Dr Anton Howes, Fellow

Anton Howes is a historian of innovation. He is the head of innovation research at The Entrepreneurs Network.

He is currently writing a book on why innovation accelerated in the eighteenth century in Britain, which in turn led to the Industrial Revolution. He is also historian-in-residence at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce

His first book was Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation is out now from Princeton University Press. He received a PhD in Political Economy from King's College London in 2016, studying the British Industrial Revolution’s implications for explaining the sources of modern economic growth.

He co-wrote ‘School Vouchers for England’, a joint publication between the ASI and the Centre for Market Reform of Education, at which he was a Research Consultant.

Anton holds a BA in War Studies and History from King’s College London, and tweets at @antonhowes.