Susannah Gibson is a historian specialising in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with a particular focus on history of science and women’s history. Recent books include Bluestockings (John Murray, 2024) which explores the lives of the pioneering eighteenth-century women who advocated for female education and argued that women were capable of rational thought, and The Spirit of Inquiry (Oxford University Press, 2019) which tells the story of how science changed from a fringe activity pursued by eccentrics into the behemoth we know today.
Susannah began her career in academia and has degrees in experimental physics and history as well as a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, she has been writing popular history books full time.
