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Published for The British Society for the History of Science. This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than thirty years. It is also used extensively by historians and scholars in related fields. A substantial book review section is a central feature. There are four issues a year, comprising an annual volume of over 600 pages.
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BJHS and BJHS Themes Blogs
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The Society of Astrologers (c.1647-1684): Promoting Astrology in Church and in the Pub
- 29 March 2021,
- People facing plague and quarantine in early modern Europe also turned to astrologers. But rather than being chastised for supporting a ‘pseudoscience’, these...
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When Life Interrupts Science: Precarity, Pranks, and Discipline at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
- 24 March 2021,
- ...the observatory staff, the largest portion of whom were adolescent boys hired to do computational work, had to be managed too. Airy worked hard to deskill...
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A Quiet Landmark in Biology: How Pus from Discarded Bandages led to DNA
- 23 March 2021,
- Almost a century before Watson and Crick, Miescher had been working in the freezing cold former kitchen of Tübingen Castle that had now been converted into...
News – BSHS
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President’s Newsletter: April 2021
- 30 April 2021,
- Dear BSHS member, I write with news of BSHS’s latest activities, and to report back on Council’s most recent meeting, held just over a week ago. Our postgraduate...
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BSHS Engagement Fellowship 2021 (Deadline 23/04/2021)
- 01 April 2021,
- UK ANTARCTIC HERITAGE TRUST Fee payable to Fellow: £1,000 Deadline for applications: Friday 23 April Fellowship to be completed by: October 2021 HIDDEN STORIES...
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BSHS Online Conference 2021 (Deadline 03/05/2021)
- 25 March 2021,
- The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) invites session proposals for the first BSHS Virtual Conference. The virtual conference will take place...
History of Science on the Blog
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The Society of Astrologers (c.1647-1684): Promoting Astrology in Church and in the Pub
- 29 March 2021,
- People facing plague and quarantine in early modern Europe also turned to astrologers. But rather than being chastised for supporting a ‘pseudoscience’, these...
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When Life Interrupts Science: Precarity, Pranks, and Discipline at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
- 24 March 2021,
- ...the observatory staff, the largest portion of whom were adolescent boys hired to do computational work, had to be managed too. Airy worked hard to deskill...
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A Quiet Landmark in Biology: How Pus from Discarded Bandages led to DNA
- 23 March 2021,
- Almost a century before Watson and Crick, Miescher had been working in the freezing cold former kitchen of Tübingen Castle that had now been converted into...
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