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Graeme Gooday
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Historian of Science & Technology, University of Leeds. Intermittent singer & viola player (and a secretly disreputable blues pianist).
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It's our regular Monday announcement... New podcast episode!

Graeme Gooday explores the history of the physical sciences 150 years ago, and why they were core subjects first taught at the Yorkshire College of Science #histsci #skystorians #chemistry #physics

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1.8 - Physical Sciences with Graeme
The Science of 1875 · Episode
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April 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Collaborative PhD history of science/technology studentship now available at University of Leeds on the marvellous Caroline Haslett and her international networks wrocah.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
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February 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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An inspirational talk from Dame Julia King for our difficult times.
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Together in Electric Dreams: Tackling Climate Change
YouTube video by IET
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January 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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I fear there is deep truth here.
January 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
November 27, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Fantastic afternoon and a huge thank you to Dr Katie Carpenter & Professor Graeme Gooday from @universityofleeds.bsky.social @hpsleeds.bsky.social who came to speak to Selby College Engineering & Electrical Installation Students about the history of women in engineering.
November 18, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Meditations on perpetual motion machines and sustainable energy (& inescapable thermodynamics…) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
The monster mechanical delusion: nineteenth-century controversies concerning perpetual motion - IOPscienceSearch
The monster mechanical delusion: nineteenth-century controversies concerning perpetual motion, Graeme Gooday
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November 15, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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#OTD 12 November 1924 a meeting in a drawing room attended by leading figures in the UK's electrical world was inspired by Mrs Mabel Matthews' idea to form the Electrical Association for Women. The event was commemorated on EAW's 40th anniversary #teatowels in 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electri...
November 12, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Published today to mark centenary of the Electrical Association for Women’s foundation, 12 November 1924! Commissioned by Nature Physics Reviews editor, Ankita Anirban, who was wonderfully enthusiastic about EAW history at this year’s BSHS annual conference in Aberystwyth rdcu.be/dZTVy
How promoting domestic electricity became physics outreach
Nature Reviews Physics - On the centenary of the founding of the Electrical Association for Women , three historians of science and technology reflect on the impact of bringing physics literacy...
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November 12, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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Tomorrow, 12 Nov, @graemegooday.bsky.social is leading the centenary celebrations of the Electrical Association for Women and @kingtekkers.bsky.social is speaking at the @museumsassociation.bsky.social conference. It’s all happening! #histsci
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November 11, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Square saucepans with diagonal handles at Bristol’s Stradling Collection (borrowed from the local Electricity Museum). Why? Apparently developed in 1930s by the Electrical Association for Women for efficient use of square electric hot plates!
November 10, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Great to see this in Bristol: one of many markers for centenary of UK’s Electrical Association for Women. stradlingcollection.org/all-electric...
Electricity: Emancipating Women | The Stradling Collection
The All-Electric House 19 October - 16 November This exhibition is our contribution to the centenary celebration of the founding of the Electrical Association for Women (EAW) in conjunction with the w...
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November 9, 2024 at 8:31 PM