Article ID: CBB001022760

The Royal Society and the Commonwealth: Old Friendships, New Frontiers (2010)

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For more than three centuries, the Royal Society has played a notable part in the history of the British Empire and in the Commonwealth that succeeded it. In many ways, the history of the Royal Society itself reflects the history of Britain, its colonies, and its Dominions in the pursuit of natural knowledge. This paper considers leading features in the history of Anglo-Commonwealth relations, paying particular attention to people and events that, during the twentieth century, presented the Royal Society---and, by extension, British science---with choices that shape the Western world today.

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Authors & Contributors
Home, Roderick W.
Despy-Meyer, Andrée
Williams, R. J. P.
Wellenreuther, Hermann
Unger, Nancy C.
Turney, Jon
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Modern Philology
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
History of Science
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
Brepols
William Morrow
University of North Carolina Press
Trafford Publishing
RSC Publishing
Pickering & Chatto
Concepts
Societies; institutions; academies
Colonialism
Great Britain, colonies
Science and society
Science and culture
Teaching; pedagogy
People
Harvey, William
Sprat, Thomas
Pearson, Karl
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Hales, Stephen
Galton, Francis
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century
Early modern
21st century
Places
Great Britain
England
United States
India
Bologna (Italy)
Russia
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Oxford University
Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna
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