Books by Rebekah Higgett

Rebekah Higgitt is a lecturer in the history of science at the University of Kent, having been a curator at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the National Maritime Museum for five years. She is fascinated by the history of the evolving relationship between science, government and the public. As well as having published academic works on the history of science, Rebekah writes regularly for the Guardian Science Blogs network. She is one of the curators working on a major exhibition on the story of longitude at the National Maritime Museum and is co-author of a book that accompanies the exhibition.