Historian and Writer
Publications
Monographs
The Transactioneer: Hans Sloane and the Rise of Public Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Under review at Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Articles
'The Science of Money: Isaac Newton's Mastering of the Mint,' Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2022).
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'Scholarship, Skill and Community: Collections and the Creation of "Provincial" Medical Education in Manchester, 1750-1850,' Journal of the History of Collections (2021).
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'James Petiver's "Joynt-stock": Middling Agency in Urban Collecting Networks,' Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 74 (2020).
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'Scientific Administration in the Early Eighteenth Century: Reinterpreting the Royal Society's Repository,' Historical Research, 92 (2019).
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'Exploring Cultures of Collecting in the Early Modern World,' Archives of Natural History, 43 (2016).
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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).
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'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).
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'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).
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Media
'Robert Walpole' blog post, The National Archives (2021).
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'South Sea Bubble' blog post, The National Archives (2021).
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