Sundials An Illustrated History of Portable Dials

Hester Higton was awarded the Sackler Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum, where she studied the collections of sundials, nocturnals and horary quadrants held by the Royal Observatory. For the next two years she worked at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science before moving to her present position as Curator of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at Exeter UniversityHigton, Hester is the author of 'Sundials An Illustrated History of Portable Dials', published 2001 under ISBN 9780856675232 and ISBN 0856675237.