Published or forthcoming Articles & Papers
Publication date - 2024/25
Book chapter (Forthcoming): Kola Nut entry in A Brief History of Stuff - published by the Science Museum Group
The Science Museum Group is publishing an edited popular book called A Brief History of Stuff which is due to be released soon in coming years. Based on my research as the London Science Museum's Research Curator, I contributed an entry to the book on the global history of the kola nut, an inconspicuous fruit found growing across Western African tropical forests which has historically held a myriad of indigenous and colonial functions.
Publication date - 2024/25
Article Publication (forthcoming): Classification, Observational Practice, and Henry Seebohm's The Birds of the Japanese Empire in Late-Victorian Britain
This is the publication found in my 'Other Research Project' page for the Anglo-Japanese Visions of Science transnational project. This article will be published in Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London.
November - 2021
Review of Peter Harrison & Jon Roberts' Science Without God? Rethinking the History of Scientific Naturalism (2019)
I reviewed the book Science Without God (2019) for the Science and Christian Belief Journal - Volume 33 (Issue 2)
2021
Article Publication: Scientific Uniformity or "Natural" Divine Action: Shifting The Boundaries of Law in the Nineteenth Century
This article is part of a special issue for the Zygon journal featuring six other scholars. In this special issue we aim to address a gap in the scholarly literature, namely the rise of German criticism and its relation to the sciences. My own article focuses on a group that I call the 'Neo-Newtonians' who responded to the problem of miracles amidst the rise of German Biblical criticism.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zygo.12678
2021
Article Publication: ' A Victorian hope for aerial navigation: Argyll as a theorist of flight and the first president of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain.
This paper is on the establishment of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (1866), with a focus on the first president, the 8th Duke of Argyll, and his ornithological work to uncover the connection between bird flight and aerial navigation.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160932721000089
April 2020
Review of Matthew Stanley's Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science (2015)
I reviewed this book for the April issue of the Science and Christian Belief Journal - Volume 32 (Issue 1)
March 2020
INSBS article - Uniformity, biblical criticism, and supernatural activity in the 19th century
I wrote this short piece on the history of miracles for the International Network studying Science and Belief in Society.
https://scienceandbeliefinsociety.org/2020/03/24/uniformity-biblical-criticism-and-supernatural-activity-in-the-19th-century/
2018
Winner of Christians in Science Student Essay Competition
I was the winner of the 2018 CiS student Essay competition, where the prize was £500 plus my essay published. The topic was, Which historical aspect of the relationship [between science and religion] do you think as been the most significant?:
November 2019
Review of B. Billingsley and M. Nassaji, Exploring Secondary School Students' Stances on the Predictive and Explanatory Power of Science. (Science & Education)
This is a review that I wrote on research in secondary school science and religious education undertaken by Professor B. Billingsley and M. Nassaji in 2019:
Publication date - October 2023
Science Museum Group Blog Post: Black History Month blog post - self-led trail across Science Museum galleries
For Black History Month 2023 I contributed to a new Science Museum Group blog post which is a self-led trail across the galleries of the Science Museum. The purpose of this self-led trail is to highlight the hidden/marginalised narratives of black individuals and communities in the history of science, technology, and medicine using objects and displays across the London Science Museum.