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Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents

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The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales Volume I: The Coroner's Office

The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales: Volume I: The Coroner's Office

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Edited By Helen J. Rutherford
December 29, 2026

This set comprises primary sources on the coroner, the inquest, and the role of the coroner, in (broadly) the nineteenth century. The coroner was (and is in many respects) a peculiarly English and Welsh office. The coroner was a judge who lived and worked in his local community and his actions had...

The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales Volume II: The Coroners

The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales: Volume II: The Coroners

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Edited By Anne B. Rodrick
December 29, 2026

This set comprises primary sources on the coroner, the inquest, and the role of the coroner, in (broadly) the nineteenth century. The coroner was (and is in many respects) a peculiarly English and Welsh office. The coroner was a judge who lived and worked in his local community and his actions had...

The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales Volume III: Causes of Death

The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales: Volume III: Causes of Death

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Edited By Anne B. Rodrick
December 29, 2026

This set comprises primary sources on the coroner, the inquest, and the role of the coroner, in (broadly) the nineteenth century. The coroner was (and is in many respects) a peculiarly English and Welsh office. The coroner was a judge who lived and worked in his local community and his actions had...

The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales

The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Anne B. Rodrick
December 29, 2026

This set comprises primary sources on the coroner, the inquest, and the role of the coroner, in (broadly) the nineteenth century. The coroner was (and is in many respects) a peculiarly English and Welsh office. The coroner was a judge who lived and worked in his local community and his actions had...

Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain Volume I: Medical Education and Anatomical Practice in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume I: Medical Education and Anatomical Practice in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Edited By Laurence Talairach
December 17, 2026

This three-volume set of primary sources on anatomy and dissection will trace the development of the practice of anatomy in Britain from the very beginning of the nineteenth-century. It brings together and contextualizes sources (both full length and abridged) related to the rise of anatomy in ...

Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain Volume II: The Trade of Anatomy

Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume II: The Trade of Anatomy

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Edited By Laurence Talairach
December 17, 2026

This three-volume set of primary sources on anatomy and dissection will trace the development of the practice of anatomy in Britain from the very beginning of the nineteenth-century. It brings together and contextualizes sources (both full length and abridged) related to the rise of anatomy in ...

Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain Volume III: Investigating Death

Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume III: Investigating Death

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Edited By Laurence Talairach
December 17, 2026

This three-volume set of primary sources on anatomy and dissection will trace the development of the practice of anatomy in Britain from the very beginning of the nineteenth-century. It brings together and contextualizes sources (both full length and abridged) related to the rise of anatomy in ...

Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Forthcoming

Edited By Laurence Talairach
December 17, 2026

This three-volume set of primary sources on anatomy and dissection will trace the development of the practice of anatomy in Britain from the very beginning of the nineteenth-century. It brings together and contextualizes sources (both full length and abridged) related to the rise of anatomy in ...

Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837 Volume I: Human Nature

Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume I: Human Nature

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Edited By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026

This volume features some of the most controversial and topical science writing of the period. Investigations of the human body led to vexed debates about the nature and origins of life – materialism vs. spiritualism. Anatomical studies demonstrated humans’ likeness to other mammals; these, ...

Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837 Volume II: The Natural World

Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume II: The Natural World

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Edited By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026

This was the heroic period of plant collection: Europeans now had the means to collect and study flora and fauna from all over the world; they also developed classificatory systems that allowed them to create universal schema for plant reproduction and animal organization. This was also the period...

Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837 Volume III: Forces

Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume III: Forces

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Edited By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026

These areas of enquiry were related in the period: the chemical changes produced by heat were the subject of intense investigation in an effort to provide a comprehensive account of why and how substances combined. Priestley’s isolation of gases was made under the aegis of a phlogiston theory; this...

Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837 Volume IV: Science in Society

Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume IV: Science in Society

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Edited By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026

This volume draws together texts revealing the increased and varied roles that science played in society at large, beyond the laboratory, the learned society and the scientific journal. Women's science writing, sampled here, was often professedly designed to educate a lay - usually female - ...

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