ESHS 2018: Call for Symposia
We are delighted to announce that the Call for Symposia for the next European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) Biennial Conference is now live and can be found here. The conference – which is...
View ArticlePop Science! Lates Event at the Natural History Museum
Constructing Scientific Communities is taking over the Natural History Museum for one night! Friday 27 October 2017 18:00-22:00 Natural History Museum, London Science is a cornerstone of modern...
View ArticleExhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
The current special exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, is Anna Dumitriu: BioArt and Bacteria (29 September 2017 – 18 March 2018). It is a contemporary art...
View ArticleEvents at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
November – December 2017 EXHIBITION Anna Dumitriu: BioArt and Bacteria Special Exhibitions Gallery Until 18 March 2018 Explore the microbial world, antibiotics and technology through art. The...
View ArticleCall for symposia at ESHS 2018 from Outreach and Education Committee
The Outreach and Education Committee (OEC) of the BSHS would like to extend a particular invitation for symposia at the European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference 2018. The...
View ArticleBSHS Engagement Fellow – The Polar Museum – Climate Histories
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 13 December 2017 Shortlisted candidates to be interviewed via Skype on Wednesday 20 December 2017 Fellowship to be completed by: end June 2018 Fee payable to...
View ArticleOEC Project Grant: Celebrating 400th anniversary of Elias Ashmole
The BSHS Outreach and Education Committee were delighted to receive news of a project that was given one of our Project Grants this autumn. We’d like to extend our warm thanks to Caroline Goodson for...
View ArticleBSHS Engagement Fellow – George Marshall Medical Museum
Deadline for applications: 23 February 2018 Fellowship to be completed by: End September 2018 Fee payable to Fellow: £2000 George Marshall Medical Museum (GMMM), Worcester, is delighted to be hosting a...
View ArticleNominations invited for BSHS Pickstone Prize 2018
Nominations are invited for the British Society for the History of Science’s prestigious Pickstone Prize for 2018. The Prize aims to recognize pioneering works that advance the scholarly understanding...
View ArticleRemembering David Knight (1936-2018)
With deep regret we report the recent death of David Knight, former President of the British Society for the History of Science and editor of the journal. Eminent as a historian of chemistry, and...
View ArticleRegistration Open for Remembering James Petiver (1665-1718)
Remembering James Petiver (1665-1718) 26th April 2018 The Linnean Society of London Registration is open here. This day meeting marks the tercentenary of the death of James Petiver FRS, an important...
View ArticleAntiquarian Horological Society AGM (12-13 May, Keele University)
This year’s Antiquarian Horological Society annual meeting takes place on 12–13 May 2018 at Keele University in Staffordshire. The year 2018 will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Edward...
View ArticleSMG Journal Writing Prize – call for entries
The submission deadline for this year’s Science Museum Group journal writing prize is 1st March 2018. The prize aims to encourage writing and publication by early career scholars, and winners will...
View ArticleLinnean Society: Celebration of First Female Fellows
DAY MEETING 10:30–17:00 Wednesday 21 March 2018 Just over 100 years ago, the Linnean Society admitted 15 ground-breaking Fellows – all women. To coincide with its 230th anniversary, the Society will be...
View ArticleOEC Project Grants: next deadline 15th Feb 2018
The British Society for the History of Science Outreach and Education Committee offers grants of up to £200 to support education and outreach projects in the history of science. We have recently...
View ArticleCFP: Self-Fashioning Scientific Identities in the Long Nineteenth Century
Self-Fashioning Scientific Identities in the Long Nineteenth Century University of Leicester, 15th June 2018 Keynote: Dr Patricia Fara, University of Cambridge ‘You will I am sure on reflection,...
View ArticleBSHS Engagement Fellowship – Jamaican Natural Science collections at Bristol...
We are pleased to announce the opportunity for a current postgraduate student working in the history of science, technology and medicine, or a closely-related field, to work with the Curator of Natural...
View ArticlePatricia Fara on In Our Time
We are pleased to announce that Patricia Fara, President of the British Society for the History of Science and Director of Studies at Clare College, Cambridge will appear as a guest on In Our Time on...
View ArticleBook Launch: Rohan Deb Roy’s Malarial Subjects
There will be a roundtable to celebrate the launch of Rohan Deb Roy’s Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (Cambridge, 2017) on 26th February 2018 at the Royal...
View ArticleRegister before 28th February: BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2018
Registration for the British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 2018 closes on 28th February. Visit the University of Manchester estore to register now (£30/£20 PhD/Masters)....
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