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This study explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took place in the eighteenth-century home. While histories of science have identified the genteel household as an important site for scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via biographies of important men of science. Using a wide range of historical source material, from household accounts and inventories to letters and print culture, this book investigates the tools within reach of early modern householders in their search for knowledge. It considers the under-explored question of the home as a site of knowledge production and does so by viewing scientific enquiry as one of many interrelated domestic practices. It shows that knowledge production and consumption were necessary facets of domestic life and that the eighteenth-century home generated practices that were integral to 'Enlightenment' enquiry.

History --- science; knowledge; home; domestic labour; material culture; cultural history; gender; collecting; natural history; astronomy --- Science --- Georgian Era (1714-1837) --- Great Britain.

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Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange.

Women intellectuals. --- Women. --- Intellectual life. --- Women --- Women intellectuals --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Intellectuals --- Cultural life --- Culture --- History --- Correspondence. --- 1600-1799 --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Social and moral questions --- Domestic Space. --- Early Modern. --- Gender equality. --- Gender. --- Intellectual Life. --- Letter-Writing.

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Women --- History --- Correspondence --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life

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History through material culture' is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources. Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources can make important, valuable and original contributions to history. Written by two experienced museum practitioners and historians, the book recognises the theoretical and practical challenges of this approach and offers clear advice on methods to get the best out of material culture research. With a focus on the early modern and modern periods, this volume draws on examples from across the world and demonstrates how to use material culture to answer a range of enquiries, including social, economic, gender, cultural and global history.

History --- Material culture. --- Material culture --- Histoire --- Culture matérielle --- Research. --- History. --- Recherche --- Culture matérielle --- Recherche. --- Histoire.