Participant Info
- First Name
- Sabine
- Last Name
- Clarke
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- sabine.clarke@york.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of York
- Website URL
- https://www.york.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/clarke/
- Keywords
- History of science, technology and medicine, twentieth century Britain, British Empire, development, East Africa, Caribbean
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of science, technology and medicine who focusses on the history of the British Empire between 1914 and 1965. My work considers the function of scientific research and experts in state-led projects such as industrialisation, agricultural development and public health. In my work I have explored what British experts and policy makers meant when they talked about ‘developing’ Britain’s colonies after 1940. I am currently researching the history of pesticides in Britain, the Caribbean and Africa between 1920 and 1965. This project will produce a new history of DDT and other chemicals.
- Recent Publications
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Science at the end of empire: Experts and the development of the British Caribbean, 1940-62, (Manchester University Press, 2018).
The research council system and the politics of medical and agricultural research for the British Colonial Empire, 1940–52, Medical History, (2013) 57 (3), 338-358
Pure science with a practical aim: the meanings of fundamental research in Britain, circa 1916–1950, (2010), Isis, 101 (2), 285-311
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @archivemole
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa, Caribbean, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Environment, Medicine, Science, Technology
