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Barrow-Green, June E. (2024). Memorabilia from past ICMs recently acquired by the IMU Archive. European Mathematical Society Magazine(133) pp. 56–58.

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Barrow-Green, June (2023). Augustus Love. In: Hollings, Christopher and McCartney, Mark eds. Oxford's Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy: The First 400 Years. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 141–156.

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Barrow-Green, June (2023). Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson: a collaboration on the mathematical theory of epidemics. In: Chemla, Karine; Ferreirós, José; Ji, Lizhen; Scholz, Erhard and Wang, Chang eds. The Richness of the History and Philosophy of Mathematics: A Tribute to Jeremy Gray. Archimedes (ARIM), 66. Springer Cham, pp. 365–389.

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Barrow-Green, June and Royle, Tony (2022). The work of British women mathematicians during the First World War. In: Jones, Claire G.; Martin, Alison E. and Wolf, Alexis eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 549–572.

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Barrow-Green, June (2022). “A Senior Wrangler Among Senior Wranglers”: The Mathematical Education of Robert Leslie Ellis. In: Verburgt, Lukas M. ed. A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 55. Cham: Springer, pp. 21–49.

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Barrow-Green, June (2022). George Birkhoff's forgotten manuscript and his programme for dynamics. In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022, EMS Press, Berlin.

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Barrow-Green, June (2021). “Knowledge gained by experience”: Olaus Henrici—engineer, geometer and maker of mathematical models. Historia Mathematica, 54 pp. 41–76.

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Barrow-Green, June (2020). Stokes' mathematical education. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 378(2174)

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Barrow-Green, June (2020). "The Accident of Being the First Woman Senior Wrangler". In Newsletter of the London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society488, London.

Barrow-Green, June (2019). "Stokes of Pembroke S.W. & a very good one" - The mathematical education of George Gabriel Stokes. In: McCartney, Mark; Whittaker, Andrew and Wood, Alastair eds. George Gabriel Stokes: Life, Science and Faith. Oxford University Press, pp. 47–62.

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Barrow-Green, June; Ponce Dawson, Silvina and Roy, Marie-Françoise (2019). The Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences from a Historical Perspective. In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians - 2018 (Sirakov, Boyan; Ney de Souza, Paulo and Viana, Marcelo eds.), World Scientific, pp. 1073–1092.

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Barrow-Green, June (2019). The Historical Context of the Gender Gap in Mathematics. In: Araujo, Carolina; Benkart, Georgia; Praeger, Cheryl and Tanbay, Betül eds. World Women in Mathematics 2018 - Proceedings of the First World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)2. Association for Women in Mathematics. Springer.

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Barrow-Green, June; Gray, Jeremy and Wilson, Robin (2019). The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach. Providence, USA: The American Mathematical Society.

Barrow-Green, June (2017). “An exquisite machine”: Olaus Henrici’s harmonic analyser. In: Mathematical Instruments between Material Artifacts and Ideal Machines: Their Scientific and Social Role before 1950. Oberwolfach Reports, 14(4) pp. 3506–3510.

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Barrow-Green, June and Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2016). “The first man on the street” - tracing a famous Hilbert quote (1900) back to Gergonne (1825). Historia Mathematica, 43(4) pp. 415–426.

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Barrow-Green, June (2016). 'A woman can win the victory, though she may not wear the wreath': women and mathematics in late nineteenth-century Cambridge. In: Rooney, David ed. Mathematics. How it Shaped Our World. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd in association with The Science Museum, London, pp. 183–186.

Barrow-Green, June and Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2015). The history of applied mathematics. In: Higham, Nicholas ed. The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 55–79.

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Barrow-Green, June (2015). “Anti-aircraft guns all day long”: Karl Pearson and computing for the Ministry of Munitions. Revue d'Histoire des mathématiques, 21 pp. 111–150.

Barrow-Green, June (2015). “Clebsch took notice of me”: Olaus Henrici and surface models. In: Mathematisiches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach Report, European Mathematical Society, Zürich, Switzerland, 2015(47) pp. 22–25.

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Barrow-Green, June (2014). Cambridge mathematicians' responses to the first World War. In: Aubin, David and Goldstein, Catherine eds. 'The War of Guns and Mathematics': Mathematical Practices and Communities in France and Its Western Allies around World War I. History of Mathematics. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, pp. 59–124.

Barrow-Green, June (2013). Merely a speculation of the mind? William Henry Fox Talbot and mathematics. In: Brusius, Mirjam; Dean, Katrina and Ramalingam, Chitra eds. William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography. Yale Center for British Art -Studies in British Art (23). United States: Yale University Press, pp. 67–94.

Barrow-Green, June (2011). An American goes to Europe: three letters from Oswald Veblen to George Birkhoff in 1913/1914. The Mathematical Intelligencer, 33(4) pp. 37–47.

Barrow-Green, June (2011). Wranglers in exile. In: Flood, Raymond; Rice, Adrian and Wilson, Robin eds. Mathematics in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 121–174.

Barrow-Green, June (2010). The dramatic episode of Sundman. Historia Mathematica, 37(2) pp. 164–203.

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Barrow-Green, June (2010). Euler as an educator. BSHM Bulletin, 25(1) pp. 10–22.

Barrow-Green, June (2009). From cascades to calculus: Rolle's Theorem. In: Robson, Eleanor and Stedall, Jacqueline eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics. Oxford Handbooks in Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 737–754.

Barrow-Green, June and Gray, Jeremy (2006). Geometry at Cambridge, 1863-1940. Historia Mathematica, 33(3) pp. 315–356.

Barrow-Green, June (2006). 'Much necessary for all sortes of men': 450 years of Euclid's 'Elements' in English. BSHM Bulletin, 21(1) pp. 2–25.

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Barrow-Green, June (2005). Henri Poincare, memoir on the three-body problem (1890). In: Grattan-Guinness, I. ed. Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 627–638.

Barrow-Green, June (2004). Burnside’s applied mathematics. In: Neumann, Peter M.; Mann, A.J.S. and Tompson, Julia C. eds. The Collected Papers of William Burnside, Volume 1. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 63–70.

Barrow-Green, June E. (2002). Gösta Mittag-Leffler and the Foundation and Administration of Acta Mathematica. In: Hunger Parshall, Karen and Rice, Adrian C. eds. Mathematics unbound: the evolution of an International Mathematical Research Community, 1800-1945. History of Mathematics (23). Providence, USA: American Mathematical Society/London Mathematical Society, pp. 138–164.

Barrow-Green, June Elizabeth (1993). Poincaré and the Three Body Problem. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis The Open University.