Alice MarplesAlice Marples is Research and Postgraduate Development Manager at The British Library, and a historian of science and medicine in Britain and its colonial networks, c.1650-1850. Since obtaining her PhD in Early Modern History at King’s College Londonin 2016, she has held research positions at the University of Manchester, the University of Oxford, and the Royal Society. Her first book, The Transactioneer: Hans Sloane and the Rise of Public Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Britain, is forthcoming with Johns Hopkins University Press. Read More Read Less