Clive Gamble - Making Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time Revolution of 1859

Roland Pease started this book when he asked me in 2007 to do a talk for the BBC on strange encounters in science. I chose the 1859 time revolution about which I knew little. I was fortunate that three excellent books prepared the ground; Donald Graysons The Establishment of Human Antiquity(1983), George Stockings Victorian Anthropology(1987), and Bowdoin Van Ripers Men among the Mammoths(1993). These were followed for the time revolutionaries by Arthur MacGregors edited volume Sir John Evans(2008), Janet Owens ground-breaking Darwins Apprentice(2013), Mark Pattons Science, Politics and Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock(2016), and John McNabbs insightful Dissent with Modification(2012). The task of embedding the time revolution into the nineteenth century was aided by the depth of historical scholarship for this period. Among the books I consulted, three were invaluable; A. N. Wilsons The Victorians(2003), David Cannadines Victorious Century(2017), and Jonathan Conlins Evolution and the Victorians(2014). I would never have embarked upon the book without the efforts of the legions of anonymous scanners who, in the last decade, have put so much published material online. Resources such as the Darwin Correspondence Project( https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/ ) and Mike Pittss SALON, the online newsletter of the Society of Antiquaries ( www.sal.org.uk ), have transformed writing histories, while Wikpediais the best fact checker the world has ever known. I encourage you all to donate to it.

Four libraries have been essential to my project. At the Royal Society, Keith Moore put me in touch with Prestwichs original manuscripts and referee reports. Heather Rowland, Adrian James, and Bernard Nurse at the Society of Antiquaries found sources and answered questions about illustrators, while Ted Nield and Wendy Cawthorne at the Geological Society granted access to Prestwichs notebooks, and their archivist Caroline Lam uncovered the Frville Pit photographs from among Prestwichs papers and pointed me to Murchisons archive.