Recent research has shown that the places where people participated in, read about, viewed and consumed popular science were complex social spaces that contributed to defining the evolving image of an industrializing, modernizing British society. Visual images played a large role in defining the cultural meanings of science. Against a backdrop of debate about the nature and intended audience of popular science, illustrated papers came to play an important role in projecting an image of Victorian science as integral to a well-ordered, convivial society. As this essay has argued, newspaper artists could be both useful, and problematic, allies with BAAS agendas for popularizing science to mass audiences. They also supplied Victorian society with enduring images of popular science that circulated well beyond the time and place of BAAS events.
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