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Dr William J. Ashworth Bsc (Hons), MA, PhD

Reader in History History

    Publications

    Selected Publications

    1. The British industrial revolution and the ideological revolution: Science, Neoliberalism and History (Journal article - 2014)
    2. The Ghost of Rostow: Science, Culture and the British Industrial Revolution (Journal article - 2008)
    3. Customs and Excise: Trade, Production and Consumption in England, 1640-1845 (Book - 2003)
    4. ‘System of terror’: Samuel Bentham, accountability and dockyard reform during the Napoleonic Wars∗ (Journal article - 1998)
    5. The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade (Book - 2017)
    6. The Trinity Circle Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England (Book - 2021)
    7. Memory, Efficiency, and Symbolic Analysis: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and the Industrial Mind (Journal article - 1996)
    8. The calculating eye": Baily, Herschel, Babbage and the business of astronomy (Journal article - 1994)