top of page

Publications

Monographs

The Transactioneer: Hans Sloane and the Rise of Public Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Under review at Johns Hopkins University Press.

Articles

'The Science of Money: Isaac Newton's Mastering of the Mint,' Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2022).

'Scholarship, Skill and Community: Collections and the Creation of "Provincial" Medical Education in Manchester, 1750-1850,' Journal of the History of Collections (2021). 

'James Petiver's "Joynt-stock": Middling Agency in Urban Collecting Networks,' Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 74 (2020).

'Scientific Administration in the Early Eighteenth Century: Reinterpreting the Royal Society's Repository,' Historical Research, 92 (2019).

'Exploring Cultures of Collecting in the Early Modern World,' Archives of Natural History, 43 (2016).

Book chapters

'"My collection in all its branches": The Imagined Space of Early Modern Scientific Correspondence,' in Lawrence Stewart and Gordon McOuat (eds.), Spaces of Enlightenment Science (Brill, 2021).

'Medical Practitioners as Collectors and Communicators of Natural History in Ireland, 1680-1750,' in John Cunningham (ed.), Early Modern Ireland and the World of Medicine: Practitioners, Collectors and Contexts (Manchester University Press, 2019). 

'Creating and Keeping a National Treasure: The Changing Uses of Hans Sloane's Collection in the Eighteenth Century,' in Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston (eds.), Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries (Routledge, 2018). 

Media

'Robert Walpole' blog post, The National Archives (2021).

'South Sea Bubble' blog post, The National Archives (2021).

Publications: Text

©2021 by Alice Marples. Proudly created with Wix.com

bottom of page