Affiliated Research Scholars

Anne Secord

Research interests: practices of natural history; history of nineteenth-century popular science, science education, and working-class engagement with science; horticulture, medicine, and consumption in the eighteenth century.

Email address: pas6@cam.ac.uk

Selected publications

• Artisan Naturalists. Under contract to University of Chicago Press (in progress).
• A new Oxford World's Classics edition of Gilbert White, A Natural History of Selborne. Under contract to Oxford University Press (to be completed by 30 September 2012).
• 'Pressed into service: specimens, space, and seeing in botanical practice', in David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers, eds, Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2011, pp. 283–310.
• 'Coming to attention: a commonwealth of observers during the Napoleonic Wars', in Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck, eds, Histories of Scientific Observation. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2011, pp. 421–44.
• '"La connaissance de l'un devient la connaissance de tous": participation des artisans à la botanique anglaise au début du XIXe siècle', in Florian Charvolin, André Micoud and Lynn K. Nyhart, eds, Des Sciences Citoyennes? La question de l'amateur dans les sciences naturalistes (Editions de l'Aube, 2007), pp. 90–107.
• 'Hotbeds and cool fruits: the unnatural cultivation of the eighteenth-century cucumber', in Roberta Bivins and John Pickstone, eds, Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 90–104.
• 'Nature's treasures: Dawson Turner's botanical collections', in Nigel Goodman, ed., Dawson Turner, a Norfolk antiquary and his remarkable family. Chichester: Phillimore, 2007, pp. 43–66.
• 'Elizabeth Gaskell and the artisan naturalists of Manchester', The Gaskell Society Journal, 19 (2005), 34–51.
• '"Be what you would seem to be": Samuel Smiles, Thomas Edward and the making of a working-class scientific hero', Science in Context, 16 (2003), 147–173.
• 'Botany on a plate: pleasure and the power of pictures in promoting early nineteenth-century scientific knowledge', Isis, 93 (2002), 28–57.
• 'Les pubs du Lancashire: La botanique, fierte des artisans', La Recherche, 300th issue, July–August 1997, 58–62.
• 'Artisan Botany', in N. Jardine, J. A. Secord, and E. Spary, eds, Cultures of Natural History, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• 'Corresponding interests: artisans and gentlemen in nineteenth-century natural history', British Journal for the History of Science, 27 (1994), 383–408.
• 'Science in the pub: artisan botanists in early nineteenth-century Lancashire', History of Science, 32 (1994), 269–315.