FORTUITOUS HAPPENSTANCE: Serendipity in Archival Research
In 1754, Horace Walpole coined the term “serendipity”—a combination of “accidents and sagacity” that leads to great discoveries one never anticipated. I like tracing “serendipity” to the eighteenth century, since much of my work is grounded in that period. My investigations of revolutionary Scottish...
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