Dr. Edwin Rose, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in HPS at Leeds has been featured in a new article in the Smithsonian Magazine, "Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand’s Plants With Captain Cook’s Crew." Take a look at the article here.

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; get in touch with e.clarke@leeds.ac.uk for a link. All talks run from 3.30-5pm, but we will meet in the room for tea/coffee from 3pm. All are welcome and postgraduate students are strongly encouraged to attend.

All WIPs run from 12-1 on Tuesdays, in the Botany House seminar room 1.03. WiP 2026 Semester 2 27th January– Tadhg Goodison, A tale of Two Almanacs- Meteorology in the world of London print culture Chair: Edwin 3rd February– Yuyou Wu, Reclaiming Realism for Models of the Free Energy Principle: A Perspectivist Account Chair: Harry 10 February – …

Harry Parker British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Harry Parker is principally a historian of modern Britain, with interests ranging across the cultural, intellectual, and environmental history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He completed his PhD at Cambridge, where he worked on the history of the social sciences, before moving to the Science Museum to work as a postdoc on a…

Call for Registration: At the Intersection of Pragmatism, Scientific Realism and Cognitive Science Date: January 20-21, 2026 Location: Seminar Room 2, IDEA Centre (17 Blenheim Terrace), University of Leeds We are pleased to announce a two-day workshop exploring themes at the intersection of pragmatism, realism, and perceptual and cognitive science. Overview: This workshop explores themes at the intersection of pragmatism, realism, and perceptual and cognitive science, inspired by Hasok Chang’s…

Our postdoc Elisabeth Yang and her fellow co-editors, Andrea Graus and Violeta Ruiz, are thrilled to see the final publication of our special issue of Osiris: The Histories of Science and Childhoods. Featured are articles written by an array of brilliant scholars! Stay tuned!

The annual meeting of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science is coming to Leeds! 21-23rd July There is a call for symposia here And call for abstracts here: Call for Abstracts The Call for is now open for papers at the British Society for Philosophy of Science 2026 Annual Conference in Leeds on 21st-23rd July 2026. Papers may be on a wide selection of topics within the philosophy of science (see list below) and should be suitable for presentation in 20 minutes, which will allow 10 minutes discussion.

Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of House 10, access through House 6), there will be a joint seminar of the Centre for HPS and the Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre-CHoP), exploring the history of scientific printing. 

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!