Dr Richard Noakes

Lecturer

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My research centres on the history of the sciences in the period c. 1750-1920, the relationship between the sciences and occult, and the links between science and technology since the early modern period. I have also worked on the ways in which the Victorian mass media engaged with scientific, medical and technological issues and on the social and cultural history of mathematical physics. I am also interested in the broader question of how geography matters to the practices and claims of the sciences and the impact of scientific and technological innovation on communication. I am currently writing a monograph on late-Victorian physical and psychical sciences. From 2009-2010 I was Principal Investigator of "Connecting Cornwall: Telecommunications, Work and Locality in West Britain, 1870-1914", an AHRC-funded project run by the University of Exeter in collaboration with the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum.