Whewell’s Gazette
Your weekly digest of all the best of
Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 3, Volume #13
Monday 14 November 2016
EDITORIAL:
To be perfectly honest, given the events of the last week I didn’t see any point in continuing with this. It seems rather futile to publish a weekly #histSTM links list when the most powerful country in the world have just elected a crypto-fascist as their next president. But like that mythical orchestra on the Titanic, Whewell’s Gazette will in the face of disaster continue to bring you all of the histories of science, technology and medicine produced in the Internet over the last seven days.
Only a very small number of the elements, the building blocks of all matter, are named after scientist but two of these are named after women Curium named after Marie Curie and Meitnerium named after Lise Meitner. By a strange twist of fate both of them were born on 7th November, Curie in 1867 and Meitner in 1878.
Both of these remarkable women carved out scientific careers in a time when it was still extremely difficult for women to get an advanced education let alone one in the sciences. Both of them fought against prejudices based on their sex and in Meitner’s case her religion, she was Jewish. However despite all of the problems they faced both succeeded in establishing themselves as major scientific figures in the twentieth century.
Interestingly both of them worked on the boundary between chemistry and physics and both made major contributions to the development of the atomic age in which we now find ourselves. Curie in that she isolated and identified previously unknown radioactive elements and she, in fact, coined the term radioactivity. Meitner explained the mechanism of nuclear fission. In another interesting parallel both women worked in X-ray units during the First World War.
Both women received much recognition and many honours for their work, although only Curie received the Nobel Prize, and is the only person to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific disciplines, physics and chemistry.
Quotes of the week:
“Ignoring a historian about history is like ignoring a mechanic about an engine fault. You can do it, but you aren’t gonna like the result” – Chris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft)
Brexiteer: We can go it alone! We are the country of Newton, Nightingale, Austen, Crick, Hawking, Brunel.
Also: we don’t like experts – Prof Patrick McGhee (@ProfMcGhee)
“The dispute over the correct plural of “referendum” will tear our society apart.
This is why there *must never* be another referendum” – Law and Policy (@Law_and_policy)
“If I keep writing ‘shitstory’, does this mean that my fingers are tired or is someone trying to tell me something?” – Matt Smith (@mpcsmith)
“..the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear” – Antonio Gramsci h/t @telescoper
“As Prince might have said: “…let’s party like it’s 1933…”” – Elliott Sharp (@_ElliottSharp)
“An old man once told me, “Son, if you ever want to REALLY know history, study the trade routes”” – Hugh MacLeod (@hughcards)
Birthdays of the Week:
Lise Meitner born 7 November 1878
Lise Meitner in 1906
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Unsung? I hardly think so.
brainpickings: How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and was Denied the Nobel Prize
AIP: Lise Meitner
AHF: Lise Meitner
brainpickings: Happy Birthday, Lise Meitner: The Pioneering Physicist’s Only Direct Discussion of Gender in Science
Marie Curie born 7 November 1867
Marie Curie 1903 Nobel Prize portrait
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Marie Curie – Truly an Extraordinary Woman
175 Faces of Chemistry: Marie Curie
Nobelprize.org: Marie Curie – Biographical
Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911
AHF: Marie Curie
History Extra: Life of the Week: Marie Curie
Youtube: Marie Curie – Mini Biography
Benjamin Banneker born 10 November 1731
Woodcut portrait of Benjamin Bannaker (Banneker) in title page of a Baltimore edition of his 1795 Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Youtube: African American Mathematician Benjamin Banneker
biography.com: Benjamin Banneker
bnl.com: Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)
encyclopedia.com: Benjamin Banneker
Yovisto: The Almanachs of Benjamin Banneker
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Martianus Capella’s geo-heliocentric astronomical model
AHF: Philip Morrison
A Clerk of Oxford: ‘after that comes Winter’s Day’
Yovisto: Edmond Halley besides the Eponymous Comet
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Edmond Halley
Yovisto: C.V. Raman and the Raman Effect
AHF: Vera Kistiakoesky
Yovisto: Hermann Weyl – between Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Bevis
AIP: Hugh Everett
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Vesto Slipher
ESA: Tree Planting
Muslim Heritage: Glances on Calendars and Almanacs in the Islamic Civilization
The image shows the phases of the moon in a month. This is a page taken form a calendar prepared by Sayyid Ahmed b. Mustafa Al-La’li, who presented this calendar to the Sultan Selim II in 1566. Source: The courtesy of Sam Fogg – London.
Encyclopaedia Britannica: John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
AHF: Kenneth D. Nichols
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Atlas Obscura: The 1915 Map That Helped All Women Get the Vote
Osher Map Library: Mapping the Iroquois and the Disputed Ohio Valley in 1755
Lewis Evans, Map of the Middle British Colonies (OS-1755-11)
CIA: The Mapmsaker’s Craft: A History of Cartography at CIA
Google Arts and Crafts: Cosmology to Cartography – Sacred Maps from the Indian Subcontinent
British Library: Maps and views blog: Colouring maps for adults
Royal Museums Greenwich: Captain Robert Falcon Scott
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Yovisto: Cesare Lombroso – The Father of Criminology
Past Medical History: Spanish Flu: The Deadliest Pandemic in History
For the Wyn: Solidify us unto Thy charity: the medicinal and liturgical uses of cheese
Academia: Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany
The Scientist: The Body Electric, 1840s
Diseases of Modern Life: Worked to the Point of Madness
The New York Times: Is the Plague Still Alive in Musty 14th-Century Tomes?
The Recipes Project: ‘take The Spigs of Oak Trees’: Medicinal Recipes and Tree Ingredients
Elizabeth Grey, A Choice Manuall. Frontispiece of 1671 edition.
Scientific American: Finding Her Nerve
CSTMC: Collection Online: X-ray machine
Pen and Pension: The Georgian and Regency Home Medicine Chest
Mosaic: The engineer who fixed his own heart
Thomas Morris: The spear and the eucalyptus tree
The University of Glasgow Story: Dame Anne Louise McIlroy
Anne Louise McIlroy
O Can You See?: Heart valves galore, to Tin Man’s delight
Yovisto: Ephraim McDowell – the Father of Abdominal Surgery
History of War: Somme 1916: How battlefield surgeons treated shellshock, shrapnel and gas
Thomas Morris: The soldier operated on himself
Yovisto: Sir James Young Simpson and the Chloroform
The Scotsman: The drug-induced Edinburgh dinner parties that revolutionised medicine
The effects of liquid chloroform on Simpson and his friends. PIC Wellcome Library, London/Creative Commons.
Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-drug-induced-edinburgh-dinner-parties-that-revolutionised-medicine-1-4280383
All Things Georgian: 1775 Influenza Epidemic
Providenta: The San Quentin Sex Gland Experiments
BBC Radio 4: Home Front: 9 Astonishing Facts About Nursing in WWI
Quinine & More: Arsenic, Syphilis and Malaria
Thomas Morris: Cured by a lightning bolt
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Cornelis Drebble
The Atlantic: The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board System
Woodpeckings: The Dalziel Archive, Victorian Print Culture and Wood Engravings
Conciatore: Neri’s other Rubino Glass
mountvernon.org: Spyglass
Smithsonian.com: Diver Found Possible Inactive 1950 Nuke Off the Coast of British Columbia
ENIAC Programmers Project: Website
Top, from left to right: Kathy Kleiman, Jean Bartik, Marlyn Meltzer, Kay Antonelli Bottom: Betty Holberton
Yovisto: French Aviation Pioneer Robert Esnault-Pelterie
The Public Domain Review: “Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination
New Historian: Findings Tip the Scale to Earhart Surviving Plane Crash
The New York Times: ‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found
Yovisto: Jacques Charles and the Hydrogen Balloon
British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Automata for the Peopl: Greek Scientific Manuscripts Online
Hydraulic musical organ powered by a hand-pump from Hero’s Pneumatika. Burney MS 108, f. 60v. Italy, N. (Venice?), 1st quarter of the 16th century.
Wendy Carlos: The Eltro Mark II “Information Rate Changer”
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Yovisto: William Stukeley and the Mystery of Stonehenge
Tetrapod Zoology: The Natural History Museum at South Kensington
The Dispersal of Darwin: Biologist Edwin Grant Conkin and the idea of the religious direction of human evolution in the early 1920s
The Dispersal of Darwin: A Historical Taxonomy of Origin of Species and Its Relevance to the Historiography of Evolutionary Thought
TrowelBlazers: Raising Horizons: Bedrocks of Equality
Yovisto: Robert Morrison and the Classification of plants
Origins: Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today
In 1577, Flemish artist Jan Wierix engraved Three Beached Whales, which depicts three stranded sperm whales.
Smithsonian.com: Fossilized Dinos Are Bones Turned to Stone – But Sometimes, Part of the Original Dino Survives
Niche: The Making of Pure Michigan
The Recipes Blog: The Bog Body Shop: A Prehistory of Personal Grooming
Yovisto: Salim Ali – the Birdman of India
CHEMISTRY:
The New York Times: John D. Roberts Dies at 98; He Revolutionized the Field of Organic Chemistry
John D. Roberts at M.I.T. in 1947. He played a crucial role in the explosive growth of physical organic chemistry, a field that studies the reactivity of biological compounds. Credit M.I.T.
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
The Guardian: My best science lesson: why history is essential to engage students
J D Davies: Noah’s Archive
The Scholarly Kitchen: Does Democracy Need Footnotes?
Anthropologie & Santé: 12 2016 : Incertitude médicale, prise de décision et accompagnement en fin de vie Table of Contents
Meta Science: Volume 25, Issue 3 Table of Contents
The Dispersal of Darwin: Kickstarter: Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Picture Book Adaption
Auxiliary Hypothesis: Causation in Scientific Methods – Rani Lill Anjum
RSVP: Michael Wolff
Lady Science: Pitching Lady Science
Nursing Clio: If you have an interest in writing about the history of health/gender/race topics, please email us with a pitch – nursingclio@gmail.com.
John Stewart: Teaching Digital History Research Methods w/OU Create
Civil Service Quarterly Blog: The pictorial history of science and engineering in government
Female role models in science and engineering
Nature: What scientists should focus on — and fear — under Trump
The New York Times: In London, Blue Plaques Mark the Noted and Notorious
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: The Paracelsans
Wellcome Library: The horoscope of Iskandar Sultan
L0071319 Horoscope of Prince Iskandar.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
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Horoscope of Prince Iskandar, grandson of Tamerlane, the Turkman Mongol conqueror. This horoscope shows the position of the heavens at the moment of Iskandar’s birth on 25th April 1384.
This is a fly leaf from the personal horoscope of Iskandar Sultan (died 1415), grandson of Timur, who ruled the province of Farsin, Iran. He is best known for his early military career and his patronage of the arts and sciences.
Apart from being a horoscope, this manuscript is an exquisite work of art and an exemplary production of the royal kitabkhana ‘publishing house’ or ‘workshop’. The manuscript of 1411 is lavishly illustrated and reflects the efforts of a whole range of specialists: astronomers (among them Imad ad-Din Mahmud al- Kashi), illuminators, gilders, calligraphers and craftsmen, and specialists in paper-making.
The manuscript was bought in Iran in 1794 by John H. Harrington, who had started his career as a clerk in the East India Company. In 1932, it was auctioned at Sotheby’s and bought for £6/15d by Sir Henry Wellcome who added it to his collection of Oriental books and manuscripts.
813/1411 Wellcome MS Persian 474
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Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Guardian: Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose
The Guardian: Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time – an exquisite story of scandalous subterfuge
Deception of breathtaking proportions … Dr James Barry. Photograph: Oneworld Publications
The New York History Blog: New Book Traces History of NYC Traffic Signals
Borneo Post Online: Wallace’s perceptions of James Brooke
Popular Science: Why Icebergs Float – Andrew Morris
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany
Historiens de la santé: The Science of Sympathy: Moralty, Evolution, and Victorian Civilisation
Historiens de la santé: Scribonius Largus Compositions médicales
Harvard University Press: The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History
lessen.amazon.com: Behind Insulin: The Life and Legacy of Doctor Peter Joseph Moloney
Historiens de la santé: Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua
Historiens de la santé: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq on His Galen Translations
Historiens de la santé: Sir Charles Bell: His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy
ART & EXHIBITIONS:
brainpickings: Your Body Is a Space That Sees: Artist Lia Halloran’s Stunning Cyanotype Tribute to Women in Astronomy
Leavitt Crater
The Guardian: Albrecht Dürer’s The Rhinoceros: the most influential animal picture ever?
Science Comma: We Have Never Been Silent
Princeton University Art Museum: Transcient Effects
Eleanor Cook: An Art Students Experience of an Anatomy Dissection Room
The Guardian: Animality review – a cacophonous gathering of art’s jungle VIPs
The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour
TLS: A century in maps
Teylers Museum: Bloemenpracht 25 July 2016–08 January 2017
H.J. Elwes, A monograph of the genus Lilium, z.p., 1880
British Library: Maps of the 20th Century: Drawing the Line 4 November 2016–1 March 2017
WAGM TV: Acadian Archives exhibit features more than 40 maps of Acadian Heritage
Causway Coast Community: County Antrim adventurer’s royal maps will graphically outline history
The New York Times: A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock
Bradbury Science Museum: Fifty years of nuclear safeguards
Cambridge Digital Library: Browse our collections: Curious Objects
Leek Post & Times: Mary A Blagg the Cheadle Astronomer honoured at Cheadle Discovery Centre exhibition
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
BBC News: William Heath Robinson museum set to open
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
Dr Alum Withey: Announcing… ‘The Age of the Beard’
The Arctic Journal: Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography
University of Kent: Studio 3 Gallery: Curio: Sites of Wonder 30 September–2 December 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
The Straits Times: M.C.Escher’s optical illusion art at ArtScience Museum
University of Bangor: The Art of Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms from the Abyss
The Foundling Museum: Feeding the 400 23 September 2016–08 January 2017
The Getty Research Institute: The Art of Alchemy 11 October 2016–12 February 2017
Alchemists Revealing Secrets from the Book of Seven Seals, The Ripley Scroll (detail), ca. 1700. 950053
Osher Map Museum: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities 29 September 2016–11 March 2017
The Huntingdon: Gardens, Art, & Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints 17 September 2016–9 January 2017
Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September 2016–22 January 2017
Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art: Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography 4 October 2016–15 January 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: the asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
Yale News: Yale marks 175th anniversary of Arabic and Sanskrit studies with exhibit, public events
Université de Lausanne: Musée de physique de Lausanne : brève visite virtuelle
Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990
blog.umass.edu: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
The Hunterian: Tracking Animals 7 April–12 February 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
COMING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September–22 January 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September –16 December 2016
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
University of Nottingham: Manuscripts and Special Collections: Weston Gallery Exhibition: Francis Willughby (1635–1672) A Natural Historian and His Collections 19 August–4 December 2016
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision
Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016
Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016
Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018
Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017
AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016
Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Science Museum: Robots
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Science Museum: Making the Modern World
Science Museum: Flight
Science Museum: Exploring Space
Science Museum: Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016
Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic 1 August–31 December 2016
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
COMING SOON: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea: Royal Collection: Leonardo da Vinci 14 October 2016–6 January 2017
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–2 July 2017
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–1 May 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge 26 September 2016–30 June 2017
National Maritime Museum: Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity 3 November 2016–17 April 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–21 May 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Perisphere Theater: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn 30 November–11 December 2016
Perisphere Salon: Spotlight on Copenhagen 4 December 2016
The Royal Insitution: Resurrecting the Braggs: The newly digitised Bragg Film Archive
IMBd: The Current War in Pre-production
Variety: The Current War
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre: Blackeyed Theatre: Frankenstein 15–16 November 2016
Eastbourne Theatres: Frankenstein 19 November 2016
Stantonbury Theatre: Dr Faustus 17 November 2016
Stantonbury Theatre: Frankenstein 22 November 2016
Mercury Theatre: Jekyll & Hyde 18–28 January 2017
Stockport Garrick Theatre: Copenhagenn 11–14 January 2017
EVENTS:
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Medical Tourism in Victorian Edinburgh 7 December 2016
Senate House, London: Lecture: Conceiving Histories 23 November 2016
Truman State University: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table
The Linnean Society: Lecture: Founder’s Day – The Invention of Nature 2 December 2016
King’s College London: Animal History Research Group – Network Launch Event 16 November 2016
IAS: Lecture: Claude E. Shannon 16 November 2016
University of Manchester: CHSTM Open Days and Information Service 23 November 2016
Wellcome Library: History of Psychiatry & Mental Health: Beyond the Asylum Ediathon 15 November 2016
Society of Antiquaries of London: Lecture: Motherboards and Motherloads: The Evolving Excavation of the Digital Age 22 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
University of Manchester: Events at Central Library: Healing Histories – An Exhibition of Medical Marvels 12 December 2016
Society of Antiquities of London: Fourth Gerard Turner Memorial Lecture of the Scientific Instrument Society: Professor Emilie Savage-Smith “Of Making Globes There Seems No End” 25 November 2016
Soho House Birmingham: Talk: Lunatick Astronomy 17 November 2016
University of Leicester: Science and the Victorian Public 18 November 2016
V&A: The Gilbert Lecture 2016: Paula Findlen 30 November 2016
University of Oxford: Hakluyt Society: Lecture: Voyages, Traffiques, Discoveries: Three Stories from the Age of Exploration 25 November 2016
University of Leicester: Come and celebrate the launch of three new books by Professors Gowan Dawson and Joanne Shattock, and Dr. Geoffrey Belknap 23 November 2016
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge: H.G: Wells Lunchtime Readings 4, 11, 18, 25 November 2016
Museum for the History of Science, Oxford: Don’t panic! Promises and threats of science and technology 17 November 2016
University of Leicester: Attenborough Arts Centre: Science and the Victorian public 18 November 2016
The Royal Society of Medicine: Chris Renwick: William Bynum Lecture 2016: Social Biology and Progressive Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain 30 November 2016
History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 2016
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Norman Rockwell Perpetual Motion 1920
TELEVISION:
BBC Four: Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved The NHS 24 November
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Trabant 601 Original Produktions-Film DEFA
Youtube: Science of the Human Past: Kyle Harper: Nature Did It
RADIO & PODCASTS:
soundcloud: Mosaic Science Podcast: How the zebra got its stripes, with Alan Turing
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Oxford: TORCH: CfP: Symposium: Doctor-Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor Patient Relationship 24 March 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016 Deadline 17 March 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of North Caroline: CfP: Carolina Conference for Romance Studies: Dia.gnosis 30 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
British Library: What’s on: Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line – Workshops 14 November 2016–1 March 2017
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
Università Delgi Studi di Udine: EmoBookTrade: Kick-off Conference 30 November 2016
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
Cité de la Santé, Toulouse: Conférence: Histoire de la prévention du VIH 28 novembre 2016
Harvard University: CfP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art 6–8 April 2017 Deadline 14 December 2016
University of Kassel: Workshop: Representing scientific results: Forms of knowledge 18–19 November 2016
University of Southampton: CfP: Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference 24–26 March 2017 Deadline 16 December 2016
Amphithéâtre du Département – Bâtiment “Le 89”, Auxerre: Journée d’étude Histoire, archives et patrimoine hospitaliers 18 novembre 2016
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences: Call for Contribution: Histories of Human Regeneration Deadline 30 November 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Émilie du Châtelet: 310th Anniversary 18–19 November 2016
CHF: Oral History Training Institute 2017 9-13 January
University of Leeds: The Past, Present and Future of Integrated HPS: An International Postgraduate Forum 13-14 January 2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Durham University: Conference: CfP: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017 Deadline 25 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
TURRIANO: ICOHTEC BOOK PRIZE
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017
IHPS Leeds: CfP: The First International IHPS Postgraduate Forum 13–14 January 2017 Deadline 7 November 2016
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: Scientia 2017 19–22 April 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals
BSHS: Dingle Prize 2017: The British Society for the History of Science invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
The Ordered Universe Project: Being Human Festival 2016 Medieval Time Reckoning and the Dating of Easter 18 November 2016 Heaven’s Above! – Interactive Exhibition 19 November 2016
University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800
University of Leeds: CfP: The First International IHPS Postgraduate Forum
Indianna University: CfP: Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century 29–30 March 2017
University of Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences: Conference: Leibniz and the Sciences 14–16 November 2016
University of Illinois: Graduate STS workshop: CfP: Interdisciplinary Encounters: Exploring Knowledge-Making Across Boundaries 10–11 March 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Conference: Diagrammatic: Beyond Inscription 2–3 December 2016
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin: Conference: Working on Things: On the Social, Political, and Economic History of Collected Objects 2121 November 2016
Hakluyt Society: CfP: Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2017
Science Museum: Research Seminar Series Autumn 2016
H-Material-Culture: CfP. Kitchen and Kitchen Gardens in Britain and Europe, 1500–1950
University of Bristol: CfP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 6–8 April 2017
University of Cambridge: Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England 26 November 2016
Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware: CfP: Imagined Forms: Modeling and Material Culture 17–18 November 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017
University of Cambridge: Department of History and Philosophy of Science: History of Medicine Seminars Michaelmas Term 2016
Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt University, Berlin: Conference: On the epistemic Dimension of Color in the Sciences 17–18 November 2016
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Autumn 2016
Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2016
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England 25 November 2016
Erasmus University Rotterdam: CfP: Fourth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science
University of Toronto: CfP: CSHPS–SCHPS Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
BSHS: CfP: BSHS Postgraduate Conference 5–7 April 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK: CfP: Conference: BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures 6–10 July 2017 Deadline: 1 November 2016
Dublin City University: HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference: Programme: 11–12 November 2016
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI): The Past, Present and Future of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies 29 November 2016
Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities: Conference: Philosophy and History of Open Science 30 November–1 December 2016
St Anne’s College, Oxford: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2016
UCL: STS: Work in Progress Seminars
SCHCT: 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation
University of Exeter: EPSA 17: CfP: The Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association 6-9 September 2017 Deadline 5 January 2017
Museums ETC Magazine: CfP: Feminism and Museums Deadline 21 November 2016
University of Kiel: CfP: 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX) 6–12 August 2017: Asian Medicines: Encounters, Translations and Transformations Deadline 1 November 2016
‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest: Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH): CfP: The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health 30 August-2 September 2017 Deadline 1 January 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: CfP: From Far and Wide: The Next 150 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Museo de América, Madrid: Symposium: CfP: Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge 5–7 April 2017
Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’
BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018
BSHS: The BSHS invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize
Edinburgh Napier University: American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Lecture: ‘What, if anything, makes knowledge an improvement over information?’ 30 November 2016
University of Padua: CfP: Scientiae 2017 19–22 April 2017
edX: University of Newcastle Australia: Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
BSHS: Conference: A History of the Moon St Cross College, Oxford 19 November 2016
Dublin City University: HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference 11–12 November 2016
Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library: Symposium: CfP: Cold War Geographies 16 January 2017 Deadline 27 November 2016
University of Manchester: CHSTM Seminars Autumn/Winter 2016
University of St Andrews: CfP: Conference: Encountering the Material Medieval 19–20 January 2017
Wellcome Library: History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series 2016–17
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
IHR: Library Exhibition Curation Competition (ECR)
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
Oxford Brookes University: Conference: Maritime Masculinities 1815–1940 19–20 December 2016
University of Durham: CfP: Conference: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017
Journal of Science Communication: CfP: Special Issue: History of Science Communication Deadline 12 December 2016
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
The Linnean Society: What should be in your Digital Toolbox?
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Fall 2016
BSHS: The Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
University of Swansea: CfP: Conference: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016 Deadline 1 October 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
Rice University, Houston: CfP: Southern Forum on Agriculture, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) 10–11 February 2017 Deadline 1 November 2016
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
Penn Museum: Philadelphia: Animals in the Archives Symposium 27-28 October 2016
IEEE: International Early Engines Conference: Papers: May 2017
Digital History Seminar: Autumn & Winter Term 2016–2017
National University: 13th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place: CfP: “Nightmare Spaces/Uncanny Places” 28–30 April 2017 Deadline 8 February 2017
Palgrave MacMillan: Call for chapter contributors: Scientific Studies of Dreams in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
University of York: CfP: The Medieval Brain 10–11 March 2017
University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series 2016/17
San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain): CfP: Workshop: Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Agonising Object in Physics and Culture 30–31 March 2017
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
The Maintainers: CfP: Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Order 6–8 April 2017
University of Sydney: CfP: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
University of Groningen: CfP: Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017
Institut Pasteur de Lille: Conférences d’histoire de la médecine de Lille Programme des conférences 2016 – 2017
University of Swansea: CFP: Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe: 10th Anniversary Meeting: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
University of Toronto Press: CfP: Edited Collection: Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past and Present
Techne: CFP: Special Issue on Philosophy of Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene
GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017
Coastal Carolina University: CfP: SAHMS Nineteenth Annual Meeting 16–18 March 2017 Deadline 31 October 2016
l’Abbaye de Hambye (près d’Avranches): 15e réunion d’histoire de la santé 10 septembre 2016
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
The Hakluyt Society Blog: Hakluyt@400 Quartercenteneary programme Autumn 2016
University of Bristol: CfP: Writing Remains: In Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature 20 January 2017
RSA: Call for Submissions: Picturing Death 1200–1600 (Edited Volume)
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo: ICMS: CfP: Before and After 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death 11–14 May 2017
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historical Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 Deadline: 28 October 2016
University of York: CfP: Workshop: The Medieval Brain 10-11 March 2017
Birkbeck: University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
York Medical Society: CfP: “First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies 1600–1800 10 November 2016
ICHST 2017 Rio: CfP: XXXVI Symposium of the Scientific Instruments Commission Deadline 25 November 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: AHRC Funded Research Network Project: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and the Remaking of the Indo-Pacific World
University of Pittsburgh: Center for Philosophy of Science 57th Annual Lecture Series 2016–17
Medieval Institute Publications: Call for proposals: History and Cultures of Food 14th–18th Centuries New Series
ICM Leeds 2017: CfP: Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West Deadline 9 September 2016
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize
BSHS: The 2016 Big Draw Festival: STEAM Powered: From STEM to STEAM 1–31 October 2016
Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016
IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Second CfP: Teaching mathematics in the early modern period
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc
Mahon/Maó (Menorca): 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation: CFP: Living in Emergency: humanitarianism and medicine 18–20 May 2017
Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017
Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017
Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016
CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017
American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants
The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016
HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences
Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture, Paris: Appel à communications: “L’Homme dans le monde de l’incertitude. Méthodologie de la cognition culturelle et historique”. Colloque international pour le 120e anniversaire de la naissance de Lev Vygotsky 13 octobre 2016
University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017
IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016
Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017
JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques
BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series
Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017
Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas
HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize
ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016
Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017
Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science
University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context
ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016
Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP: “Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thought Styles and Thought Collectives – Translations and Receptions” Deadline 30 August 2016
HPDST: 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars
BSHS: Great Exhibitions Competition 2016
Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities
University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize
Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference
University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »
Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas
BSHS: Prizes
Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars
University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:
Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Rio de Janeiro, 23-29 July 2017): CfP: Blood, Food, and Climate: Historical Relationships Between Physiology, Race, Nation-Building, and Colonialism/Globalization
Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST): Invites submissions for the fourth DHST Prize for Young Scholars, to be presented in 2017.
Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016
LOOKING FOR WORK:
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Research Project Administrator (Fixed Term)
Smithsonian Institution: Museum Curator (History of Modern Science)
Royal Armouries: Director of Collections
The Foundling Museum: Curator: Exhibitions & Displays
KU Leuven: Collectie–Expert Boekgeschiedenis
Science Museum Group: Robots Engagement Volunteer
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