Publications

Forthcoming

In The Congruence Engine: digital methods in linking industrial heritage (UCL Press, expected publication late 2025):

• Max Long, Tasha Kitcher, Daniel Belteki, and Robert Hellawell, ‘Towards a natural collection: digital and community histories of river pollution in Bradford’.
• Max Long, Tim Boon, and Stephen Weldon, ‘Building an Object-Enriched Bibliography: Experiments in Linking Museum Objects and Academic Literature’.
• Tim Boon, Max Long, Ben Russell, and Felix Needham-Simpson, ‘Creating a Textile Machinery Nomenclature Link via Wikidata’.

Articles and chapters

‘Mass media and the nature of urban life in interwar Britain’, in Carlos Tabernero (ed.), Urban narratives about nature: Socio-ecological imaginaries between science and entertainment (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2025).

‘“Photography versus the Pest”: Shell Chemicals, visual media, and pesticides in post-war Britain’, special issue of Media + Environment, edited by Priya Jaikumar and Lee Grieveson (2024), https://mediaenviron.org/article/123796-photography-versus-the-pest-shell-chemicals-visual-media-and-pesticides-in-postwar-britain, archived at https://perma.cc/Z5SB-WYUZ.

‘Tinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F. Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944)’, Science Museum Group Journal, Volume 20 (2023), https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/tinkering-with-nature-craft-domesticity-and-female-labour-in-f-percy-smiths-data-notebooks-1925-1944/.

‘Nature on the airwaves: natural history and the BBC in interwar Britain, 1922–1939’, Archives of Natural History, Volume 50, Issue 1 (2023), https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/anh.2023.0824.

‘“Accustomed to female domination”: Women, mass media and animal intimacy in interwar Britain’, Environmental History, Volume 27, Issue 1 (2022), https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/717440.

‘Cultural History and Modern Science’, The Historical Journal, (FirstView, 2021), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X2100042X.

‘The ciné-biologists: natural history film and the co-production of knowledge in interwar Britain’, British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53, Issue 4 (2020), 527-551, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087420000370. (Runner-up for the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize 2021)

‘Light, Vision and Observation in Norman Nicholson’s Topographical Notes’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Volume 96, Issue 2 (2020), 133-148, https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.96.2.7.

Book Reviews

‘Simon J. Potter. This Is the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain? 1922–2022’, Journal of British Studies, Volume 62, Issue 3 (2023), 845 – 847, https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.133.

‘Michael Guida. Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio & Modern Life’, Twentieth Century British History, Volume 34, Issue 1 (2023), 160–162, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwac037.

‘Laura Carter. Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain 1918-1979’, Cultural and Social History, Volume 20, Issue 1 (2023), https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14780038.2023.2172935.

‘James G. Mansell, The Age of Noise in Britain’, Cultural History, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2018), 111–113, https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2018.0164.

‘Andrew Gaedtke, Modernism and the Machinery of Madness’, Rethinking History (2018), 611-613, https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2018.1473125.

‘Brian Hochman, Savage Preservation’, History of Anthropology Newsletter, 2017, https://histanthro.org/reviews/savage-preservation/.

Other publications

‘Wool Aliens of the British Empire’, History Today, April 2025, https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/wool-aliens-british-empire.

‘Max Long – Historian Highlight’, Doing History in Public, 27 May 2021, https://doinghistoryinpublic.org/2021/05/27/max-long-historian-highlight/.

‘Secrets of Nature’, ViewFinder Magazine, Issue 117 (March 2021), https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/viewfinder/articles/secrets-of-nature/.

‘Doing a PhD with Narcolepsy’, The Cambridge Researcher, 1 April 2020, https://cambridgeresearcher.com/doing-a-phd-with-narcolepsy/.

‘Film archives: using moving images as historical sources’, Doing History in Public, 3 September 2019, https://doinghistoryinpublic.org/2019/09/03/film-archives-using-moving-images-as-historical-sources/.

‘Patrick Leigh Fermor, Memory and the process of revision’ in Patrick Leigh Fermor: The Journey Continues, Mouseio Benaki Journal, 9th Supplement (Athens, 2017), 199-208.