Call for Applications: Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience at...
Columbia University is pleased to announce three postdoctoral positions for researchers who have earned the doctorate, or its equivalent, in a humanities or social science discipline—such as...
View ArticleEvent: Syon Abbey Herbal – Reception at Society of Antiquaries, London
“The Syon Abbey Herbal was written by Thomas Betson in his notebook, sometime between his profession in 1481 as a priest-brother at the Bridgettine double monastery of Syon Abbey near London, and his...
View ArticleFully-funded PhD on ‘Evolution and the Hygienic City’, Queen’s University...
Applications are invited for a 3-year fully funded interdisciplinary PhD project on ‘Evolution and the Hygienic City: Darwinian medicine in fin-de-siècle Belfast’ beginning October 2015 and based at...
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Winter 2014
Each quarter we will bring news from the BSHSBSHS PresidentProfessor Greg RadickJohn Pickstone was a great connection-maker: ideas with ideas; ideas with people; people with people. “Getting...
View ArticleFully-Funded AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentship
Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA), supervised jointly at the University of Nottingham and the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG). The title of the...
View Article2015 Morris Award: Call for Nominations
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry solicits nominations for the 2015 John and Martha Morris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Modern Chemistry or the History of the...
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Conference: Ruling Climate The theory and practice of environmental...
Registration is now open for Ruling Climate.“Ruling Climate’ aims to explore the relationship between cultural perceptions of the environment and practical attempts at environmental regulation and...
View ArticleConference: Leibniz – scientist, Leibniz – philosopher
Registration is now open for the International Conference at the Lampeter Campus of University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, 3 – 5 July 2015.This conference will celebrate Leibniz’s work by exploring...
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Playing God Film Series 2015
How do we anticipate and comprehend worlds just beyond our grasp? How do we find ways of understanding and portraying the interplay between science and religion on film? As part of the Wellcome Trust...
View ArticleBJHS
With the 350th anniversary of the Philosophical Transactions upon us, many of us have been reflecting on the role of publishing in the history of science. As Adrian Johns pointed out in a 2000 BJHS...
View ArticleArrivals and Registration at Swansea for BSHS Annual Conference 2015 (#bshs15)
Visit Swansea University’s website for a map of the University Campus, or see the main conference page for an interactive map of the Swansea area, as well as updated versions of the conference...
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BJHS Preview: Issue 2, 2015
Editor Charlotte Sleigh writes: Issue 2 for 2015 has a bit of a Georgian theme to it, with no less than three papers based in the period of the savant-turned-madman king. Two of these, moreover, focus...
View ArticleDingle Prize Winner 2015
The BSHS is delighted to announce that the 2015 Dingle Prize for the best book in history of science, technology and medicine accessible to a popular audience is awarded to Martin Rudwick for his book...
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Upcoming: Three Societies Conference, Edmonton, June 2016
North Saskatchewan River Valley – ©University of Alberta Lesley Cormack, University of Alberta, writes: “Every four years the 3-Societies Meeting brings together three organizations dedicated to the...
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Upcoming: BSHS Postgraduate Conference, January 2016, University of Cambridge
View over Trinity College, Gonville and Caius and Clare College towards King’s College Chapel, seen from St Johns College chapel, Cambridge (UK). On the left, just in front of King’s College chapel, is...
View Article#bshs15 in Storify
Message from BSHS Web: “Following BSHS Annual Conference 2015 in Swansea, I have collated the tweets into a number of Storify entries for posterity. There are quite a lot of tweets, especially for the...
View Article2014 Singer Prize
The Singer Prize is awarded by the British Society for the History of Science every two years to the writer of an unpublished essay, based on original research into any aspect of the history of...
View ArticleOne Day Meeting: 50 years of Dilution Refrigerators
16th September 2015, University of Manchester Organised by the History of Physics and Low Temperature Groups of the Institute of Physics The principle of cooling below 0.3K by dissolving the isotope...
View Article4th Notes and Records Essay Award
Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities throughout the field of history of science, technology and medicine. The Essay Award is open to researchers in the history of...
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BJHS Preview: Issue 3, 2015
Editor Charlotte Sleigh writes: Waddling into Autumn 2015, the third issue of BJHS for 2015 opens with Natalie Lawrence’s account of how early-modern naturalists fitted the dodo into contemporary...
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