Museum Culture in the Victorian Novel
A review of On View: Museum Culture in the Victorian Novel, by Christa M. Tiernan. The relationship between museums, material…
Sport & Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture
A review of Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904, by Shannon Rose Smith. Shannon Smith’s dissertation…
Rethinking “Industrial Revolution” in History of Science
A review of Machine Past, Machine Future: Technology in British Thought, c.1870-1914 , by Daniel C.S. Wilson. Although historians often…
Making of Geology in Late-Georgian England
A review of Practical and Economic Interests in the Making of Geology in late Georgian England, by Leucha Veneer. Practical…
West Riding Lunatic Asylum & Brain Science
A review of The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the Making of the Modern Brain Sciences in the Nineteenth Century,…
Photography & Periodicals, 1870-90
A review of “From a Photograph”: Photography and the Periodical Print Press 1870-90, by Geoffrey Belknap. This dissertation analyzes the…
Freaks in 19th-century British Media & Medicine
A review of Freaks in Late Nineteenth-Century British Media and Medicine, by Fiona Yvette Pettit. Fiona Pettit explores the mainstreaming,…
Milk & Typhoid in Victorian Britain
A review of The Perfect Food and the Filth Disease: Milk, Typhoid Fever, and the Science of State Medicine in…
Anthropometric Photography & Questionnaires
Anthropometric Photography, Questionnaires and the Victorian Age I am often asked by some of my colleagues whether there is any…
Ordinary Pathways to Science in the Victorian Era
A review of Object Lessons: Sensory Science Education, 1830-1870, by Melanie Keene. Historically science popularization was often viewed as a…