Helen Anne Curry - EXPeditions

I’m a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

I’m a historian, and I write and research the ways in which science and technology have shaped the environments we live in and the foods that we eat.

EXPs by Helen Anne Curry

Publications

Curry. H. A. (2019). Why Save a Seed? Isis, 110(2), 337–340.
Curry, H. A. (2019). Gene Banks, Seed Libraries, and Vegetable Sanctuaries: The Cultivation and Conservation of Heritage Vegetables in Britain, 1970–1985. Culture, Agriculture, Food, and Environment, 41(2), 87–96.
Curry, H. A. (2019). From bean collection to seed bank: transformations in heirloom vegetable conservation, 1970–1985. BJHS themes, 4, 149–167.
Curry, H. A. (2016). Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America. The University of Chicago Press.
Curry, H. A. (2016). Atoms in Agriculture: A Study of Scientific Innovation Between Technological Systems. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 46(2),119–153.
Curry, H. A. (2014). From garden biotech to garage biotech: amateur experimental biology in historical perspective. The British Journal for the History of Science, 47(3), 539–565.

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