Novelty and Experience in London Sites of Collective Knowledge and Practice
Dr Rebekah Higgitt
Senior Lecturer
Social, cultural and material histories of science and technology in the 17th-19th centuries
University of Kent
Novelty and Experience in London Sites of Collective Knowledge and Practice
Dr Rebekah Higgitt
University of Kent
Dr Rebekah Higgitt received her BA and MA from the University of Durham and undertook her PhD in the history of science at Imperial College London. In 2005-7 she did postdoctoral research at the Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh.
From 2008 to 2013 she was Curator of History of Science and Technology at the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, before arriving at Kent in 2013.