Books:
- Recreating Newton: Biographies of Newton and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007) [book details]
Reviews: British Society for Literature and Science Online (free access), Isis, Victorian Studies, British Journal for the History of Science, Ambix
- (ed.) Nineteenth-Century Biography of Isaac Newton: Public Debate and Private Controversy, vol. 2 of Rob Iliffe, Milo Keynes and Rebekah Higgitt (eds), Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660-1885 (2 vols, Pickering & Chatto, 2006) [book details]
Reviews: Notes & Records of the Royal Society, Isis, British Journal for the History of Science
Articles and chapters:
- Rebekah Higgitt and James Wilsdon, “The benefits of hindsight: how history can contribute to science policy”, in Robert Doubleday and James Wilsdon (eds), Future Directions for Scientific Advice in Whitehall (Centre for Science & Policy, 2013) [full text]
- ‘The “epitome of intellectual sagacity”: biographical treatments of Newton as a mathematician’, in Benjamin Wardhaugh (ed.), The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2012), 47-72 [book details]
- ‘The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its publics; past and present’, in Luisa Pigatto and Valeria Zanni (eds), Astronomy and its Instruments Before and After Galileo (Cooperativa Libraria Editrice Universita di Padova, 2010), 439-450 [book details]
- ‘The Royal Observatory, Greenwich’, in Clive Ruggles and Michel Cotte (eds), The Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention: A Thematic Study (ICOMOS/IAU, 2010), 195-8 [chapter PDF, online book]
- with Graham Dolan, ‘Greenwich, time and the line’, Endeavour 34 (2010), 35-39 [abstract, link to article £]
- ‘Science and sociability: women as audience at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1831-1901’, Isis 99 (2008), 1-27 [abstract, link to article £]
- with Charles W.J. Withers and Diarmid Finnegan, ‘Historical geographies of provincial science: themes in the setting and reception of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain, 1831-c.1939’, British Journal for the History of Science 41 (2008), 385 – 415 [abstract, link to article £]
- ‘Discriminating days? Partiality and impartiality in nineteenth-century biographies of Newton’, in Thomas Söderqvist (ed.) The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), 155-72 [book details]
- with Charles W.J. Withers and Diarmid Finnegan, ‘Geography’s other histories? Geography and science in the British Association for the Advancement of Knowledge, 1831-c. 1933’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 31 (2006), 433-51 [abstract, link to article £]
- ‘Why I do not FRS my tail: Augustus De Morgan and The Royal Society’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 60 (2006), 253-59 [full text PDF]
- ‘President, patron, friend and lover: Charles Montagu’s significance to the history of science’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 59 (2005), 155-70 [full text PDF]
- ‘Astronomers against Newton? Francis Baily’s Account of the First Astronomer Royal’, Endeavour 28 (2004), 20-24 [abstract, link to article £]
- ‘“Newton dépossédé!” The British response to the Pascal forgeries of 1867’, British Journal for the History of Science 36 (2003), 437-53 [abstract, link to article £]
