Robert Fox is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford, UK.Graeme Gooday is Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, UK.

• 1. Physics in Oxford: problems and perspectives ; 2. The context and practices of Oxford physics, 1839-77 ; 3. Robert Bellamy Clifton and the 'depressing inheritance' of the Clarendon Laboratory, 1877-1919 ; 4. Laboratories and physics in Oxford colleges, 1848-1947 ; 5. Mechanical physicists, the Millard Laboratory and the transition from physics to engineering ; 6. Translating ion physics from Cambridge to Oxford: John Townsend and the Electrical Laboratory, 1900-24 ; 7. The Lindemann era ; 8. Redefining the context: Oxford and the wider world of British physics, 1900-40 ; 9. Epilogue

Robert Fox is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford, UK.Graeme Gooday is Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, UK.

• 1. Physics in Oxford: problems and perspectives ; 2. The context and practices of Oxford physics, 1839-77 ; 3. Robert Bellamy Clifton and the 'depressing inheritance' of the Clarendon Laboratory, 1877-1919 ; 4. Laboratories and physics in Oxford colleges, 1848-1947 ; 5. Mechanical physicists, the Millard Laboratory and the transition from physics to engineering ; 6. Translating ion physics from Cambridge to Oxford: John Townsend and the Electrical Laboratory, 1900-24 ; 7. The Lindemann era ; 8. Redefining the context: Oxford and the wider world of British physics, 1900-40 ; 9. Epilogue

Robert Fox is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford, UK.Graeme Gooday is Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, UK.

• 1. Physics in Oxford: problems and perspectives ; 2. The context and practices of Oxford physics, 1839-77 ; 3. Robert Bellamy Clifton and the 'depressing inheritance' of the Clarendon Laboratory, 1877-1919 ; 4. Laboratories and physics in Oxford colleges, 1848-1947 ; 5. Mechanical physicists, the Millard Laboratory and the transition from physics to engineering ; 6. Translating ion physics from Cambridge to Oxford: John Townsend and the Electrical Laboratory, 1900-24 ; 7. The Lindemann era ; 8. Redefining the context: Oxford and the wider world of British physics, 1900-40 ; 9. Epilogue