An Intimate History of Evolution - The Story of the Huxley Family

Alison Bashford is an Australian historian and Laureate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. Bashford was previously Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. She is Fellow of the British Academy, the Australian Academy of Humanities and Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. In 2020 she was awarded the Royal Society (NSW) History and Philosophy of Science Medal for transformative historical studies of the biomedical and environmental sciences. In 2021 she was awarded the Dan David Prize for scholarship in the history of medicine.>

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A vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shifts of the modern era ... a masterpiece of biography. John Gray New Statesman

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• Authors: Alison Bashford, Bashford Alison
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780241434321
• ISBN: 978-0-241-43432-1
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Collected biographies, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine