The Historian 167: Science
The magazine of the Historical Association
Contents
4 Ask The Historian
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Social Darwinism: the myth and its reinvention – Geoffrey M. Hodgson (Read article)
10 White heat or hot air? The politics of science in 1960s Britain – Steve Illingworth (Read article)
14 More than skin deep: unmasking the history of cold cream – Farhana Qayoom Shaikh (Read article)
18 Opinion: Echoes of economic nationalism: the populist politics of Joseph Chamberlain and Donald Trump – Chris Godden (Read article)
22 Edgar Ætheling: what happened to the boy who never became king? – Jamie Page (Read article)
26 Shadow states and armed struggle: crafting the Freedom Movements after 1947 on the borders of India, East Pakistan/Bangladesh and Burma/Myanmar – Luke Rimmo Lego, Abigail Tamang and Sneha Singh with Laishram Bullion and Chinglai Ngamba Moirangthem (Read article)
31 Tunnel visions: London’s wartime shelters – Ronan Thomas (Read article)
36 Out and About: The historical significance of the Botanic Garden in Oxford – Mia Andreasen (Read article)
40 Real Lives: King Charles and the 152-year-old husbandman: the long life of Old Tom Parr – Dexter Plato (Read article)
44 Doing history: Disparate measures: reconstructing the life of physician, psychiatrist and anthropologist James Cowles Prichard – Margaret Crump (Read article)
48 Update: The Princes in the Tower – Tim Thornton (Read article)
52 In conversation with Elizabeth King – Carolin Gluchowski and Elizabeth King (Read article)
56 Reviews
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