Participating in the Knowledge Society

Chapter 1 Introduction: Looking Beyond the Walls

Chapter 2 To the Heavens in Rural Lancashire: Jeremiah Horrocks and His Circle, and the Foundation of British Astronomical Research

Chapter 3 Collectors Harnessed: Research on the British Flora by Nineteenth-Century Amateur Botanists

Chapter 4 Scientific Inquiry and the Missionary Enterprise

Chapter 5 Listening and Learning? Audiences and Their Roles in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 6 Locating Industrial Research: Universities, Firms and the State, 1916–39

Chapter 7 A Brief History of Field Archaeology in the UK: The Academy, the Profession and the Amateur

Chapter 8 Inside-Out or Outside-In? The Case of Family and Local History

Chapter 9 Community Historians and Their Work Around the Millennium

Chapter 10 Researching Ourselves? The Mass-Observation Project

Chapter 11 Science With a Team of Thousands: The British Trust for Ornithology

Chapter 12 Think Tanks and Intellectual Authority Outside the University: Information Technocracy or Republic of Letters?

Chapter 13 Everyday Domestic Research in the Knowledge Society: How Ordinary People Use Information and Communication Technologies to Participate

Chapter 14 Building Knowledge through Debate: OpenDemocracy on the Internet

Chapter 15 Blogging: Personal Participation in Public Knowledge-Building on the Web

Chapter 16 Using the Internet as a Research Tool: Between Information and Communication

Chapter 17 Research, Universities and the Knowledge Society

Chapter 18 Re-opening Research: New Amateurs or New Professionals?