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Details for Professor Christine MacLeod
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| Name | Professor Christine MacLeod | ||
| Job title | Emeritus Professor of Historical Studies (History) |
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| Department | Department of History (Historical Studies) University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | B.A.(Oxon.), Ph.D.(Cantab.) | ||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Member of the Blackwell History Compass editorial board and active in the Society for the History of Technology. |
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| Keywords | history of technology history of inventions history of patents changing status of inventors nineteenth-century British culture Heroes of Invention history of design |
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| Areas of expertise | I specialise in the cultural history of technology, in particular the history of inventions and patents in Britain, between the 17th and early 20th centuries, with a comparative interest in France. I recently published a book on the changing status of inventors and its implications for nineteenth-century British culture, the patent system, and the historiography of the Industrial Revolution, Heroes of Invention: technology, liberalism and British national identity 1750-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2007). More generally, I am interested in the Industrial Revolution from a technological and environmental perspective. I teach on an interdisciplinary unit in Sustainable Development. |
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