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Towards a geography of English scientific culture: provincial identity and literary and philosophical culture in the English county town, 1750–1850

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2006

PAUL ELLIOTT
Affiliation:
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Abstract

Using case studies of English county towns, this article contributes towards the creation of a geography of scientific culture in England, 1750–1850. It argues that although emulation of the metropolis was important, provincial scientific culture had its own distinctive identity often concentrated through the lens of county town sociability and associations. The second part analyses data on literary and scientific institutions from the 1851 census in order to determine whether county towns continued to retain their importance in scientific culture by the middle of the nineteenth century.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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