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Lecture: It Takes a University – Towards Critical Eugenics in the Academy
‘It Takes a University: Towards Critical Eugenics in the Academy’, Subhadra Das A public lecture on the histories and legacies of eugenics in UK universities 17:00-18:00, Friday 10th May Lecture...
View ArticleFirst issue of the BJHS for 2024 coming up!
Dear colleagues, I’m very happy to announce that the first issue of the BJHS for 2024 will shortly be arriving! Appropriately for spring, you’ll find that many of the articles in this issue discuss...
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CfP – Cambridge Atmospheric Humanities Workshop
The Cambridge Atmospheric Humanities Reading Group is pleased to invite papers for its inaugural workshop, generously funded by the BSHS and hosted by HPS, Cambridge. This one-day event will explore...
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CfP: 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
The 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology will be held from 29 June – 5 July 2025 at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Symposium Proposals are due by 1 May...
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Viewpoint February 2024 is out!
Hello to all digital subscribers, my name is Joe and this is my first issue as editor of Viewpoint. I am overjoyed to have been appointed to this position, and I am excited to continue the excellent...
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The BSHS Pickstone Prize – call for nominations
Nominations are now open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize, awarded every two years to the best scholarly book in the history of science (broadly construed) in English. The Prize aims to recognize...
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Galwad am Bapurau / Conference Call for the 2024 annual conference of the BSHS
Dyddiad Cau yr 23ain o Chwefror, 2024 Galwad am Bapurau Mi fydd cynhadledd blynyddol y Gymdeithas Prydeinig dros Hanes Gwyddoniaeth yn cymryd lle o ddydd Mercher y 10fed i dydd Sadwrn y 13eg o...
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Call for Abstracts – Circulating Knowledge
Call for Abstracts Circulating Knowledge – 20 Years On Conference/Symposium Research, Translation, Teaching August 7-10, 2024. University of King’s College Kjipuktuk – Halifax Mi’kma’ki – Nova Scotia,...
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Hughes prize Shortlisted: Clare Hickman
Clare Hickman The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic...
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Hughes prize Shortlisted: Alison Caroline Bashford
Alison Caroline Bashford An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family In his early twenties, poor, racked with depression, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey...
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Hughes prize Shortlisted: Keith Andrew Wailoo
Keith Andrew WailooPushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette Spanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black...
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[Event] Shift Happens: The abridged history of having fun \/\/ith keyboards
Shift Happens: The abridged history of having fun //ith keyboards With Marcin Wichary Date: Thursday 11 May 2023 Location: St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom Time: 7–8.30pm BST To book please...
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CfP – History Lab Plus 2023 Early-Career Conference: Making History
History Lab Plus 2023 Early-Career Conference: Making History Senate House, London 27-28 July 2023 Deadline for submissions: 8 May 2023 Contact email: MakingHistory2023@gmail.com History Lab+ is a...
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Winners – BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2023
The BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize, was established in 2012 and recognises excellence in public exhibitions that address topics in the history of science, history of technology or history of...
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CfP: Science, Fiction, Faith and the Future(s)
Colleagues are invited to submit their proposals on the theme of ‘Science, Fiction, Faith and the Future(s)’, for a workshop to be held at the Science Museum (London), in collaboration with the British...
View ArticleAdvert for Chair – BSHS Outreach and Engagement Committee
Would you like to help shape how the public engages with research into history of science, technology and medicine (HSTM)? Do you want to gain experience directing grants and awarding prizes for a...
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Submissions open for the 2023 Hughes Prize
In keeping with the Society’s concern to communicate history of science to broad audiences, the 2023 Hughes Prize (formally the Dingle Prize) will be offered for the best book in the history of...
View ArticlePresident’s Newsletter: October 2022
Dear BSHS members, This is my first opportunity to write to the BSHS community in my new role as president. I’m really looking forward to building on the fantastic work of my predecessors, particularly...
View ArticleBecome a postgraduate Member of the BSHS!
Are you a Masters or PhD student whose work touches on the history of science, technology or medicine? If so, we invite you to find your academic home in the British Society for the History of Science....
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