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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, 58 (1), 19-37. doi: 10.1017/s0007087425000226

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

2023

Book

A History of Big History

Hesketh, Ian (2023). A History of Big History. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009036399

A History of Big History

2022

Book

Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Hesketh, Ian ed. (2022). Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Pittsburgh, PA United States: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

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

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

2017

Book

Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, religion, and the cultural significance of anonymity

Hesketh, Ian (2017). Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, religion, and the cultural significance of anonymity. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, religion, and the cultural significance of anonymity

2014

Journal Article

The story of Big History

Hesketh, Ian (2014). The story of Big History. History of the Present, 4 (2), 171-202. doi: 10.5406/historypresent.4.2.0171

The story of Big History

2012

Book

The Oxford history of historical writing vol 3 1400 - 1800

José Rabasa, Masayuki Sato, Edoardo Tortarolo, Daniel Woolf and Ian Hesketh eds. (2012). The Oxford history of historical writing vol 3 1400 - 1800. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

The Oxford history of historical writing vol 3 1400 - 1800

2011

Book

The science of history in Victorian Britain: making the past speak

Hesketh, Ian (2011). The science of history in Victorian Britain: making the past speak. London United Kingdom: Pickering and Chatto.

The science of history in Victorian Britain: making the past speak

2009

Book

Of apes and ancestors : evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford debate

Hesketh, Ian (2009). Of apes and ancestors : evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford debate. Toronoto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Of apes and ancestors : evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford debate

2024

Book Chapter

William Crookes and the Imagined History of Thallium

Hesketh, Ian (2024). William Crookes and the Imagined History of Thallium. Reckoning with History: Essays on the Uses of the Past. (pp. 180-202) edited by K. J. Kesselring and Matthew Neufeld. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queens University Press.

William Crookes and the Imagined History of Thallium

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

Book Chapter

Without a Darwinian clue? Henry Thomas Buckle and the naturalization of history

Hesketh, Ian (2024). Without a Darwinian clue? Henry Thomas Buckle and the naturalization of history. Victorian interdisciplinarity and the sciences: rethinking the specialization thesis. (pp. 81-96) edited by Bernard Lightman and Efram Sera-Shriar. Pittsburgh, PA, United States: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Without a Darwinian clue? Henry Thomas Buckle and the naturalization of history

2024

Other Outputs

Commemorating Darwin: global perspectives on evolutionary science, religion and politics

Barnes, Joel and Hesketh, Ian (2024, 04 16). Commemorating Darwin: global perspectives on evolutionary science, religion and politics International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society

Commemorating Darwin: global perspectives on evolutionary science, religion and politics

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

Book Chapter

Imagining the Darwinian Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

Hesketh, Ian (2022). Imagining the Darwinian Revolution in the Nineteenth Century. Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. (pp. 21-36) edited by Hesketh, Ian. Pittsburgh, PA United States: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Imagining the Darwinian Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

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