Dr Richard Noakes
Publications
Books
with G Cantor, G Dawson, S Shuttleworth, J Topham, Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
with L Henson, G Cantor, G Dawson, S Shuttleworth, J Topham, Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004.
with K Knox, From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Chapters
The Sciences of Spiritualism in Victorian Britain: Possibilities and Problems, in The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth Century Spiritualism and the Occult, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011
Foreword, in Gagen W (eds) Nerve Centre of Empire: Connecting Cornwall: Expanding Frontiers 1870-1918, Porthcurno Telegraph Museum: Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, 2010, 3-4
Science and Technology: Taming Electricity, Connecting the World, in Gagen W,Dawson D (eds) Nerve Centre of Empire: Connecting Cornwall, Expanding Frontiers 1870-1918, Porthcurno: Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, 2010, 14-17
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, in Brake L,Demoor M (eds) A Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, London: British Library, 2009, 508-508
The Spiritualist Press, in Brake L,Demoor M (eds) A Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, London: British Library, 2009, 591-591
Entries on ‘William Fletcher Barrett’, ‘William Crookes’, ‘William Henry Harrison’, ‘Balfour Stewart’, and ‘Cromwell Fleetwood Varley’, in Lightman B (eds) Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, 4 vols,, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004
Representing ‘The Century of Inventions’: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Victorian Punch, in Henson L,Cantor G,Dawson G,Noakes R,Shuttleworth S,Topham J (eds) Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, 151-163
with G Cantor, G Dawson, S Shuttleworth, J Topham, Introduction, in Henson L,Cantor G,Dawson G,Noakes R,Shuttleworth S,Topham J (eds) Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, xvii-xxv
with G Dawson, J Topham, ntroduction', in Cantor G,Dawson G,Gooday G,Noakes R,Shuttleworth S,Topham J (eds) Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 1-33
'Natural Causes? Spiritualism, Science, and the Supernatural in Mid-Victorian Britain', in Bown N,Burdett C,Thurschwell P (eds) The Victorian Supernatural, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 23-43
Punch and Mid-Victorian Comic Journalism, in Cantor G,Dawson G,Gooday G,Noakes R,Shuttleworth S,Topham J (eds) Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 91-122
The Boy’s Own Paper and Late-Victorian Juvenile Periodicals, in Cantor G,Dawson G,Gooday G,Noakes R,Shuttleworth S,Topham J (eds) Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 151-171
with K Knox, 'Mind Almost Divine', in Knox K,Noakes R (eds) From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University’s Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 1-44
Instruments to Lay Hold of Spirits’: Technologising the Bodies of Victorian Spiritualism, in Morus IR (eds) Bodies/Machines, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2002, 125-163
'Entries on ‘Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research’ and ‘The Spiritualist Press’', in Brake L,Demoor M (eds) The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, London: The British Library
Articles
The Historiography of Psychical Research: Lessons from Histories of the Sciences, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. 72, no. 2, 2008, 65-85
The ‘world of the infinitely little’: connecting physical and psychical realities circa 1900, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 39, no. 3, 2008, 323-333
'Cromwell Varley FRS, Electrical Discharge and Victorian Spiritualism', Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 61, 2005, 5-22
Ethers, Religion and Politics in Late-Victorian Physics: Beyond the Wynne Thesis, History of Science, vol. 43, 2005, 415-455
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 59, 2005, 317-318
''The Bridge which is Between Physical and Psychical Research’: William Fletcher Barrett, Sensitive Flames and Spiritualism, History of Science, vol. 42, 2004, 419-464
'Science in Mid-Victorian Punch', Endeavour, vol. 26, 2002, 92-96
with G Dawson, S Shuttleworth, 'Women, Science, and Culture: Science and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical', Woman: A Cultural Review, 2001, 57-70
Industrial Research and the Eastern Telegraph Company, 1872-1929, British Journal for the History of Science
Book Reviews
Frankenstein's children: Electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London, VICTORIAN STUD, vol. 43, no. 2, 2001, 330-333
Reviews
The English Mechanic and World of Science. Vols. 1–124 on 14 DVDs. Waltham Abbey: E. S. Hutton, 2006. ISBN 1-905383-00-2. Single disks £22.00 (individual), £50.00 (institutional); complete set £308.00 (individual), £650.00 (institutional), British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 42, no. 2, 2009, 310-312
Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences, Chicago University Press, Chicago (2007) xi + 545 pages, US$45 cloth., Journal of Historical Geography, no. 1, 2009
William H. Brock. William Crookes (1832– 1919) and the Commercialization of Science. (Science, Technology, and Culture, 1700–1945.) xxvii, 556 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Burlington,Vt.: Ashgate, 2008. $124.95 (cloth)., Isis, vol. 100, no. 3, 2009
Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science, Victorian Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, 2008, 168-170
Telegraphy is an occult art: Cromwell Fleetwood Varley and the diffusion of electricity to the other world, BRIT J HIST SCI, vol. 32, no. 115, 1999, 421-459
Internet publications
with G Cantor, G Dawson, S Shuttleworth, J Topham, Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical, v. 1.0,
