Peter McCaffery taught Sociology and Cultural History in the University of Aberdeen. His publications include Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth, edited with Edwin van Teijlingen, George Lowis and Maureen Porter (2000). He is interested in problems of interdisciplinary collaboration, both in research and in professional practiceBen Marsden is Director of the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He has been involved in the teaching of cultural history, especially of science and technology, since 1992. His books include Watt’s Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention (2002), Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain with Crosbie Smith (2005), and Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914 edited with Ralph O’Connor and Hazel Hutchison (2013).

'Both students and teachers of cultural history should welcome this wide-ranging collection of exemplary studies, including its lucid and perceptive introduction.'Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK

• Introduction. Histories of Cultural History 1. Gender 2. Commerce, Credit and Consumption 3. Time, Space and Measurement 4.Others 5. Popular Culture 6. Religion 7. Childhood 8. Individualism 9. Literacy and Orality 10. Technology 11. War. Index.

Peter McCaffery taught Sociology and Cultural History in the University of Aberdeen. His publications include Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth, edited with Edwin van Teijlingen, George Lowis and Maureen Porter (2000). He is interested in problems of interdisciplinary collaboration, both in research and in professional practiceBen Marsden is Director of the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He has been involved in the teaching of cultural history, especially of science and technology, since 1992. His books include Watt’s Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention (2002), Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain with Crosbie Smith (2005), and Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914 edited with Ralph O’Connor and Hazel Hutchison (2013).

'Both students and teachers of cultural history should welcome this wide-ranging collection of exemplary studies, including its lucid and perceptive introduction.'Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK

• Introduction. Histories of Cultural History 1. Gender 2. Commerce, Credit and Consumption 3. Time, Space and Measurement 4.Others 5. Popular Culture 6. Religion 7. Childhood 8. Individualism 9. Literacy and Orality 10. Technology 11. War. Index.