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Emily Dawson, “Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning: The Experiences of Minoritised Groups” (Routledge, 2019)
Emily Dawson
Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning
The Experiences of Minoritised Groups
Routledge, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network April 18, 2019 Dave O'Brien

Who is excluded from science? What is the role of museums in this exclusion? In Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning: The Experiences of Minoritised Groups (Routledge, 2019), Dr Emily Dawson, an Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London, introduces the idea of everyday... Read More
Richard Hingley, “Londinium: A Biography” (Routledge, 2018)
Richard Hingley
Londinium
A Biography
Routledge, 2018

New Books in ArchaeologyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Italian StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society April 18, 2019 Mark Klobas

From its humble beginnings as a crossing point over the river Thames Londinium grew into the largest city in Roman Britain. In Londinium: A Biography (Routledge, 2018), Richard Hingley draws upon the latest archaeological discoveries to provide a look at the growth and development of London over the first centuries... Read More
Naomi Pullin, “Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1750” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Naomi Pullin
Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1750

Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network April 17, 2019 Crawford Gribben

Naomi Pullin, who is Assistant Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Warwick, UK, has just published an outstanding account of Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Appearing in the prestigious series, Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, the book... Read More
Jeremy Black, “Charting the Past: The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England” (Indiana UP, 2018)
Jeremy Black
Charting the Past
The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England
Indiana University Press, 2018

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 11, 2019 Charles Coutinho

Eighteenth-century England was a place of both the enlightenment and progress: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, philosophy, religion, and the arts. But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of its past, both its immediate past and its far distant past.... Read More
Elena Schneider, “The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World” (UNC Press, 2018)
Elena Schneider
The Occupation of Havana
War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World
University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 2, 2019 Alejandra Bronfman

Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial officials, and military officers. In her stunning revision, The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Elena Schneider restores the... Read More