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2025

Journal Article

Darwin's scientific gardener: John Scott, the 'physiological test' and the importance of character in Victorian science

Hesketh, Ian (2025). Darwin's scientific gardener: John Scott, the 'physiological test' and the importance of character in Victorian science. British Journal for the History of Science, 1-19. doi: 10.1017/s0007087425000226

Darwin's scientific gardener: John Scott, the 'physiological test' and the importance of character in Victorian science

2024

Journal Article

Review of Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War. By Elena Aronova. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 

Hesketh, Ian (2024). Review of Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War. By Elena Aronova. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. . Journal of Modern History, 96 (3), 695-697. doi: 10.1086/730039

Review of Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War. By Elena Aronova. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 

2024

Journal Article

Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin studies

Hesketh, Ian, Barton, Ruth and Richards, Evelleen (2024). Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin studies. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 103, 69-76. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.11.004

Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin studies

2022

Journal Article

Disciplining the Anthropocene

Hesketh, Ian (2022). Disciplining the Anthropocene. History and Theory, 61 (3), 482-491. doi: 10.1111/hith.12267

Disciplining the Anthropocene

2022

Journal Article

The Psychic Force Serialized: William Crookes and The Quarterly Journal of Science, 1870-1874

Hesketh, Ian (2022). The Psychic Force Serialized: William Crookes and The Quarterly Journal of Science, 1870-1874. Aries, 22 (1), 13-41. doi: 10.1163/15700593-02201002

The Psychic Force Serialized: William Crookes and The Quarterly Journal of Science, 1870-1874

2021

Journal Article

What Big History misses

Hesketh, Ian (2021). What Big History misses. Aeon.

What Big History misses

2021

Journal Article

Joshua Bennett, God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845-1914

Hesketh, Ian (2021). Joshua Bennett, God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845-1914. The American Historical Review, 126 (4), 1685-1686. doi: 10.1093/ahr/rhab626

Joshua Bennett, God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845-1914

2021

Journal Article

Narratives of Charles Darwin down under

Hesketh, Ian (2021). Narratives of Charles Darwin down under. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 88, 303-311. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.06.007

Narratives of Charles Darwin down under

2020

Journal Article

The making of John Tyndall's Darwinian Revolution

Hesketh, Ian (2020). The making of John Tyndall's Darwinian Revolution. Annals of Science, 77 (4), 524-548. doi: 10.1080/00033790.2020.1808243

The making of John Tyndall's Darwinian Revolution

2020

Journal Article

The first Darwinian: Alfred Russel Wallace and the meaning of Darwinism

Hesketh, Ian (2020). The first Darwinian: Alfred Russel Wallace and the meaning of Darwinism. Journal of Victorian Culture, 25 (2), 171-184. doi: 10.1093/jvcult/vcz042

The first Darwinian: Alfred Russel Wallace and the meaning of Darwinism

2019

Journal Article

Technologies of the Scientific Self: John Tyndall and His Journal

Hesketh, Ian (2019). Technologies of the Scientific Self: John Tyndall and His Journal. Isis, 110 (3), 460-482. doi: 10.1086/704672

Technologies of the Scientific Self: John Tyndall and His Journal

2018

Journal Article

A big history of the future: Homo Deus: a brief history of tomorrow

Hesketh, Ian (2018). A big history of the future: Homo Deus: a brief history of tomorrow. Sydney Review of Books

A big history of the future: Homo Deus: a brief history of tomorrow

2018

Journal Article

John Robert Seeley, natural religion, and the Victorian conflict between science and religion

Hesketh, Ian (2018). John Robert Seeley, natural religion, and the Victorian conflict between science and religion. Journal of the History of Ideas, 79 (2), 309-329. doi: 10.1353/jhi.2018.0018

John Robert Seeley, natural religion, and the Victorian conflict between science and religion

2018

Journal Article

Prodding, proofreading, and persistence; or, tales from an Isis proofreader

Hesketh, Ian (2018). Prodding, proofreading, and persistence; or, tales from an Isis proofreader. Newsletter of the History of Science Society, 47 (2), 8-10.

Prodding, proofreading, and persistence; or, tales from an Isis proofreader

2018

Journal Article

Review of: Gillian Beer, Alice in space: the sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll

Hesketh, Ian (2018). Review of: Gillian Beer, Alice in space: the sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll. Isis, 109 (1), 189-191.

Review of: Gillian Beer, Alice in space: the sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll

2017

Journal Article

The evolutionary epic

Hesketh, Ian (2017). The evolutionary epic. Victorian Review, 41 (2), 35-39. doi: 10.1353/vcr.2015.0014

The evolutionary epic

2017

Journal Article

Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us About Evolution

Hesketh, Ian (2017). Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us About Evolution. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us About Evolution

2016

Journal Article

Review of: Sarah C. Alexander, Victorian literature and the physics of the imponderable

Hesketh, Ian (2016). Review of: Sarah C. Alexander, Victorian literature and the physics of the imponderable. Isis, 107 (4), 868-869. doi: 10.1086/689422

Review of: Sarah C. Alexander, Victorian literature and the physics of the imponderable

2016

Journal Article

Introduction: evolution and historical explanation

Harrison, Peter and Hesketh, Ian (2016). Introduction: evolution and historical explanation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 58, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.12.010

Introduction: evolution and historical explanation

2016

Journal Article

Counterfactuals and history: contingency and convergence in histories of science and life

Hesketh, Ian (2016). Counterfactuals and history: contingency and convergence in histories of science and life. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 58, 41-48. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.12.015

Counterfactuals and history: contingency and convergence in histories of science and life