Announcing the 9th Notes and Records Essay Award Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the history of science, technology and medicine. Our Essay Award is open to researchers from the above fields who have completed a postgraduate degree within the last five years. Enter for your chance to win £500 and publication in the journal for the winning entry. Submission deadline: 28 February 2026 - visit Notes and Records Essay Award | Royal Society

Rose, Edwin D.. Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. xii + 395 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780822948513.$45.00 (paper), ISBN 9780822967705. Reviewed by Nathan Cornish (University of Southampton, Exeter University, Kew Gardens) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (October, 2025) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

All seminars will take place in 17 Blenheim Terrace SR 2 (G.04) – the ground floor IDEA seminar room. (Find a campus map here). Online access will be via MS Teams; a link will be shared in at…

This year's prestigious Haldane lecture (click) will be delivered by Greg Radick. The JBS Haldane Lecture recognises an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an interested lay audience.  This speaker will have a flair for conveying the relevance and excitement of recent advances in genetics in an informative and engaging way.  The annual open lecture will be delivered on a topic, and in a place, agreed with the Genetics Society.  In addition to delivering the Lecture, the recipient will receive an honorarium of £1000 and a three-year membership of the Society.

We are pleased to announce the Genetics Society Anniversary Day, which will be held on 25th June 2025. This event will celebrate several of our prize winners and the summer students we have supported....

Now that the dust has settled on this year's British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Postgraduate Conference, held here at the University of Leeds by our postgraduate community from 25-26 April, we are delighted to share reflections from a couple of our conference attendees. Camden Berry, current MSc student at the University of Oxford writes: "I had such a fantastic time at the BSHS Postgraduate Conference!

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Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye­ opening topics and explore the...

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We are thrilled that this year's BSHS Postgraduate conference will take place at the University of Leeds over two days, on the 25th and 26th April, 2025. The theme for this year's conference will be Interdisciplinarity in the History of Science.  The BSHS brings together annually HPS postgraduate students the world over for an opportunity to network and present in a conference setting.

The Science of 1875 · Episode

This resource was produced by academics from the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, where we have our Museum filled with artefacts that tell a stories about the H

The Centre for History & Philosophy of Science is offering two fully-funded PhD scholarships to support research in the history of science and gender, and the history of trust in meteorology. The two projects – supported by Collaborative Doctoral Awards from the Arts & Humanities Research Council – will offer supervision through project partners including the Royal Society and Cambridge University Library…