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Meeting Places: scientific congresses and urban identity in Victorian Britain

This monograph innovatively combines the usually separate sources and approaches employed by historians of science and of urban history. The research effort involved in bringing these together to provide new insights into the conduct of scientific meetings in Victorian towns, was extensive. It drew on the institutional archives of major scientific associations as well as a plethora or urban history sources (guidebooks, newspapers, town council minutes, pamphlets and other printed ephemera) from across Britain. The claim for double-weighting is based on, 'a critical insight or argument which was dependent upon the completion of a lengthy period of data collection.’