Professor Simon Naylor

  • Professor of Historical Geography (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

telephone: 0141 3305171
email: Simon.Naylor@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

School of Geographical, and Earth Sciences, East Quadrangle, Main Building

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714

Biography

I am an historical geographer and historian of science, technology and exploration, with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I have published my work in geography, sociology and history of science journals. I am the co-editor of Cultural Turns, Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography (Pearson, 2000); New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century (IB Tauris 2009); and Anticipatory Histories (Uniform Books, 2011). I am the author of Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010). From 2016-202 I served as Editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. I was the most recent holder of the National Library of Scotland’s Graham Brown Research Fellowship. From January 2022 I will commence a Leverhulme Trust-funded Research Fellowship entitled 'Atmospheric Empires: Meteorological Observatories in Victorian Britain'. The Fellowship will allow me to complete my current book project.

I have a number of ongoing research projects: 1) the historical geographies of meteorological observatories in nineteenth-century Britain and its empire; 2) the social histories of extreme weather in Scotland since the late nineteenth century; 3) scientific instruments and museum spaces. Previous research projects have examined the historical geographies of geophysics in the polar regions during the Cold War; the histories and heritage of environmental and climate change; and regional scientific cultures in the nineteenth century.

Publications

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2024

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2024) The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781009207232

Tobin, George, Lorimer, Hayden and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2024) The art of earth-building: placing relief models in the culture of modern geography in Britain. Journal of Historical Geography, 85, pp. 91-94. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2024.04.005)

Jonell, Tara N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Jones, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Lucas, Adam and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2024) Limited waterpower contributed to rise of steam power in British 'Cottonopolis'. PNAS Nexus, 3(7), pgae251. (doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae251)

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2024) The survey sciences in thin air. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(1), pp. 143-146. (doi: 10.1177/20438206241230404)[Book Review]

2023

Jonell, Tara N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Calton, Iara Nave, Hurst, Martin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X, Jones, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Lucas, Adam R. and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2023) Shaping landscapes and industry: linking historic watermill locations to bedrock river knickpoints. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(3-4), pp. 328-345. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2205853)

Jones, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Hurst, Martin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X, Lucas, Adam R. and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2023) Location, location, location: reassessing W.H.K. Turner’s legacy for industrial geography in Scotland and beyond. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(1-2), pp. 205-218. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2178666)

Macdonald, N., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Bowen, J. P., Harvey-Fishenden, A. and Graham, E. (2023) Understanding weather futures based on the past: a case of Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(1-2), pp. 115-132. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2158366)

2022

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Macdonald, Neil, Bowen, James P. and Endfield, Georgina (2022) Extreme weather, school logbooks and social vulnerability: the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Journal of Historical Geography, 78, pp. 84-94. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2022.07.006)

2020

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Goodman, Matthew (2020) Atmospheric empire: historical geographies of meteorology at the colonial observatories. In: Mahony, Martin and Randalls, Samuel (eds.) Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges. Series: INTERSECTIONS: histories of environment. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 25-42. ISBN 9780822946168 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv10h9g13.5)

2019

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Schaffer, Simon (2019) Nineteenth-century survey sciences: enterprises, expeditions and exhibitions: introduction. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 73(2), pp. 135-147. (doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2019.0005)

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2019) Thermometer screens and the geographies of uniformity in nineteenth-century meteorology. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 73, pp. 203-221. (doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2018.0037)

2017

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2017) Historical geography in Transactions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(4), pp. 485-488. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12222)

Veale, Lucy, Endfield, Georgina, Davies, Sarah, Macdonald, Neil, Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Royer, Marie-Jeanne, Bowen, James, Tyler-Jones, Richard and Jones, Cerys (2017) Dealing with the deluge of historical weather data: the example of the TEMPEST database. Geo: Geography and Environment, 4(2), e00039. (doi: 10.1002/geo2.39)

Crampton, Jeremy W., Ginn, Franklin, Kirsch, Scott, Kobayashi, Audrey, Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Seemann, Jörn (2017) Teaching the history of geography: current challenges and future directions. Progress in Human Geography, 41(2), pp. 245-262. (doi: 10.1177/0309132515575940)

Bailey, Adrian, Dowling, Robyn, Little, Jo and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2017) Editorial. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(1), p. 1. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12167)

2016

Bailey, Adrian, Dowling, Robyn, Little, Jo and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2016) Editorial. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(2), pp. 107-108. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12110)

2015

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2015) Log books and the law of storms: maritime meteorology and the British Admiralty in the Nineteenth Century. Isis, 106(4), pp. 771-797. (doi: 10.1086/684641)

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2015) Weather instruments all at sea: meteorology and the Royal Navy in the nineteenth century. In: MacDonald, Fraser and Withers, Charles W.J. (eds.) Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration. Series: Studies in historical geography. Routledge: Farnham, pp. 77-96. ISBN 9781472434258

Endfield, Georgina and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2015) Climate and cultural heritage: an experiment with the ‘weather memory bank'. In: Harvey, David and Perry, Jim (eds.) The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity. Series: Key issues in cultural heritage. Routledge: London, pp. 62-77. ISBN 9781138781832

Endfield, Georgina and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2015) Climate and cultural heritage: an experiment with the ‘Weather Memory Bank’. In: Harvey, David and Perry, Jim (eds.) The Future of Heritage as Climates Change:Loss, Adaptation and Creativity. Series: Key issues in cultural heritag. Routledge, pp. 62-77. ISBN 9781138781832

2014

Veale, Lucy, Endfield, Georgina and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2014) Knowing weather in place: the Helm Wind of Cross Fell. Journal of Historical Geography, 45, pp. 25-37. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2014.03.003)

2011

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2011) Historical geographies of provincial science. Journal of Historical Geography, 37(3), pp. 390-392. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2011.06.008)[Book Review]

DeSilvey, C., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Sackett, C. (Eds.) (2011) Anticipatory History. Uniformbooks: Axminster. ISBN 9780956855923

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Hill, J. (2011) Museums. In: Agnew, J.A. and Livingstone, D.N. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. SAGE: London, pp. 390-392. ISBN 9781412910811

2010

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2010) Geological mapping and the geographies of proprietorship in nineteenth-century Cornwall. In: Livingstone, D.N. and Withers, C.W.J. (eds.) Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL and London, pp. 345-370. ISBN 9780226487267

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2010) Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England. Series: Science and culture in the nineteenth century (11). Pickering & Chatto: London. ISBN 9781851966363

2009

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Ryan, J. eds. (2009) New Spaces of Discovery: Geographies of Exploration in the Twentieth Century. Series: Tauris historical geography series, 2. I.B. Tauris: London. ISBN 9781848850170

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2009) Exploration and the twentieth century. In: Naylor, S. and Ryan, J. (eds.) New Spaces of Discovery: Geographies of Exploration in the Twentieth Century. Series: Tauris historical geography series (2). I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9781848850170

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2009) Fieldwork and the geographical career: T. Griffith Taylor and the exploration of Australia. In: Naylor, S. and Ryan, J. (eds.) New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century. Series: Tauris historical geography series (2). I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 105-124. ISBN 9781848850170

2008

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Dean, K. and Siegert, M. (2008) The IGY and the ice sheet: surveying Antarctica. Journal of Historical Geography, 34(4), pp. 574-595. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2008.07.001)

Turchetti, S., Dean, K., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Siegert, M. (2008) Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958–79. British Journal for the History of Science, 41(03), pp. 417-444. (doi: 10.1017/S0007087408000903)

Dean, K., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Turchetti, S. and Siegert, M. (2008) Data in Antarctic science and politics. Social Studies of Science, 38(4), pp. 571-604. (doi: 10.1177/0306312708090693)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Siegert, M., Dean, K. and Turchetti, S. (2008) Science, geopolitics and the governance of Antarctica. Nature Geoscience, 1(3), pp. 143-145. (doi: 10.1038/ngeo138)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2008) Seismic waves. In: Yusoff, K. (ed.) Bipolar. Arts Catalyst, pp. 46-47. ISBN 9780953454662

Turchetti, S. and ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2008) In principio fu la Guerra Fredda. Sapere, 74, pp. 24-34.

Turchetti, S., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Dean, K. and Siegert, M. (2008) On thick ice: scientific internationalism and Antarctic affairs, 1957–1980. History and Technology, 24(4), pp. 351-376. (doi: 10.1080/07341510802357419)

2007

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2007) Provincial authorities and botanical provinces: Elizabeth Warren’s 'Hortus Siccus of the Indigenous Plants of Cornwall'. Garden History, 35(Sup 2), pp. 84-95.

2006

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2006) Nationalizing provincial weather: meteorology in nineteenth-century Cornwall. British Journal for the History of Science, 39(03), pp. 407-433. (doi: 10.1017/S0007087406008399)

2005

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2005) Introduction: historical geographies of science – places, contexts, cartographies. British Journal for the History of Science, 38(1), pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1017/S0007087404006430)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2005) Writing the region: Jonathan Couch and the Cornish fauna. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 30(1), pp. 33-45. (doi: 10.1179/030801805X19708)

2004

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2004) Henry Walter Bates. In: Lightman, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. Thoemmes Press: Bristol, pp. 136-139. ISBN 9781855069992

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2004) Jonathan Couch. In: Lightman, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. Thoemmes Press: Bristol, pp. 492-493. ISBN 9781855069992

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2004) Richard Couch. In: Lightman, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. Thoemmes Press: Bristol, pp. 493-494. ISBN 9781855069992

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2004) Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan. In: Lightman, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. Thoemmes Press: Bristol, pp. 2076-2077. ISBN 9781855069992

2003

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2003) Collecting quoits: field cultures in the history of Cornish antiquarianism. Cultural Geographies, 10(3), pp. 309-333. (doi: 10.1191/1474474003eu277oa)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2003) Exploration and field work. In: Heilbron, J.L. (ed.) The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 288-291. ISBN 9780195112290

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2003) Mosques, temples and gurdwaras: new sites of religion in twentieth century Britain. In: Gilbert, D., Matless, D. and Short, B. (eds.) Geographies of British Modernity: Space and Society in the Twentieth Century. Series: RGS-IBG book series. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, pp. 609-603. ISBN 9780631235002

2002

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2002) The field, the museum and the lecture hall: the spaces of natural history in Victorian Cornwall. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 27(4), pp. 494-513. (doi: 10.1111/1475-5661.00067)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2002) Curiosity and curiosities in early modern England. Journal of Historical Geography, 28(4), pp. 609-613. (doi: 10.1006/jhge.2002.0506)[Book Review]

Dewsbury, J.D. and Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2002) Practising geographical knowledge: fields, bodies and dissemination. Area, 34(3), pp. 253-260. (doi: 10.1111/1475-4762.00079)

Gale, R. and Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2002) Religion, planning and the city: the spatial politics of ethnic minority expression in British cities and towns. Ethnicities, 2(3), pp. 387-409. (doi: 10.1177/14687968020020030601)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Ryan, J.R. (2002) The mosque in the suburbs: negotiating religion and ethnicity in South London. Social and Cultural Geography, 3(1), pp. 39-59. (doi: 10.1080/14649360120114134)

2001

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2001) Discovering nature, rediscovering the self: natural historians and the landscapes of Argentina. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 19(2), pp. 227-247. (doi: 10.1068/d207t)

2000

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2000) "That Very Garden of South America": European surveyors in Paraguay. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21(1), pp. 48-62. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9493.00063)

Cook, I., Crouch, D., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Ryan, J. (Eds.) (2000) Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography. Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780582368873

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2000) Society and nature: an introduction. In: Cook, I., Crouch, D., Naylor, S. and Ryan, J. (eds.) Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography. Prentice Hall, pp. 261-264.

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2000) Spacing the can: empire, modernity, and the globalisation of food. Environment and Planning A, 32(9), pp. 1625-1639. (doi: 10.1068/a32166)

1999

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (1999) Spatial regulation of British emigration to Argentina. In: Edkins, J., Persram, N. and Pin-Fat, V. (eds.) Sovereignty and Subjectivity. Series: Critical perspectives on world politics. L. Rienne: Boulder, CO, pp. 71-87. ISBN 9781555878030

1997

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Jones, G.A. (1997) Writing orderly geographies of distant places: the regional survey movement and Latin America. Ecumene, 4(3), pp. 273-299. (doi: 10.1177/147447409700400302)

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Articles

Tobin, George, Lorimer, Hayden and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2024) The art of earth-building: placing relief models in the culture of modern geography in Britain. Journal of Historical Geography, 85, pp. 91-94. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2024.04.005)

Jonell, Tara N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Jones, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Lucas, Adam and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2024) Limited waterpower contributed to rise of steam power in British 'Cottonopolis'. PNAS Nexus, 3(7), pgae251. (doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae251)

Jonell, Tara N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Calton, Iara Nave, Hurst, Martin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X, Jones, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Lucas, Adam R. and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2023) Shaping landscapes and industry: linking historic watermill locations to bedrock river knickpoints. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(3-4), pp. 328-345. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2205853)

Jones, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-9112, Jonell, Tara N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-3816, Hurst, Martin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X, Lucas, Adam R. and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2023) Location, location, location: reassessing W.H.K. Turner’s legacy for industrial geography in Scotland and beyond. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(1-2), pp. 205-218. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2178666)

Macdonald, N., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Bowen, J. P., Harvey-Fishenden, A. and Graham, E. (2023) Understanding weather futures based on the past: a case of Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(1-2), pp. 115-132. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2158366)

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Macdonald, Neil, Bowen, James P. and Endfield, Georgina (2022) Extreme weather, school logbooks and social vulnerability: the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Journal of Historical Geography, 78, pp. 84-94. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2022.07.006)

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Schaffer, Simon (2019) Nineteenth-century survey sciences: enterprises, expeditions and exhibitions: introduction. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 73(2), pp. 135-147. (doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2019.0005)

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2019) Thermometer screens and the geographies of uniformity in nineteenth-century meteorology. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 73, pp. 203-221. (doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2018.0037)

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2017) Historical geography in Transactions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(4), pp. 485-488. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12222)

Veale, Lucy, Endfield, Georgina, Davies, Sarah, Macdonald, Neil, Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Royer, Marie-Jeanne, Bowen, James, Tyler-Jones, Richard and Jones, Cerys (2017) Dealing with the deluge of historical weather data: the example of the TEMPEST database. Geo: Geography and Environment, 4(2), e00039. (doi: 10.1002/geo2.39)

Crampton, Jeremy W., Ginn, Franklin, Kirsch, Scott, Kobayashi, Audrey, Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Seemann, Jörn (2017) Teaching the history of geography: current challenges and future directions. Progress in Human Geography, 41(2), pp. 245-262. (doi: 10.1177/0309132515575940)

Bailey, Adrian, Dowling, Robyn, Little, Jo and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2017) Editorial. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(1), p. 1. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12167)

Bailey, Adrian, Dowling, Robyn, Little, Jo and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2016) Editorial. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(2), pp. 107-108. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12110)

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2015) Log books and the law of storms: maritime meteorology and the British Admiralty in the Nineteenth Century. Isis, 106(4), pp. 771-797. (doi: 10.1086/684641)

Veale, Lucy, Endfield, Georgina and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2014) Knowing weather in place: the Helm Wind of Cross Fell. Journal of Historical Geography, 45, pp. 25-37. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2014.03.003)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Dean, K. and Siegert, M. (2008) The IGY and the ice sheet: surveying Antarctica. Journal of Historical Geography, 34(4), pp. 574-595. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2008.07.001)

Turchetti, S., Dean, K., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Siegert, M. (2008) Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958–79. British Journal for the History of Science, 41(03), pp. 417-444. (doi: 10.1017/S0007087408000903)

Dean, K., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Turchetti, S. and Siegert, M. (2008) Data in Antarctic science and politics. Social Studies of Science, 38(4), pp. 571-604. (doi: 10.1177/0306312708090693)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Siegert, M., Dean, K. and Turchetti, S. (2008) Science, geopolitics and the governance of Antarctica. Nature Geoscience, 1(3), pp. 143-145. (doi: 10.1038/ngeo138)

Turchetti, S. and ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2008) In principio fu la Guerra Fredda. Sapere, 74, pp. 24-34.

Turchetti, S., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714, Dean, K. and Siegert, M. (2008) On thick ice: scientific internationalism and Antarctic affairs, 1957–1980. History and Technology, 24(4), pp. 351-376. (doi: 10.1080/07341510802357419)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2007) Provincial authorities and botanical provinces: Elizabeth Warren’s 'Hortus Siccus of the Indigenous Plants of Cornwall'. Garden History, 35(Sup 2), pp. 84-95.

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2006) Nationalizing provincial weather: meteorology in nineteenth-century Cornwall. British Journal for the History of Science, 39(03), pp. 407-433. (doi: 10.1017/S0007087406008399)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2005) Introduction: historical geographies of science – places, contexts, cartographies. British Journal for the History of Science, 38(1), pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1017/S0007087404006430)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2005) Writing the region: Jonathan Couch and the Cornish fauna. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 30(1), pp. 33-45. (doi: 10.1179/030801805X19708)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2003) Collecting quoits: field cultures in the history of Cornish antiquarianism. Cultural Geographies, 10(3), pp. 309-333. (doi: 10.1191/1474474003eu277oa)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2002) The field, the museum and the lecture hall: the spaces of natural history in Victorian Cornwall. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 27(4), pp. 494-513. (doi: 10.1111/1475-5661.00067)

Dewsbury, J.D. and Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2002) Practising geographical knowledge: fields, bodies and dissemination. Area, 34(3), pp. 253-260. (doi: 10.1111/1475-4762.00079)

Gale, R. and Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2002) Religion, planning and the city: the spatial politics of ethnic minority expression in British cities and towns. Ethnicities, 2(3), pp. 387-409. (doi: 10.1177/14687968020020030601)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Ryan, J.R. (2002) The mosque in the suburbs: negotiating religion and ethnicity in South London. Social and Cultural Geography, 3(1), pp. 39-59. (doi: 10.1080/14649360120114134)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2001) Discovering nature, rediscovering the self: natural historians and the landscapes of Argentina. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 19(2), pp. 227-247. (doi: 10.1068/d207t)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2000) "That Very Garden of South America": European surveyors in Paraguay. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21(1), pp. 48-62. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9493.00063)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2000) Spacing the can: empire, modernity, and the globalisation of food. Environment and Planning A, 32(9), pp. 1625-1639. (doi: 10.1068/a32166)

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Jones, G.A. (1997) Writing orderly geographies of distant places: the regional survey movement and Latin America. Ecumene, 4(3), pp. 273-299. (doi: 10.1177/147447409700400302)

Books

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2024) The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781009207232

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2010) Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England. Series: Science and culture in the nineteenth century (11). Pickering & Chatto: London. ISBN 9781851966363

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Ryan, J. eds. (2009) New Spaces of Discovery: Geographies of Exploration in the Twentieth Century. Series: Tauris historical geography series, 2. I.B. Tauris: London. ISBN 9781848850170

Book Sections

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Goodman, Matthew (2020) Atmospheric empire: historical geographies of meteorology at the colonial observatories. In: Mahony, Martin and Randalls, Samuel (eds.) Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges. Series: INTERSECTIONS: histories of environment. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 25-42. ISBN 9780822946168 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv10h9g13.5)

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2015) Weather instruments all at sea: meteorology and the Royal Navy in the nineteenth century. In: MacDonald, Fraser and Withers, Charles W.J. (eds.) Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration. Series: Studies in historical geography. Routledge: Farnham, pp. 77-96. ISBN 9781472434258

Endfield, Georgina and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2015) Climate and cultural heritage: an experiment with the ‘weather memory bank'. In: Harvey, David and Perry, Jim (eds.) The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity. Series: Key issues in cultural heritage. Routledge: London, pp. 62-77. ISBN 9781138781832

Endfield, Georgina and Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2015) Climate and cultural heritage: an experiment with the ‘Weather Memory Bank’. In: Harvey, David and Perry, Jim (eds.) The Future of Heritage as Climates Change:Loss, Adaptation and Creativity. Series: Key issues in cultural heritag. Routledge, pp. 62-77. ISBN 9781138781832

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Hill, J. (2011) Museums. In: Agnew, J.A. and Livingstone, D.N. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. SAGE: London, pp. 390-392. ISBN 9781412910811

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2010) Geological mapping and the geographies of proprietorship in nineteenth-century Cornwall. In: Livingstone, D.N. and Withers, C.W.J. (eds.) Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL and London, pp. 345-370. ISBN 9780226487267

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2009) Exploration and the twentieth century. In: Naylor, S. and Ryan, J. (eds.) New Spaces of Discovery: Geographies of Exploration in the Twentieth Century. Series: Tauris historical geography series (2). I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9781848850170

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2009) Fieldwork and the geographical career: T. Griffith Taylor and the exploration of Australia. In: Naylor, S. and Ryan, J. (eds.) New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century. Series: Tauris historical geography series (2). I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 105-124. ISBN 9781848850170

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2008) Seismic waves. In: Yusoff, K. (ed.) Bipolar. Arts Catalyst, pp. 46-47. ISBN 9780953454662

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2004) Henry Walter Bates. In: Lightman, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. Thoemmes Press: Bristol, pp. 136-139. ISBN 9781855069992

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2004) Jonathan Couch. In: Lightman, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. Thoemmes Press: Bristol, pp. 492-493. ISBN 9781855069992

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2004) Richard Couch. In: Lightman, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. Thoemmes Press: Bristol, pp. 493-494. ISBN 9781855069992

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2004) Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan. In: Lightman, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. Thoemmes Press: Bristol, pp. 2076-2077. ISBN 9781855069992

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2003) Exploration and field work. In: Heilbron, J.L. (ed.) The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 288-291. ISBN 9780195112290

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2003) Mosques, temples and gurdwaras: new sites of religion in twentieth century Britain. In: Gilbert, D., Matless, D. and Short, B. (eds.) Geographies of British Modernity: Space and Society in the Twentieth Century. Series: RGS-IBG book series. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, pp. 609-603. ISBN 9780631235002

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2000) Society and nature: an introduction. In: Cook, I., Crouch, D., Naylor, S. and Ryan, J. (eds.) Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography. Prentice Hall, pp. 261-264.

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (1999) Spatial regulation of British emigration to Argentina. In: Edkins, J., Persram, N. and Pin-Fat, V. (eds.) Sovereignty and Subjectivity. Series: Critical perspectives on world politics. L. Rienne: Boulder, CO, pp. 71-87. ISBN 9781555878030

Book Reviews

Naylor, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2024) The survey sciences in thin air. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(1), pp. 143-146. (doi: 10.1177/20438206241230404)[Book Review]

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2011) Historical geographies of provincial science. Journal of Historical Geography, 37(3), pp. 390-392. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2011.06.008)[Book Review]

Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 (2002) Curiosity and curiosities in early modern England. Journal of Historical Geography, 28(4), pp. 609-613. (doi: 10.1006/jhge.2002.0506)[Book Review]

Edited Books

DeSilvey, C., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Sackett, C. (Eds.) (2011) Anticipatory History. Uniformbooks: Axminster. ISBN 9780956855923

Cook, I., Crouch, D., Naylor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-1714 and Ryan, J. (Eds.) (2000) Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography. Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780582368873

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Grants

  • 2022 Atmospheric Empires: Meteorological Observatories in Victorian Britain. Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship; £40000, Naylor PI.

  • 2020-2022 Building Climate Resilience through Community, Landscapes and Cultural Heritage. AHRC; £320,000K, Naylor Co-I. Part of the UKRI Climate Resilience Programme.

  • 2020-1 Canadian SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, ‘Reassembling Ontario’s “Near North”: Reparation through university-museum-Indigenous research partnerships’; grant period 2 years; International Collaborator; $200000 (PI Kirsten Greer, Nipissing University).

  •  2019-20 Graham Brown Research Fellowship, National Library of Scotland; £5000.

  •  2019 SGSSS / ESRC Interdisciplinary competition studentship grant, ‘Exploring the social, historical and environmental legacies of steel slag’, grant period 4 years; £14413 per year.

  •  2018 AHRC CDP studentship grant, with Historic Scotland, ‘From Water to Steam: The transition from renewable energy to coal during Scotland’s industrial revolution’; grant period 3 years; £14413 per year.

  • 2013 AHRC Standard Grant, Care for the Future Theme, ‘Spaces of experience and horizons of expectation: the implications of extreme weather events, past, present and future’; grant period 3 years; £1,052,745; Co-applicant (PI Professor Georgina Endfield, Nottingham University).

  • 2013 AHRC Follow On Funding Grant, ‘Snow Scenes: Exploring the Role of Place in Weather Memories’, grant period 14 months until 30 April 2014; £60213; Co-Investigator (PI Professor Georgina Endfield, Nottingham University).

  • 2012 British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant, ‘The Meteorological Crusade: Britain’s Colonial Weather Observatories’; grant period 2 years until August 2014 (extended to April 2015); £6120; Principal Investigator.

  • 2012 AHRC Follow On Funding Grant, ‘Weather talks, Weather Walks: Exploring Popular Climate Histories and Futures’; grant period 1 year until end of January 2013; £90000; Co-applicant (PI Professor Georgina Endfield, Nottingham University).

  • 2010 AHRC Network Grant, ‘Anticipatory Histories of Landscape and Wildlife’; grant period 1 year; £30000; Principal Investigator (Co-applicant Dr Caitlin DeSilvey, University of Exeter).

Supervision

Current PhD Students, all externally funded by UKRI, government bodies or charities like Leverhume. 

  • Iara Calton, From Water to Steam: The transition from renewable energy to coal during Scotland’s industrial revolution. University of Glasgow; 2018-2022; Funded by AHRC CDP studentship grant, with Historic Environment Scotland, second supervisor Paul Bishop.

  • George Tobin, A Historical Geography of Relief Models. University of Glasgow; 2017-2020; Funded by AHRC CDP studentship, with Royal Geographical Society.

  • Tom Sefton, Lord Kelvin and the Earth Sciences. University of Glasgow; 2016-2019; Funded by Leverhulme Trust Collections grant; second supervisor Nicky Reeves.

  • Jenna Kirk, Exploring the social, historical and environmental legacies of steel slag. University of Glasgow; 2019-2023; Funded by Scottish Graduate School for the Social Sciences; other supervisors John Macdonald and Kenny Brophy.
  • Brown, Jennifer
    Title: Modelling innovation and ‘improvement’: the histories and geographies of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland’s models collection
  • Yang, Xin
    A tool for scientific governance? The historical geography of China’s Arctic research station

Additional information

ESTEEM INDICATORS

  • 2021 Invited speaker, Promises of Precision: Questioning 'Precision' in Precision Instruments, 
    Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
  • 2019 Invited International Speaker, Fourth Conference in the History of Meteorological Science and Technology, China Meteorological Administration Training Centre, Beijing, China.
  • 2018-19 Formal academic advisor to a major BBC2 series, Icons of the Twentieth Century.
  • 2018  Inaugural lecture, ‘The history of science in Cornwall’, at the Royal Institution of Cornwall’s 200th anniversary celebrations, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.
  • 2017 Invited talk and workshop participation, ‘Unsettling Settler Colonialism: Canada at 150’, University of Nipissing, Ontario, Canada.
  • 2015 Invited talk and workshop participation, ‘Managing Cultural Heritage in a Climate Change(d) Future’, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute in collaboration with and funded by the AHRC, Washington DC.
  • 2014 Invited talk, ‘Regional geographies of scientific knowledge: A case-study from nineteenth-century England’, López Piñero Institute for the history of medicine and science, University of Valencia.
  • 2011 Invited talk and workshop participation, ‘Historical Geographies of Weather and Climate’, South Asian Historical Records and Climate Workshop, AHRC and British Library funded event, Bangalore, India.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • 2019-  Deputy Head, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

  •  2019-  Head of Human Geography Research Group, University of Glasgow

  • 2016-20  Editor, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers   

  • 2014- Editor, Routledge Research in Historical Geography Series

  • 2010- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Historical Geography.

  • 2006-10 Book Review Editor, Journal of Historical Geography

  • 2014-21 Member of AHRC Peer Review College

  • 2012-14 Council Member and Trustee of the British Society for the History of Science.


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