that they're much the same - and so we miss out on a potential eyewitness account by an engineering expert of the very earliest working steam engine prototype! Argh!!!
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