Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind - Hardcover

Dr David Stack is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Reading. His work is largely concerned with the inter-relationship of science, politics and culture in the nineteenth century. He is the author of The First Darwinian Left.

'This is an interesting insight into the minds of intelligent Victorians.'BBC History Magazine, October 2008 (Stephen Halliday)

"Stack's book does a superior job of reviewing Combe's colorful story. Any scholar with a general interest in Victorian intellectual culture would be well served by this text. Beyond academic readers, Stack's book would probably operate well at the graduate level." —Roger Pauly, History: Reviews of New Books, Winter 2009

"...Stack's biography of Combe has great merit. It provides an archival basis for many of it judgements, and provides an intelligent picture of a Scot who was, by the standards of time, a publishing sensation, in addition to being a popular lecturer and an effective educational reformer."British Journal for the History of Science, 2009

'This is an interesting insight into the minds of intelligent Victorians.'BBC History Magazine, October 2008 (Sanford Lakoff)

“Stack’s book does a superior job of reviewing Combe’s colorful story. Any scholar with a general interest in Victorian intellectual culture would be well served by this text. Beyond academic readers, Stack’s book would probably operate well at the graduate level.” –Roger Pauly, History: Reviews of New Books, Winter 2009

"...Stack’s biography of Combe has great merit. It provides an archival basis for many of it judgements, and provides an intelligent picture of a Scot who was, by the standards of time, a publishing sensation, in addition to being a popular lecturer and an effective educational reformer."British Journal for the History of Science, 2009