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Research paper thumbnail of ‘A new and hopeful type of social organism’: Julian Huxley, J.G. Crowther and Lancelot Hogben on Roosevelt's New Deal

The British Journal for the History of Science, 2019

The admiration of the Soviet Union amongst Britain's interwar scientific left is well known. ... more The admiration of the Soviet Union amongst Britain's interwar scientific left is well known. This article reveals a parallel story. Focusing on the biologists Julian Huxley and Lancelot Hogben and the scientific journalist J.G. Crowther, I show that a number of scientific thinkers began to look west, to the US. In the mid- to late 1930s and into the 1940s, Huxley, Crowther and Hogben all visited the US and commented favourably on Roosevelt's New Deal, in particular its experimental approach to politics (in the form of planning). Huxley was first to appreciate the significance of the experiment; he looked to the Tennessee Valley Authority as a model of democratic planning by persuasion that could also be applied in Britain. Crowther, meanwhile, examined the US through the lens of history of science. In Famous American Men of Science (1937) and in lectures at Harvard University, he aimed to shed light on the flaws in the Constitution which were frustrating the New Deal. Finall...

Research paper thumbnail of Lamarckism by other means: interpreting Pavlov in twentieth-century Britain

Journal of the History of Biology, 2018

Book Reviews by Oliver Hill-Andrews

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Bloomsbury Scientists: Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Loren Graham, Lysenkos Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Ben Marsden, Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O'Connor (eds.) Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800–1914

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Clare Hanson (2013) Eugenics, literature, and culture in post-war Britain.

Other by Oliver Hill-Andrews

Research paper thumbnail of Interpreting Science: J.G. Crowther and the Making of Interwar British Culture

Talks by Oliver Hill-Andrews

Research paper thumbnail of "Even the Most Hopeless May Learn in the End": Conditioning Reflexes in Interwar Britain

Research paper thumbnail of Science in British Culture, 1900–1945

Research paper thumbnail of Writing in a Modern Renaissance: J.G. Crowther's Scientific Journalism

Research paper thumbnail of 'Not a Research Scientist in the Ordinary Sense': J.G. Crowther and Professional Science in Interwar Britain

Research paper thumbnail of J.G. Crowther and the Genres of Scientific Journalism

Research paper thumbnail of 'The strength of a cow in an Oxo cube': science in the Plebs League in the 1920s

Research paper thumbnail of Creating a 'Proper Propaganda for Science'; J.G. Crowther, the Tots and Quots and the attempt to debunk the 'mystery and magic' of science

Research paper thumbnail of ‘A new and hopeful type of social organism’: Julian Huxley, J.G. Crowther and Lancelot Hogben on Roosevelt's New Deal

The British Journal for the History of Science, 2019

The admiration of the Soviet Union amongst Britain's interwar scientific left is well known. ... more The admiration of the Soviet Union amongst Britain's interwar scientific left is well known. This article reveals a parallel story. Focusing on the biologists Julian Huxley and Lancelot Hogben and the scientific journalist J.G. Crowther, I show that a number of scientific thinkers began to look west, to the US. In the mid- to late 1930s and into the 1940s, Huxley, Crowther and Hogben all visited the US and commented favourably on Roosevelt's New Deal, in particular its experimental approach to politics (in the form of planning). Huxley was first to appreciate the significance of the experiment; he looked to the Tennessee Valley Authority as a model of democratic planning by persuasion that could also be applied in Britain. Crowther, meanwhile, examined the US through the lens of history of science. In Famous American Men of Science (1937) and in lectures at Harvard University, he aimed to shed light on the flaws in the Constitution which were frustrating the New Deal. Finall...

Research paper thumbnail of Lamarckism by other means: interpreting Pavlov in twentieth-century Britain

Journal of the History of Biology, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Interpreting Science: J.G. Crowther and the Making of Interwar British Culture

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