Museum Culture in the Victorian Novel Stephanie Bowry5 minute read A review of On View: Museum Culture in the Victorian Novel, by Christa M. Tiernan. The relationship between museums, material… 0 Shares 0 0
Sport & Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture Matthew L. McDowell6 minute read A review of Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904, by Shannon Rose Smith. Shannon Smith’s dissertation… 0 Shares 0 0
Rethinking “Industrial Revolution” in History of Science Chris Renwick7 minute read A review of Machine Past, Machine Future: Technology in British Thought, c.1870-1914 , by Daniel C.S. Wilson. Although historians often… 0 Shares 0 0
Making of Geology in Late-Georgian England Jennifer Ferng5 minute read A review of Practical and Economic Interests in the Making of Geology in late Georgian England, by Leucha Veneer. Practical… 0 Shares 0 0
West Riding Lunatic Asylum & Brain Science Stephen T. Casper5 minute read A review of The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the Making of the Modern Brain Sciences in the Nineteenth Century,… 0 Shares 0 0
Photography & Periodicals, 1870-90 Casper Andersen6 minute read A review of “From a Photograph”: Photography and the Periodical Print Press 1870-90, by Geoffrey Belknap. This dissertation analyzes the… 0 Shares 0 0
Freaks in 19th-century British Media & Medicine Monika Pietrzak-Franger5 minute read A review of Freaks in Late Nineteenth-Century British Media and Medicine, by Fiona Yvette Pettit. Fiona Pettit explores the mainstreaming,… 0 Shares 0 0
Milk & Typhoid in Victorian Britain Peter Atkins4 minute read A review of The Perfect Food and the Filth Disease: Milk, Typhoid Fever, and the Science of State Medicine in… 0 Shares 0 0
Anthropometric Photography & Questionnaires Efram Sera-Shriar8 minute read Anthropometric Photography, Questionnaires and the Victorian Age I am often asked by some of my colleagues whether there is any… 0 Shares 0 0
Ordinary Pathways to Science in the Victorian Era Michal Meyer5 minute read A review of Object Lessons: Sensory Science Education, 1830-1870, by Melanie Keene. Historically science popularization was often viewed as a… 0 Shares 0 0