Dr. NATALIELAWRENCE

Writing

Books & Chapters

My book about the birds of Hampstead Heath, Feathers and Eggshells, The Bird Journal of a Young London Girl, was published by Brambleby Books in 2005

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Book Chapters:

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• 'Making Monsters in Early Modern Europe', Worlds of Natural History, Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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• 'Early biogeographies and symbolic use in Europe in the 16th-18th centuries', in D.W.S. Challender, H. Nash, C. Waterman and C. R. Shepherd (eds), Pangolins: Science, Society and Conservation, Elsevier, forthcoming.

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• 'Decoding the Morse', The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. V, PDR Press, 2018.

Magazine & Online 

• 'Monstrous Isles', The Island Review, December 2018 

• 'Global Greed and the Gluttonous Dodo', Berfrois, November 2018 

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• 'A History of Monsters', Aeon Magazine, October 2018

• 'Fallen Angels: Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Europe', Public Domain Review, April, 2018

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• 'Scaly Devils', BBC Wildlife Magazine, 14th March 2018

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• 'Why the Unicorn has become and emblem of our times', Alice Fisher, The Observer, 15th Oct 2017 

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• 'The Chimaera', The Learned Pig, 10th Dec 2017

• 'The Monstrous Body', The Learned Pig, 10th Dec 2017

• 'Hic Fuerunt Dracones', The Learned Pig, 10th Dec 2017

• 'Churchill's Platypus', BBC Wildlife Magazine (31), October 2017

• 'Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses', Public Domain Review, 2017

• 'Frankenstein or Krampus? What our monsters say about us', The Conversation,2016

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• 'Disembodied birds: crafting the dodo and the birds of paradise in L’Écluse’s Exoticorum libri decem', Commodity Histories, 2014

Academic Writing

​Articles:

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• ‘The Prime Minister and the platypus: A paradox goes to war’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C, 43:1 (2012).

• ‘Assembling the dodo in early modern natural history’, BJHS (2015).

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• ‘Exotic origins: the emblematic biogeographies of early modern scaly mammals’, Itinerario(2015).

Book Reviews:

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• ‘Plumed wonders and ornithological passions (review of Drawn from Paradise: The Natural History, Art and Discovery of the Birds of Paradise, Attenborough & E. Fuller (2012); Ten Thousand Birds: 

• Ornithology since Darwin, T. Birkhead, J. Wimpenny, B. Montgomerie (2014))’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C (2014).

• ‘Entrepreneurial knowledge-making: Review of Commercial Visions, Science, Trade and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age, Dániel Margócsy, University of Chicago Press, 2014’, Endeavour(2015).

• 'Enenkel, Karl A. and Smith, Paul J. (editors). Zoology in early modern culture: intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education: volume 32', review, Archives of Natural History, (2016).