Could country house museums be indispensable sites for learning about both science as well as his... more Could country house museums be indispensable sites for learning about both science as well as history? Given current logistical constraints, would it be worthwhile for school teachers to arrange student visits to such places to learn about STEM subjects? At first sight such bastions of British heritage do not appear to offer much such audiences. However, recent research shows that some country houses were once key sites of technological innovation e.g. in the Victorian invention of electric lighting. Our collaborative work with staff at Cragside, Lotherton Hall and Standen demonstrates their capacity and enthusiasm to use such insights to present more STEM-related content to visitors within the context of their existing historical offers. Drawing on the results of an AHRC-funded impact and engagement project, we show how co-produced stories of household electrification can supply fresh inter-disciplinary ways of engaging STEM audiences with the historic country house.
Futurist writing about technology emerged in the late 19th century at the same time as new kinds ... more Futurist writing about technology emerged in the late 19th century at the same time as new kinds of electrical technology were making utopian futures seem practically attainable. Electrical writers and novelists alike thus borrowed from the popular "science" fiction of Jules Verne, Edward Bellamy and others to try to create self-fulfilling prophecies of a future in which electrical gadgets and machines met all major practical needs of civilization. To the extent that many parts of our world are populated by the hardware that they forecast, they succeeded in their goal.
Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 2010
... I am especially grateful to Soraya Boudiya, Matthias Dörries Patricia Fara, Sophie Forgan, an... more ... I am especially grateful to Soraya Boudiya, Matthias Dörries Patricia Fara, Sophie Forgan, and Vivien Hamilton for their constructive comments and to Chris Baxfield and BerrisCharnley for their editorial assistance. Received November 2009. ...
Nervous Conditions contributes to a certain tendency in the cultural history of medicine that exp... more Nervous Conditions contributes to a certain tendency in the cultural history of medicine that explores the role of the body in the life of the mind, especially as it has been lived by men of science and letters. Ever since Bruce Haley's seminal work, The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture ( ...
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2004
... Page 3. In the thirty-three chapters of The modern physical and mathematical sciences, editor... more ... Page 3. In the thirty-three chapters of The modern physical and mathematical sciences, editor Mary Jo Nye attains a thematic cogency comparable in intention to that of Krige and Pestre's volume. ... can be found in the scholarship of Jonathan Topham (2000). ...
... Council for Science and Society in London from 1973 to 1976, but Maurice Crosland and ... and... more ... Council for Science and Society in London from 1973 to 1976, but Maurice Crosland and ... and Juha Saatsi (University of Manchester), have joined him in co-editing The structural ... of the University of Sheffield, with two other postdoctoral researchers, Gowan Dawson (19992002 ...
Could country house museums be indispensable sites for learning about both science as well as his... more Could country house museums be indispensable sites for learning about both science as well as history? Given current logistical constraints, would it be worthwhile for school teachers to arrange student visits to such places to learn about STEM subjects? At first sight such bastions of British heritage do not appear to offer much such audiences. However, recent research shows that some country houses were once key sites of technological innovation e.g. in the Victorian invention of electric lighting. Our collaborative work with staff at Cragside, Lotherton Hall and Standen demonstrates their capacity and enthusiasm to use such insights to present more STEM-related content to visitors within the context of their existing historical offers. Drawing on the results of an AHRC-funded impact and engagement project, we show how co-produced stories of household electrification can supply fresh inter-disciplinary ways of engaging STEM audiences with the historic country house.
Futurist writing about technology emerged in the late 19th century at the same time as new kinds ... more Futurist writing about technology emerged in the late 19th century at the same time as new kinds of electrical technology were making utopian futures seem practically attainable. Electrical writers and novelists alike thus borrowed from the popular "science" fiction of Jules Verne, Edward Bellamy and others to try to create self-fulfilling prophecies of a future in which electrical gadgets and machines met all major practical needs of civilization. To the extent that many parts of our world are populated by the hardware that they forecast, they succeeded in their goal.
Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 2010
... I am especially grateful to Soraya Boudiya, Matthias Dörries Patricia Fara, Sophie Forgan, an... more ... I am especially grateful to Soraya Boudiya, Matthias Dörries Patricia Fara, Sophie Forgan, and Vivien Hamilton for their constructive comments and to Chris Baxfield and BerrisCharnley for their editorial assistance. Received November 2009. ...
Nervous Conditions contributes to a certain tendency in the cultural history of medicine that exp... more Nervous Conditions contributes to a certain tendency in the cultural history of medicine that explores the role of the body in the life of the mind, especially as it has been lived by men of science and letters. Ever since Bruce Haley's seminal work, The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture ( ...
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2004
... Page 3. In the thirty-three chapters of The modern physical and mathematical sciences, editor... more ... Page 3. In the thirty-three chapters of The modern physical and mathematical sciences, editor Mary Jo Nye attains a thematic cogency comparable in intention to that of Krige and Pestre's volume. ... can be found in the scholarship of Jonathan Topham (2000). ...
... Council for Science and Society in London from 1973 to 1976, but Maurice Crosland and ... and... more ... Council for Science and Society in London from 1973 to 1976, but Maurice Crosland and ... and Juha Saatsi (University of Manchester), have joined him in co-editing The structural ... of the University of Sheffield, with two other postdoctoral researchers, Gowan Dawson (19992002 ...
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