Announcing the 9th Notes and Records Essay Award: Enter for your chance to win £500 and publication in the journal for the winning entry. Submission deadline: 28 February 2026https://royalsociety.org/journals/authors/early-career-researchers/notes-and-records-essay-award/

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Call for Papers open: www.ambix.org/remembering-...

We are hosting a one-day meeting to be held on Friday 10 April 2026 at the Maison Française d’Oxford in honor of William ‘Bill’ Hodson Brock (1936-2025)
Offers of papers + a short abstract related in some way to Brock’s work should be sent to Frank James (frank.james[at]ucl.ac.uk) by 30 November

The next SHAC on-line seminar will be given by Dr Francesca Antonelli (University of Bologna) who will present:
Family historians? Women and the construction of scientific memory, from Mme Lavoisier (1758-1836) to Lucie Laugier (1822-1900)
Accessible live on YouTube at:
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Call for entries: the Partington Prize www.ambix.org/partington-p...

The latest issue of Chemical Intelligence has been published and is available to read on our website via this link:

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The next on-line seminar of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry will be given by Dr Francesca Antonelli (University of Bologna) who will present:
Family historians? Women and the construction of scientific memory, from Mme Lavoisier (1758-1836) to Lucie Laugier (1822-1900)

The Science History Institute @sciencehistory.org is pleased to cohost the Fall 2025 meeting of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) October 16-17. Invited speakers will present papers for discussion on topics ranging from medieval medicine to modern climate science.

The next on-line seminar of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry will be given by Ellen Hausner (University of Oxford) who will present: Early modern alchemical characters: the case of Simon Forman (1552-1611)

2026 Partington Prize call for entries! The prize (£500) is awarded every three years for an original and unpublished essay the history of alchemy or chemistry to be exclusively published in the Society's journal, Ambix.
More info can be found here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The next on-line seminar will be given by Dr Christopher Halm (Deutsches Museum, Munich) who will present:

Escaping Earth, Sustaining the Moon: The 'Chemistry' Behind Public Narratives of Lunar Habitation and Cosmic Age

This will be live on Thursday, 27 March beginning at 5.00pm (London time).

The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry is ninety years old! The Edited Collection 'Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry' has made 15 pivotal Ambix articles available #OpenAccess through 2025:
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The winter edition of Chemical Intelligence is now available on the SHAC web site: www.ambix.org/chemical-int...

The next on-line seminar will be given by Dr Christopher Halm (Deutsches Museum, Munich) who will present:
Escaping Earth, Sustaining the Moon: The 'Chemistry' Behind Public Narratives of Lunar Habitation and Cosmic Age

The SHAC 2025 Award Scheme is now open!

2 types of awards being offered are:
Support for research into the history of chemistry or history of alchemy by both new and independent scholars.
Support for Subject Development in hist chem or hist alchemy.

Closing date for applications: 31 May 2025

Call for Papers on 'Visita Interiora: Reimagining Allegory in the Alchemical Tradition' to be held 16–17 June 2025 in Venice at the Palazzo Giustinian Lolin (University of Warwick Venice Centre) warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Final call for the SHAC Award Scheme for the 14th International Conference on the History of Chemistry in Valencia : Apply by 28 February

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The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) is holding its Spring Meeting, which will also mark its 90th Anniversary, in person on Saturday 29 March 2025 at University College London (LG04, 26 Bedford Way).