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Aileen Fyfe

Professor of Modern History (History, heritage and archaeology; Historical studies)

St Andrews, UK

Publications

  • Philosophical Transactions: 350 years of publishing at the Royal Society (1665--2015)
  • Natural history and the Victorian tourist: from landscapes to rock pools
  • A literate scrutiny of a popular science
  • Journals and Periodicals
  • THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE PREHISTORY OF PEER REVIEW, 1665–1965
  • Self-help for learned journals
  • Uncomfortable departments: British historians of science and the importance of disciplinary communities
  • Steam-powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860
  • Stepping-up the historiography of peripheral popularisation
  • Journals, learned societies and money: Philosophical Transactions, ca. 1750--1900
  • Business and Reading Across the Atlantic: W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840--60
  • THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN TYNDALL
  • The Religious Tract Society
  • How female fellows fared at the Royal Society
  • Editors, referees, and committees
  • Introduction: Editorship and the editing of scientific journals, 1750-1950
  • Special Issue:Editorship and the Editing of Scientific Journals, 1750–1950
  • Then and now – exploring diversity in peer review at the Royal Society
  • Publishing the Philosophical Transactions
  • Philosophical Transactions
  • Peer review: not as old as you think
  • Uncomfortable departments
  • Publish and be poor: journals shouldn't just be about money
  • Business and Reading across the Atlantic
  • Steam-Powered Knowledge
  • Journals, learned societies and money
  • Credit, copyright, and the circulation of scientific knowledge
  • Transparency in Standards and Practices of Peer Review
  • A literate scrutiny of a popular science
  • Untangling academic publishing
  • Darwin's sacred cause: how a hatred of slavery shaped Darwin's views on human evolution. Adrian Desmond, and James Moore
  • Our obsession with scientists on bank notes is wearing thin
  • Stepping-up the historiography of peripheral popularisation
  • Journals and Periodicals
  • Review of "Progressive Enlightenment"
  • Ladies, gentlemen, and scientific publication at the Royal Society, 1945-1990
  • Making public ahead of print
  • Natural history and the Victorian tourist
  • Open Scholarship and the need for collective action
  • What the history of copyright in academic publishing tells us about Open Research
  • The Royal Society and the noncommercial circulation of knowledge
  • What does peer review do?
  • The production, circulation, consumption and ownership of scientific knowledge: historical perspectives
  • Opening up access to research
  • It's not all about the money
  • Quality in peer review
  • Refereeing: the evolution of trust in editorial practices
  • From philanthropy to business: the economics of Royal Society journal publishing in the twentieth century
  • Managing the growth of peer review at the Royal Society journals, 1865-1965
  • Scientific Publications
  • Conversations on chemistry
  • Expertise and Christianity: High standards versus the free market in popular publishing
  • The information revolution
  • Societies as publishers: The Religious Tract Society in the mid-nineteenth century
  • A Short History of the Religious Tract Society
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY-Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800-Andrea Immel and Michael Witmore, editors
  • Darwin and human origins
  • The Book History Reader (review)
  • Steam and the landscape of knowledge
  • JOHN L. HEILBRON (ed.), The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxviii+ 941. ISBN 0-19-511229-6.\pounds 80.00 (hardback).
  • Conscientious workmen or booksellers' hacks? The professional identities of science writers in the mid-nineteenth century
  • Ritual debunking:: Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery by John Waller. Oxford University Press, 2002. UK\pounds 18.99 (xi+ 308 pages) ISBN 0192804049 (issued as Einstein's Luck in the USA at $30.00, ISBN 0198607199)
  • Commerce and Philanthropy: The Religious Tract Society and the Business of Publishing
  • Part of the culture
  • SCIENCE FOR ALL The popularization of science in early twentieth-century Britain
  • Periodicals and Book Series: Complementary Aspects of a Publisher’s Mission
  • Information revolution: William Chambers, the publishing pioneer
  • MARTIN DAUNTON (ed.), The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 424. ISBN 0-19-726326-7.\pounds 55.00 (hardback).
  • Science Writing by Women
  • Science in the marketplace: nineteenth-century sites and experiences
  • Science in the marketplace: an introduction
  • Science and Religion in Popular Publishing in 19th-Century Britain
  • Dissecting Dissent
  • Reading natural history at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum
  • Science for all: the popularization of science in early twentieth-century Britain
  • The Information Revolution
  • Information revolution: William Chambers, the publishing pioneer
  • Science and Religion in Popular Publishing in the Nineteenth Century
  • Conscientious workmen or booksellers' hacks?
  • Victorian publishing: the economics of book production for a mass market, 1836-1916
  • Science in the Marketplace
  • The organisation of knowledge in Victorian Britain
  • Science in the nineteenth-century periodical: Reading the magazine of nature
  • Reading Natural History at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum
  • Periodicals and book series
  • Childhood and children's books in early modern Europe, 1550-1800
  • Culture and science in the nineteenth-century media
  • Expertise and Christianity
  • Tracts, classics and brands: science for children in the Nineteenth Century
  • Dissecting Dissent
  • Steam and the landscape of knowledge
  • Societies as publishers
  • Science
  • A short history of the Religious Tract Society
  • Commerce and philanthropy
  • The book history reader.
  • The Oxford companion to the history of modern science.
  • Science serialized: Representations of the sciences in nineteenth-century periodicals
  • Introduction to Jane Marcet's 'Conversations on Chemistry'
  • Tracts, classics and brands: science for children in the nineteenth centrury
  • Telling stories
  • Reading Children's Books in Late Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Families
  • How the squirrel became a squgg: The long history of a children’s book
  • Victorian publishing
  • DAVID N. LIVINGSTONE, DG HART AND MARK A. NOLL (eds.), Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective. Religion in America. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. vi+ 351. ISBN 0-19-511557-0.\pounds 39˙ 99 (hardback).
  • Science for Children
  • Science Writing by Women (Popular Science in the Nineteenth Century)
  • Thornton and Tully's scientific books, libraries and collectors: Study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the history of science.
  • The reception of William Paley's Natural Theology in the University of Cambridge
  • Copyrights and Competition: Producing and protecting children's books in the nineteenth century
  • Industrialised conversion The Religious Tract Society and popular science publishing in Victorian Britain
  • WILLIAM J. ASTORE, Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. ix+ 303. ISBN 0-7546-0202-8.\pounds 45.00 (hardback).
  • EA DAVIS (ed.), Science in the Making: Scientific Development as Chronicled by Historic Papers in the Philosophical Magazine--with Commentaries and Illustrations, Volume 2: 1850--1900. London: Taylor & Francis, 1997. Pp. xix+ 406, 16 plates. ISBN 0-7484-0642-5.\pounds 59.95.
  • Science and salvation: evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain
  • 15 Young readers and the sciences
  • ANDREW HUNTER (ed.), Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors: A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the History of Science. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xii+ 405. ISBN 0-566-05481-7.\pounds 80.00 (hardback). ALAIN BESSON (ed.), Thornton's Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors: A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the Medical Sciences. Aldershot: Gower, 1990. Pp. xxi+ 417. ISBN 0-566-05481-7.\pounds 65.00 (hardback).
  • Gary B. Ferngren (Editor): The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, Gary B. Ferngren (Editor). The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia. xxii+ 586 pp., index. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 2000. 95,Can 143.
  • Young readers and the sciences
  • Publishing and the classics: Paley's Natural theology and the nineteenth-century scientific canon
  • Science for Children (Popular Science in the Nineteeth Century Series)(v. 1)(Facsimile Ed.)
  • ARNE HESSENBRUCH (ed.), Reader's Guide to the History of Science. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. Pp. xxix+ 934. ISBN 1-884964-29-X.\pounds 95.00 (hardback).
  • How the sqirrel became a squgg: The long history of a children’s book
  • Wonders of the Waters: The Starry Heavens
  • Thornton and Tully's scientific books, libraries and collectors: Study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the history of science.
  • Thomas Milner
  • Evangelicals and science in historical perspective.
  • Copyrights and competition
  • Science in the making: Scientific development as chronicled by historic papers in the Philosophical magazine - with commentaries and illustrations, vol 2: 1850-1900.
  • Observing God: Thomas Dick, evangelicalism, and popular science in Victorian Britain and America.
  • The history of science and religion in the western tradition: An encyclopedia.
  • Science for Children
  • The reception of William Paley's Natural Theology in the University of Cambridge
  • William Martin
  • Reader's guide to the history of science.
  • Reconciling science and religion: The debate in early-twentieth-century Britain
  • Science and Salvation
  • John Aikin
  • Charles Tomlinson
  • Science for young readers
  • Charles Williams
  • Publishing and the classics
  • Reading children's books in late eighteenth-century dissenting families
  • Thornton's medical books, libraries and collectors: A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences.
  • How the squirrel became a squgg
  • Elizabeth Payne
  • A history of scientific journals
  • Do journals need societies, and do societies need journals?
  • 350 years of scientific periodicals
  • Le società scientifiche hanno bisogno delle riviste e viceversa?
  • Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914
  • Beyond the Enlightenment
  • Introduction
  • Chancellors and the Legacies of Empire at St Andrews, 1700-1900
  • From philanthropy to business
  • The geography and politics of the Royal Society’s approach to circulating scientific journals, c.1760-1930

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