Electrifying History: expertise, risk and gender in late Victorian culture

这个项目重新诠释了电力在第一次世界大战之前是如何进入英国家庭生活的。我认为，电气化通常被视为工业化的必然结果，而不是电气化是在很大的困难下完成的。新一代的“专家”试图改变电的名声，因为它容易冒险，令人担忧的无形和令人不快的照明。他们有争议地扩展了技术专长的界限，将电灯推广为一种安全的奢侈品，唤起了乌托邦式的电力未来和电力作为神奇女仆的形象。尽管这位女性专家提倡用电技术做饭和取暖，但许多家庭还是选择了燃气。

This project reinterprets how electricity entered British domestic life before World War 1. Usually seen as an inevitable result of industrialisation, I argue instead of electrification was accomplished only with great difficulty. A new breed of 'experts' sought to counter the reputation of electricity as a risk-prone, worryingly intangible and an unpleasant illuminate. Controversially extending the boundaries of technical expertise, they popularized electric lighting as a safe luxury commodity invoking utopian electricity futures and images of electricity as a magical female servant. Notwithstanding female's expert's advocacy of electrical techniques for cooking and heating, many householders chose instead to trust gas.