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Dr Richard NoakesContact details: Email: R.J.Noakes@exeter.ac.uk Telephone: 01326 253759 Room A139 Lecturer My research centres on the history of the sciences in the period c. 1750-1920, the relationship between the sciences and occult, and the links between science and technology since the early modern period. I have also worked on the ways in which the Victorian mass media engaged with scientific, medical and technological issues and on the social and cultural history of mathematical physics. I am also interested in the broader question of how geography matters to the practices and claims of the sciences and the impact of scientific and technological innovation on communication. I am currently writing a monograph on late-Victorian physical and psychical sciences and I am the Principal Investigator for 'Connecting Cornwall: Telecommunications, Locality and Work in West Cornwall, 1870-1918', an AHRC-funded research project run by the University of Exeter and the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum. Biography I was born in Lewisham, South East London, and was educated in neighbouring Forest Hill. In 1989, after a secondary education in Eltham Green and Crown Woods comprehensive schools, I was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, from which I graduated with a first-class B.A. (Hons.) in History and Philosophy of Science (1992) and a PhD in (1998). My doctoral dissertation, supervised by Professor Simon Schaffer, examined the intimate relationship between science, technology and spiritualism in Victorian Britain. In 1999 I was appointed Postdoctoral Research Fellow on 'Science in the Nineteenth Century Project', a major AHRC and Leverhulme Trust-funded project that was both interdisciplinary (History of Science and English Literature) and inter-institutional (the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield). In 2002 I was awarded the prestigious 5-year British Academy-Royal Society Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the History of Science and in August 2007 I took up my present position as Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus. Research Supervision The history of science is one of the major growth areas of historical research and teaching. Drawing on the insights of anthropological, geographical, literary, philosophical and sociological studies of science, it is a highly interdisciplinary and exciting branch of history which has changed considerably since the post-war period when it focussed almost exclusively on the progress of ideas about nature and cosmos. As an enterprise that now explores the material, political, social, cultural, technical, and other resources that are necessary for making scientific knowledge and scientific authority, scholars from the full range of humanities and social science disciplines have much to bring to the history of science. The University of Exeter is a particularly good environment for doing exciting new work in the history of science. The Streatham campus has no fewer than three world-class research centres closely allied to the discipline - the Centre for Medical History, Centre for the Study of Esotericism, and the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society – and the Cornwall campus boasts precisely the interdisciplinary environment in which the subject flourishes. There are major research resources on or near the campuses, including those at Exeter University's Special Collections, the Cornwall Record Office, and the Telegraph Museum at Porthcurno, while the major archives and libraries of London and other UK institution are accessible by reliable train routes. I have supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students (see below) on a range of research topics connected with science and technology in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain, and I am especially keen to supervise students in the following broad areas:
Research students/theses recently supervised Sarah Dry, 'Chapter of Accidents: Science, Safety and Government in Mid-Victorian Britain' Katrina Dean, ‘Settler Physics: Place, Identity and Public in Australia and Cambridge c. 1850-1950" Research interests My research centres on the history of the sciences in the period c. 1750-1920, the relationship between the sciences and occult, and the links between science and technology. I have also worked on the ways in which the Victorian mass media engaged with scientific, medical and technological issues and on the social and cultural history of mathematical physics. I am currently writing a monograph on physical and psychical sciences in Victorian and Edwardian Britain and putting together a collaborative research project on telecommunications, electrification, globalisation and SW Britain. Publications Books with Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jonathan Topham, editor of, Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. with Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan Topham, Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. with Kevin Knox, editor of, From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Articles 'The 'World of the Infinitely Little': Connecting Physical and Psychical Realities in Britain c.1900', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 39, 2008, pp. 323-334. [Download via ScienceDirect here] 'The Historiography of Psychical Research: Lessons from Histories of the Sciences', Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 72, 2008, pp. 65-85. [Download here] 'Cromwell Varley FRS, Electrical Discharge and Victorian Spiritualism', Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 61, 2007, pp. 5-22. [Download here] 'Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index', Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 59, 2005, pp. 317– 18. [Download here] 'Ethers, Religion and Politics in Late-Victorian Physics: Beyond the Wynne Thesis', History of Science, 43, 2005, pp. 415-455. [Download here] ''The Bridge which is Between Physical and Psychical Research': William Fletcher Barrett, Sensitive Flames and Spiritualism', History of Science, 42, 2004, pp. 419-464. [Download here] 'Science in Mid-Victorian Punch', Endeavour, 26, 2002, pp. 92-96. [Download via EBSCO here] with Gowan Dawson and Sally Shuttleworth, 'Women, Science, and Culture: Science and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical', Woman: A Cultural Review, 12, 2001, pp. 57-70. [Download via EBSCO here] 'Telegraphy is an Occult Art: Cromwell Fleetwood Varley and the Diffusion of Electricity to the Other World', British Journal for the History of Science, 32, 1999, pp. 421-459. [Download via JSTOR here] Chapters in Books 'Entries on ‘Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research’ and ‘The Spiritualist Press’', in Laurel Brake and Maryssa Demoor (eds), The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, London: The British Library, forthcoming. with Gowan Dawson and Jonathan Topham, 'Introduction', in Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, & Jonathan Topham (eds), Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 1-33. 'The Boy’s Own Paper and Late-Victorian Juvenile Periodicals', in Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, & Jonathan Topham (eds), Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 151-171. 'Entries on ‘William Fletcher Barrett’, ‘William Crookes’, ‘William Henry Harrison’, ‘Balfour Stewart’, and ‘Cromwell Fleetwood Varley’', in Bernard Lightman (ed), Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, 4 vols, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004. with Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan Topham, 'Introduction', in Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, & Jonathan Topham (eds), Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp. xvii-xxv. 'Representing ‘The Century of Inventions’: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Victorian Punch', in Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, & Jonathan Topham (eds), Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 151-163. 'Natural Causes? Spiritualism, Science, and the Supernatural in Mid-Victorian Britain', in Nicola Bown, Carolyn Burdett, and Pamela Thurschwell (eds), The Victorian Supernatural, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 23-43. 'Punch and Mid-Victorian Comic Journalism', in Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, & Jonathan Topham (eds), Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 91-122. with Kevin Knox, 'Mind Almost Divine', in Kevin Knox and Richard Noakes (eds), From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University’s Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 1-44. '‘Instruments to Lay Hold of Spirits’: Technologising the Bodies of Victorian Spiritualism', in Iwan Rhys Morus (ed), Bodies/Machines, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2002, pp. 125-163. 'Entries on ‘Aether’ and ‘Spiritualism’', in Arne Hessenbruch (ed), The Readers’ Guide to the History of Science, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000. '250 entries on nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists, engineers, and medical practitioners', in Juliet Gardiner (ed), The History Today Who’s Who in 2,000 Years of British History, London: Collins and Brown, 2000. 'Entry on ‘Agnes Elisabeth Guppy’', in (ed), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, http://www.oxforddnb.com Eletronic Databases with Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Sally Shuttleworth and Johnathan Topham, Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical, v. 3.0, hriOnline http://www.sciper.org Other Information/Links Editorial Board, Notes and Records of the Royal Society Member, British Society for the History of Science Member, History of Science Society Associate Member, Society for Psychical Research Historical consultant for the Battle for Britain's Soul, Series 2, historical documentary, first broadcast by BBC 2 television, 3-24 October 2005 Principal historical and script consultant for, and contributor to, Science and the Séance, historical documentary, first broadcast by BBC 2 television, 31 August 2005 [See more here] Contributor to The Long Search, a historical documentary, first broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 14 December 2003 Principal historical and script consultant for, and contributor to, Was Anybody There?, historical documentary, first broadcast by BBC 2 television as TV 17, A103, An Introduction to the Humanities, Open University, 29 January 1998
Teaching HIC1505: The Occult in Victorian Britain HIC1205: Science and Society in the West since 1500 HIC3205: Britain and the Telecommunications Revolution: Sources HIC3206: Britain and the Telecommunications Revolution: Context |
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