David Edgerton

I am the Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology at King’s College London.

My main work is on the history of technology, particularly the history of global technology in the 20th century. I also work on modern British history, on 20th century British history.

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Publications

Edgerton, D. (2020). Cummings has left behind a No 10 deluded that Britain could be the next Silicon Valley. The Guardian.
Edgerton, D. E. H. (2019). Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (re-issue). Profile Books.
Edgerton, D. (2012). Britain’s War Machine. Penguin.
Edgerton, D. (2011). In praise of Luddism. Nature, 471, 27–29.
Edgerton, D. (2010). Innovation, Technology, or History: What is the Historiography of Technology About? Technology and Culture, 51(3), 680–697.
Edgerton, D. E. H. (2007). Creole technologies and global histories: rethinking how things travel in space and time. History of Science and Technology Journal, 1(1), 75–112.

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The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines

Britain's War Machine

The Shock of the Old