Dr Bill Jenkins

Lecturer in Nineteeth-Century British History

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2885

Email

whwj@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Selected publications

• Open access

  The ‘Stronsay Beast’: testimony, evidence and authority in early nineteenth-century natural history

  Jenkins, B., 2 Aug 2023, In: Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. 77, 3, p. 471-494 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Theories of universal degeneration in post-Enlightenment Scotland

  Jenkins, B., 21 May 2023, Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish intellectual life, 1790-1914. Fyfe, A. & Kidd, C. C. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 137-150 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access

  David Brewster at the Royal Society of Edinburgh: science, politics and patronage in Scotland, 1808–37

  Jenkins, B., 1 Apr 2022, In: Scottish Historical Review. 101, 1, p. 20-45 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The mind's magic lantern: David Brewster and the scientific imagination

  Jenkins, B., 2021, In: History of European Ideas. 47, 7, p. 1094-1108

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Broadie and Smith (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment, second edition

  Jenkins, B., 1 Apr 2020, In: Scottish Historical Review. 99, 1, p. 157-158

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Open access

  Commercial scientific journals and their editors in Edinburgh, 1819-1832

  Jenkins, B., 5 May 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Centaurus. Early View, 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Physiology of the haunted mind: naturalistic theories of apparitions in early nineteenth-century Scotland

  Jenkins, B., 6 Nov 2020, In: Journal of the History of Ideas. 81, 4, p. 577-597 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Race before Darwin: variation, adaptation and the natural history of man in post-Enlightenment Edinburgh, 1790–1835

  Jenkins, B., 29 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The British Journal for the History of Science. First View, 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Evolution before Darwin: Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804-1834

  Jenkins, B., 1 Oct 2019, Edinburgh University Press. 222 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science: by Ruth Barton, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2018, xii + 604 pp., £41.50 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-22655-161-6

  Jenkins, B., 3 Jul 2019, In: Intellectual History Review. 29, 3, p. 537-539

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

 

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