I am interested in intellectual history and in particular, conceptions of the relation between humans and machines. This topic intersects with a range of others which I work on, including the history of science and technology and British history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
I have also worked on responses to technology in American history, the Unabomber and the history of science and medicine from the seventeenth century. I continue to be interesed in these topics, as well as historiography and the philosophy of history, the philosophy of technology, the ‘two cultures’ controversy and British ‘decline’, utopianism and ecology.