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Authored Books

Inkster, Ian (2001) The Japanese industrial economy: late development and cultural causation. London: Routledge.

Inkster, Ian (2001) Japanese industrialisation: historical and cultural perspectives. London: Routledge.

Inkster, Ian and Bryson, M. (1999) Industrial man. The life and works of Charles Sylvester, engineer, 1776-1828. Salt Lake City: Jackpot Books.

Inkster, Ian (1998) Technology and industrialisation: historical case studies and international perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Inkster, Ian (1997) Scientific culture and urbanisation in industrialising Britain. London: Ashgate. (Variorum Collected Studies Series)

Inkster, Ian (1991) Clever city: Japan, Australia and the Multifunction Polis. Sydney: Sydney University Press.

Inkster, Ian (1991) Science and technology in history: an approach to industrialisation. London: Macmillan.

Inkster, Ian (1982) Science, public science and science policy in Australia circa, 1880s-1916. Canberra: Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science.

Inkster, Ian (1981) Science, technology and the late development effect: transfer mechanisms in Japan's industrialisation, circa 1850-1912. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies. (V.R.F. series, no. 84)

Inkster, Ian (1980) Japan as a development model? relative backwardness and technological transfer. Bochum: Brockmeyer.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Inkster, Ian and James, F., eds. (2012) Religious dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld circle, 1740-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Inkster, Ian and Morrell, Jack, eds. (2006) Metropolis and province: science in British culture, 1780-1850. Abingdon: Routledge. (Routledge Library Editions)

Inkster, Ian and Satofuka, F., eds. (2000) Culture and technology in modern Japan. London: I.B. Tauris.

Inkster, Ian, Hill, Jeff, Griffin, C. and Rowbotham, J., eds. (2000) The golden age: essays in British economic and social history, 1850-1870. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Inkster, Ian, ed. (1985) The steam intellect societies: essays on culture, education and industry, 1820-1914. Nottingham: University of Nottingham Press.

Inkster, Ian and Morrell, Jack, eds. (1983) Metropolis and province: science in British culture, 1780-1850. London: Hutchinson.

Book Chapters

Inkster, Ian (2010) 'Cultural engineering and the industrialization of Japan, circa 1868-1912.' In: Horn, Jeff, Rosenband, Leonard N. and Smith, Merritt Roe, (eds.), Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: The MIT Press, pp. 291-308.

Inkster, Ian (2010) 'Japan: Cultural engineering and late development.' In: Horn, Jeff, Rosenband, Leonard N. and Smith, Merritt Roe, (eds.), Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Inkster, Ian (2009) 'Engineering identity, intellectual property, and information systems in industrialization, circa 1830-1914.' In: Cardosa de Matos, A., Diogo, M.P., Gouzevitch, I. and Grelon, A., (eds.), The professional identity of engineers: historical and contemporary issues. Lisbon: Edições Colibri, pp. 375-380.

Inkster, Ian (2009) 'Intellectual property, information, and divergences in economic development - institutional patterns and outcomes circa 1421-2000.' In: Castle, David, (ed.), The role of intellectual property rights in biotechnology innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 413-436.

Inkster, Ian (2008) 'Association, provincialisme et sociologie du progrès technique: le cas de la Grande -Bretagne, entre 1780 et 1914.' In: Benoit, Serge, Emptoz, G. and Woronof, D., (eds.), Encourager l'innovation en France et en Europe. Paris: Éditions du CTHS, pp. 329-350.

Inkster, Ian (2008) 'Patents as indicators of technological change and innovation: an historical analysis of the Patent Data 1830-1924.' In: Castle, David, (ed.), The role of intellectual property rights in biotechnological innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Inkster, Ian (2007) 'Epilogue: thoughtful doing and early modern oeconomy.' In: Roberts, Lissa, Schaffer, S. and Dear, P., (eds.), The mindful hand: inquiry and invention from the Late Renaissance to early industrialisation. Amsterdam: Edita KNAW; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 443-452.

Inkster, Ian (2003) 'Technological and industrial change: a comparative essay.' In: Porter, Roy, (ed.), The Cambridge history of science. Volume 4, Eighteenth-century science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 845-882.

Inkster, Ian (2003) 'Technology in history: case studies and concepts circa 1700-2000.' In: Narasimha, Roddam, Srinavasan, Jagannathan and Biswas, S.K., (eds.), The dynamics of technology: creation and diffusion of skills and knowledge. London; New Delhi: Sage, pp. 21-83.

Inkster, Ian (2003) 'The national imperative. The state, science and technology, and policy evolution, 1400-2000.' In: The encyclopedia of life support systems. Oxford: UNESCO.

Inkster, Ian (1999) 'Inertia and technological change: an elementary typology, Industrial history and technological development in Europe.' In: Byé, Pascal and Hayton, Daniel, (eds.), Industrial history and technological development in Europe. Luxembourg: European Commission, pp. 343-348.

Inkster, Ian (1997) 'Pacific partnership: creativity, industrial innovation and the proposed Japan-Australia Multifunctional Polis.' In: Satofuka, F., (ed.), Kagakugijutsu no seitaigaku. Tokyo: Agne Shofu Publishing, pp. 292-317.

Inkster, Ian (1996) 'Catching up and taking over: structural change, the technopolis concept and Japanese R and D for Australia.' In: Lowe, Morris and Marriott, Helen, (eds.), Japanese science, technology and economic growth down-under. Melbourne: MAI, pp. 39-71.

Inkster, Ian (1996) 'Into the twentieth century: patterns in the relations between science, technology and the state during the early industrialisation process.' In: Barrere, M., (ed.), Sciences et developpement. Paris: Orstrom Editions, pp. 67-96.

Inkster, Ian (1996) 'Late development revisited: aspects of international technology transfer and Russian industrialisation.' In: Ustiantsev, S.V., (ed.), Russia and West Europe. Interaction of industrial cultures. Ekaterinburg: Bank of Cultural Information, pp. 7-16.

Inkster, Ian (1996) 'Technology transfer and industrial transformation: an interpretation of the pattern of economic development, circa 1870-1914.' In: Fox, Robert, (ed.), Technological change. Methods and themes in the history of technology. London: Harwood Academic Publishers, pp. 177-201. (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)

Inkster, Ian (1995) 'Colonial and neo-Colonial transfer of technology: perspectives on India before 1914.' In: Macleod, Roy and Kumar, Deepak, (eds.), Technology and the Raj: Western technology and technical transfers to India, 1700-1947. New Delhi: Sage, pp. 25-51.

Inkster, Ian (1995) 'Culture, action and institutions: on exploring the historical economic success of England and Japan.' In: Gouk, Penelope, (ed.), Wellsprings of achievement: cultural and economic dynamics in early modern England and Japan. London: Variorum, pp. 239-266.

Inkster, Ian (1995) 'The development of science and technology essay, The Cambridge encyclopedia of Australia.' In: Bambrick, Susan, (ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 270-272. (Cambridge World Encyclopedias)

Inkster, Ian (1994) 'Meiji economic development in perspective - revisionist comments on the industrial revolution in Japan.' In: Macpherson, W.J., (ed.), The industrialisation of Japan. Oxford: Blackwell.

Inkster, Ian (1993) 'Eikoku to Nihon no Sangyo Kakumei ni Okeru Gijutsu Henkaku ni miru Shakaiteki Haikei ni tsuite no Hikaku Kento (Comparative treatment of the social context of technological change during the industrial revolutions of Britain and Japan).' In: Ryōsuke, Ōhashi, (ed.), Bunka no hon'yaku kanosei (Translatability of culture). Tokyo: Jimbun Shoin, pp. 133-146.

Inkster, Ian (1992) 'Commentary on the iron and steel industry.' In: Hayashion, T., (ed.), First International Symposium the Japanese Experience of Technology Transfer. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.

Inkster, Ian (1991) 'Plans for the present and fear of the future: problems of the Multifunctional Polis in Australia.' In: Scott, P., (ed.), A herd of white elephants. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 126-138.

Inkster, Ian (1988) 'The other side of Meiji - conflict and conflict management.' In: McCormack, G. and Sugimoto, Y., (eds.), The Japanese trajectory: modernization and beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 107-128.

Inkster, Ian and Todd, J. (1988) 'The support structure for Australian science, circa 1851-1916.' In: Home, R., (ed.), Australian science in the making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 102-133.

Inkster, Ian (1985) 'Hypotheses: patterns in the economic and social history of steam intellect prior to 1914.' In: Inkster, Ian, (ed.), Steam intellect societies: essays on culture, education and industry, circa 1820-1914. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, Department of Adult Education.

Inkster, Ian (1985) 'Popularised culture and steam intellect, 1820-1850s.' In: Inkster, Ian, (ed.), Steam intellect societies: essays on culture, education and industry, circa 1820-1914. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, Department of Adult Education.

Inkster, Ian (1985) 'The context of steam intellect in Britain.' In: Inkster, Ian, (ed.), Steam intellect societies: essays on culture, education and industry, circa 1820-1914. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, Department of Adult Education.

Inkster, Ian (1984) 'The message and the massage - the mythology of Japan's industrialisation.' In: Rix, A. and Mouer, R., (eds.), Japan's impact on the world. Melbourne: Japanese Studies Association of Australia, pp. 18-29.

Inkster, Ian (1983) 'Aspects of the history of science and science culture in Britain, 1780-1850 and beyond.' In: Inkster, Ian and Morrell, Jack, (eds.), Metropolis and province: science in British culture, 1780-1850. London: Hutchinson, pp. 11-54.

Inkster, Ian (1981) 'Scientific culture and scientific education in Liverpool, 1760-1812.' In: Stephens, M.D. and Roderick, G.W., (eds.), Scientific and technical education in early industrial Britain. New York City, NY: Hyperion Books, pp. 28-47.

Inkster, Ian (1977) 'Marginal men: aspects of the social role of the medical community in Sheffield, 1790-1850.' In: Woodward, John and Richards, David, (eds.), Health care and popular medicine in nineteenth century England. London: Croom Helm, pp. 128-164.

Inkster, Ian (1976) 'Culture, institutions and urbanity: the itinerant science lecturer in Sheffield, 1790-1850.' In: Pollard, Sidney and Holmes, Colin, (eds.), Economic and social history of South Yorkshire. Sheffield: South Yorkshire County Council, Recreation, Culture and Health Authority, pp. 218-232.

Journal Article

Inkster, Ian (2013) 'China 'Should flex its soft power'.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2013) 'Education must find its direction.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2012) 'China’s Middle Class and Taiwan.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2012) 'China’s divided route to dominance.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2012) 'Highly Fraught with Good to Man: patent organisation, Agency and Useful Knowledge in British Machinofacture circa 1780-1851 and Beyond.' History of Technology, 31. pp. 115-144.

Inkster, Ian (2012) 'How Far is KMT Rule Inevitable?' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2012) 'Introduction. Patent Agency: Problems and Perspectives.' History of Technology, 31. pp. 89-97.

Inkster, Ian (2012) 'Politicians dream the impossible.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2012) 'See China as yesterday’s Taiwan.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2012) ''Seediq Bale' and pride in Taiwan.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2012) 'Seeking DPP chair to save politics.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2011) 'Anthropologies of Enthusiasm: Charlotte Salwey, Shinji Ishii, and Japanese Colonialism in Formosa circa 1913-1917.' Taiwan Journal of Anthropology, 9 (1). pp. 1-32.

Inkster, Ian (2011) 'Breaking out of the Strait-jacket.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2011) 'Chinese G20 misstep a policy loss.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2011) 'Crowding out other election issues.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2011) 'Era of Chinese soft power beckons.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2011) 'Nurturing a Chinese middle class.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2011) 'Taiwan must find political space.' Taipei Times. p. 8.

Inkster, Ian (2010) 'Education, attitudes and the armed forces: a cultural-technological and comparative historical analysis.' Languages, Literary Studies and International Studies: an International Journal = 語文與國際研究, 7. pp. 23-44.

Inkster, Ian (2010) 'Oriental enlightenment: the problematic military experiences and cultural claims of Count Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky in Formosa during 1771.' Taiwan Historical Research, 17 (1). pp. 27-70.

Inkster, Ian (2009) 'Technology and culture during the first climacteric.' International History Review, 31 (2). pp. 356-364.

Inkster, Ian (2009) 'The West had science and the rest had not? Queries of the mindful hand.' History of Technology, 29. pp. 205-211.

Inkster, Ian (2008) 'Policies, patents and reliable knowledge – an institutional approach to the climacteric, 1850-1914.' Economies et Sociétés Histoire: Economique Quantitative, 42 (3). pp. 461-482.

Inkster, Ian (2007) 'Technology in World history: cultures of constraint and innovation, emulation and technology transfers.' Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, 5 (2). pp. 108-127.

Inkster, Ian (2006) 'Potentially global: 'useful and reliable knowledge' and material progress in Europe circa, 1474-1914.' International History Review, 28 (2). pp. 237-286.

Inkster, Ian (2004) 'Engineers as patentees and the cultures of invention 1830-1914 and beyond: the evidence from the Patent Data.' Quaderns d'Historia de l'Engyneria, 6. pp. 25-50.

Inkster, Ian (2004) 'Finding artisans: British and international patterns of technological innovation 1790-1914.' Cahiers d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, 52. pp. 69-92.

Inkster, Ian (2004) 'The resources of decisive technological change: reflections on the steam engine from Watt to Stephenson.' History of Technology, 25. pp. 199-202.

Inkster, Ian (2003) 'Patents as indicators of technological change and innovation: an historical analysis of the Patent Data, 1830-1914.' Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 73 (2). pp. 179-208.

Inkster, Ian (2002) 'Politicising the Gershenkron Schema: technology transfer, late development and the state in historical perspective.' Journal of European Economic History, 31 (1). pp. 45-87.

Inkster, Ian (2002) 'An imperfection of institutions.' History of Technology, 24. xvii-xxi.

Inkster, Ian (2000) 'Capitale umano e transferimento di tecnologia. Il caso giapponese in una prospettiva di lugo periodo.' Annali di Storia dell'impresa, 11. pp. 379-400.

Inkster, Ian (2000) 'Pursuing big books: technological change in global history.' History of Technology, 22. pp. 233-254.

Inkster, Ian (2000) 'The trouble with technology: comments on the experience of Singapore under Entrepot capitalism.' Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 73 (1). pp. 107-115. (Unpublished)

Inkster, Ian (1999) 'Technology transfer in the great climacteric. Machinofacture and international patenting in world development, circa 1850-1914.' History of Technology, 21. pp. 87-106.

Inkster, Ian (1998) 'Accidents and barriers. Technology between Europe, China and Japan for 500 years.' Asian Journal of International Studies, 1. pp. 1-37.

Inkster, Ian (1998) 'Lessons of the past? Technology transfer and Russian industrialisation in comparative perspective.' Science Technology and Society, 3 (2). pp. 307-333.

Inkster, Ian (1998) 'Motivation and achievement: technological change and creative response in comparative industrial history.' Journal of European Economic History, 27 (1). pp. 29-66.

Inkster, Ian (1997) 'Global ambitions; science and technology in international historical perspective, 1450-1800.' Annals of Science, 54 (6). pp. 611-622.

Inkster, Ian (1996) 'Discoveries, inventions and industrial revolutions: on the varying contributions of technologies and institutions from an international historical perspective.' History of Technology, 18. pp. 39-58.

Inkster, Ian (1993) 'Antitheses on peculiarity - or, a dialogue on labour organisation and the Japanese economy, circa 1960-1980, East Asia.' East Asia: International Review of Economic, Political and Social Development, 6. pp. 111-119.

Inkster, Ian (1993) 'Education, human capital and technical change in Japan - a skeptical evaluation, East Asia.' East Asia: International Review of Economic, Political and Social Development, 6. pp. 99-110.

Inkster, Ian (1992) 'Japan: taking over and staying ahead.' Futures.

Inkster, Ian (1992) 'Relative backwardness and revolution. A note on Marx, history and the transition to socialism.' Journal of Contemporary Asia, 22 (1). pp. 146-151.

Inkster, Ian (1991) 'Made in America but lost to Japan: science, technology and economic performance in the two capitalist superpowers.' Social Studies of Science, 21 (1). pp. 157-178.

Inkster, Ian (1991) 'Science, technology and economic development: Japanese historical experience in context.' Annals of Science, 48 (6). pp. 545-563.

Inkster, Ian (1991) 'Techno Japan: technology, economic change and the social system in contemporary Japan.' Journal of Contemporary Asia, 20. pp. 174-179.

Inkster, Ian (1990) 'Catching up and hanging on: the formation of science in modern Japan.' Annals of Science, 47 (4). pp. 393-406.

Inkster, Ian (1990) 'Forging the links: small business, R and the MFP.' The Australian Extrapreneur, 1. pp. 10-13.

Inkster, Ian (1990) 'Henry George, protectionism and the welfare of the working class.' American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 49 (3). pp. 375-384.

Inkster, Ian (1990) 'Intellectual dependency and the sources of invention: Britain and the Australian technological system in the 19th century.' History of Technology, 12. pp. 40-64.

Inkster, Ian (1990) 'Mental capital: transfers of knowledge and technique in eighteenth century Europe.' Journal of European Economic History, 19 (2). pp. 403-441.

Inkster, Ian (1990) 'Promethean futures: the biotechnological challenge and the Japanese model.' Asian Studies Review, 14 (1). pp. 129-134.

Inkster, Ian (1990) 'Structural change, the Multifunctional Polis and Japanese R for Australia.' Journal of Contemporary Asia, 20 (3). pp. 312-329.

Inkster, Ian (1990) 'Technology transfer: the historical dimensions in detail.' MetaScience, 8. pp. 12-19.

Inkster, Ian (1990) 'The low down on high tech 'Down Under': or the plain person's guide to the multifunction polis.' Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation, 8 (2). pp. 320-330.

Inkster, Ian (1989) 'Appropriate technology, alternative technology and the Chinese model: terminology and analysis.' Annals of Science, 46 (3). pp. 263-276.

Inkster, Ian (1989) 'Partly solid and partly sophistical - Adam Smith as an historian of economic thought.' Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, 29 (4). pp. 91-96.

Inkster, Ian (1989) 'The institutionalist theory of economic development, technological progress and social change.' Journal of Economic Issues, 22 (4). pp. 1243-1247.

Inkster, Ian (1988) 'Britain and the single factor thesis once more: a comment on Kristine Bruland.' Journal of European Economic History, 17 (1). pp. 187-188.

Inkster, Ian (1988) 'Cultural enterprise: science, steam intellect and social class in Rochdale, circa 1833-1900.' Social Studies of Science, 18 (2). pp. 291-330.

Inkster, Ian (1988) 'Prometheus bound: science, technology and industrialisation in Japan, China and India - a political economy approach.' Annals of Science, 45 (4). pp. 399-426.

Inkster, Ian (1986) 'The 'Manchester School' in Yorkshire: Economic relations between India and Sheffield in the mid-nineteenth century.' Indian Economic and Social History Review, 23 (3). pp. 313-323.

Inkster, Ian (1985) 'Scientific Enterprise and the Colonial 'Model': Observations on Australian Experience in Historical Context.' Social Studies of Science, 15 (4). pp. 677-704.

Inkster, Ian (1984) 'Eikoka Mechanic Institutes Undoshizo no Saikosei o Meguru Saikin no Kenyo Seika, Jimbun Ronshu.' Jimbun Ronshu, 14. pp. 45-84.

Inkster, Ian (1984) 'On 'modelling' Japan for the Third World (part two).' East Asia, 2. pp. 159-183.

Inkster, Ian (1983) 'On 'modelling' Japan for the Third World (part one).' East Asia, 1. pp. 155-187.

Inkster, Ian (1983) 'Social class and popularised culture in Sheffield during the 1840s.' Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, 11. pp. 82-86.

Inkster, Ian (1983) 'Technology as the cause of the industrial revolution: some comments.' Journal of European Economic History, 12 (3). pp. 651-657.

Inkster, Ian (1983) 'The message and the massage - the mythology of Japan's industrialisation.' Berliner Beiträge zur sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Japan-Forschung, 41. p. 16.

Inkster, Ian (1982) 'Advocates and audience: astronomy in England, circa 1750-1850.' Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 92 (3). pp. 60-66.

Shergold, P. R. and Inkster, Ian (1982) 'Civil Engineering and the Admiralty: Thomas Tredgold, Edward Deas Thomson and Early Steam Navigation, 1827-1828.' The Great Circle, 4 (1). pp. 41-52.

Inkster, Ian (1982) 'Variations on a theme by Thackray.' Newsletter of the British Society for the History of Science, 19. pp. 17-23.

Inkster, Ian (1982) 'The ambivalent role of patents in technology development.' Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2 (3). pp. 181-190.

Inkster, Ian (1981) 'Collective biography and technological transfer.' Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 1 (3). pp. 254-256.

Inkster, Ian (1981) 'Seditious science: a reply to Paul Weindling, British Journal History of Science.' British Journal History of Science, 14 (2). pp. 181-187.

Inkster, Ian (1980) 'Agricultural growth and the late development effect in Japan.' Development and Change, 11 (4). pp. 642-648.

Inkster, Ian (1980) 'A Japanese affair.' Newsletter of the British Society for the History of Science, 3. pp. 16-18.

Inkster, Ian (1980) 'Lunacy and the industrial revolution.' Bulletin of Society for Social History of Medicine, 27. pp. 42-47.

Inkster, Ian (1980) 'Robert Goodacre and popular astronomy, 1777-1835.' Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 90 (3). pp. 245-253.

Inkster, Ian (1980) 'The continuing story of foreigners in Meiji, Japan.' Japan Foundation Newsletter, 8. pp. 6-7.

Inkster, Ian (1980) 'The public lecture as an instrument of science education for adults - the case of Great Britain, 1750-1850.' Paedagogica Historica, 20 (1). pp. 80-107.

Inkster, Ian (1979) 'London science and the Seditious Meetings Act of 1817.' British Journal History of Science, 12 (2). pp. 192-196.

Inkster, Ian (1979) 'Meiji economic development in perspective - revisionist comments on the industrial revolution in Japan.' The Developing Economies, 17 (1). pp. 45-68.

Inkster, Ian (1978) 'Robert Goodacre's astronomy lectures (1823–1825), and the structure of scientific culture in Philadelphia.' Annals of Science, 35 (4). pp. 353-363.

Inkster, Ian (1978) 'Scientific culture and education in Nottingham prior to 1843.' Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 82. pp. 45-60.

Inkster, Ian (1977) 'Science and society in the metropolis: a preliminary examination of the social and institutional context of the Askesian Society of London.' Annals of Science, 34 (1). pp. 1-32.

Inkster, Ian (1977) 'A phase in middle class culture: phrenology in Sheffield, 1824-1850.' Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, 10. pp. 273-280.

Inkster, Ian (1976) 'The social context of an educational movement: a revisionist approach to the English mechanics institutes, 1820-1850.' Oxford Review of Education, 2 (3). pp. 277-307.

Inkster, Ian (1975) 'Science and the mechanics' institutes, 1820-50, the case of Sheffield.' Annals of Science, 32 (5). pp. 351-374.

Inkster, Ian (1973) 'Charles Sylvester and the great railroad debate.' Annals of Science, 28 (2). pp. 113-120.

Inkster, Ian (1973) 'Science instruction for youth and the Industrial Revolution: an informal network.' The Vocational Aspect of Education, 25 (61). pp. 91-101.

Inkster, Ian (1973) 'The development of a scientific community in Sheffield, 1790-1850: a network of people and interests.' Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, 10. pp. 99-131.

Monographs and Working Papers

Inkster, Ian (1975) A smattering of history: marginal men and the cultural context of the English Industrial Revolution. UNSW working paper. Sydney: School of Economics..