Congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the Hughes Prize 2025! Check out these four highly intriguing books from different corners of the history of STEM, all of them perfect reads for non-experts. Accessible to broader audiences, they will take you to unexpected places and times! 🧵

BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 Winner 🎉 Congratulations to Renée Bergland as the winner of the BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 for "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" A brilliant book opening 19th-c histSTEM to a broader public📖✨ www.bshs.org.uk/the-winner-o...

UK readers: if you want to buy a hardback HTVTUTTM at a paperback price, Amazon currently have it at a whopping 68% off. Worth it for the amazing dust-jacket alone:

Alongside the ‪@leverhulme.ac.uk, we invite postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. Application deadline is 5 November. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA

We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Lecture Series! 📣 We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅 1/3

Today's #histSTM lunchtime read: @aip.bsky.social's Anna Doel interviews @mattshindell.bsky.social (Curator of Planetary Sci. & @historyscience.bsky.social secretary) about the National Air & Space Museum's recent renovation. #histtech #museums #NASM 🗃️📜🚀🔭👩‍🚀 #Smithsonian #SpaceHistory #FuturesInSpace

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social. Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

Day 1 of the visit (Weds 17th) concludes with a guest lecture, at 5.30pm, at the Linklater Rooms, University of Aberdeen, by Prof. Matthew J. Smith (UCL), Director of the Centre for the Legacies of British Slavery. Places to attend in person are available and all welcome bit.ly/3IjbMVj 2/2

Check out the BSHM's - Gresham College joint Lecture! Prof. Caroline Ehrhardt (Université Paris 8) explores how maths endures through heritage, libraries & contexts. Wed 8 Oct, 18:00, Barnard’s Inn Hall & online. Free, register via Gresham College. 🗓️ www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/her...

The BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize celebrates outstanding public exhibitions. Open worldwide since 2012, it recognises both large and small exhibitions that creatively engage the public in HistSTEM topics. Check out our most recent winners! 🎉 www.bshs.org.uk/bshs-exhibit...

Thrilled with this news! And what an honour to be part of the curatorial team behind this exhibition

🎉 Congratulations to the joint winner of the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 (Large Exhibition Category): Measuring Difference @ Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. A bilingual exhibition showing Latin America as a space of scientific innovation, 🧵

🏆 Joint Winner of the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 (Large Exhibition): Breaking Ground @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Exploring fossils, palaeontology networks, and the hidden contributions of women, labourers and miners in 19th-century science. Learn more below 🧵

🎉 Congratulations to the winner of the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 (Small Exhibition): Capturing the Stars: The Untold History of Women at Yerkes Observatory @University of Chicago Library. An inspiring exhibition revealing the hidden contributions of women in astronomy from 1900–1933. 🧵

Exciting news from my colleagues @sciencehistory.org! This archive documents the early history of #MolecularBiology & efforts to determine the structure of #DNA. @matthewcobb.bsky.social provides an overview of its contents & significance in the thread below. #histSTM #histsci #histbio #Molbio 🗃️📜🧬

Happy to share the launch of the new, hybrid African History Seminar @ihr.bsky.social . Check out our fall program here: history.ac.uk/news-events/... If you're in London and want to present new research on Africa, get in touch!

Royal Historical Society vacancy: Events and Academic Engagement Officer bit.ly/3V8q5PC We look to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! @tealcartoons.bsky.social & I have a new kids' book out on Oct 14. DEAD ENDS is about medicine's biggest failures, and how failure often leads to scientific breakthroughs. You can preorder SIGNED copies from @mysteriousbookshop.com: shorturl.at/Ji1UEr

New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' '"your poore distressed suppliant": ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England', by Jonathan Willis bit.ly/4mM49G4 How can perspectives from the history of emotions inform understanding of 'madness' in early modern England? 1/2

For #BadPoetryDay, please appreciate one of William John MacQuorn Rankine's ditties, apparently written for the British Association meeting of 1864. Rankine was a pioneer of engineering science, whose "degrees Rankine" scale of temperature did not catch on. (Bonus Piazzi Smyth reference too.)

Opportunity | Become an MA rep for the south east of England 👤 We're looking to appoint one new member representative for England: South East. In order to ensure a good geographical spread, we're prioritising applications from the east of England in particular.

hopkinspress.bsky.social is at day 3 of the British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference in Cambridge @bshsnews.bsky.social Make sure you visit the exhibition & check out what's new in #history by the end of today!

#BSHS2025 Several @bshsnews.bsky.social colleagues in Cambridge asked me about my former student's radical science BSSRS research projects. Good news! There's a YouTube video of it here 👉 youtu.be/fH2rI--XfP8?...

@hopkinspress.bsky.social is at the British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference in Cambridge @bshsnews.bsky.social Make sure you visit the exhibition & check out what's new in #history today & tomorrow!

It's time! Our exciting evening with Sadiah Qureshi and Helen Macdonald is on. We're stoked!

Visit our unstaffed table at the British Society for the History of Science conference in Cambridge, UK to learn about our journals and grab some giveaways. Can't make it in person? Discover our history of science journals here: ow.ly/xIb250WkuPa @bshsnews.bsky.social

Working up to the presidential address by Prof Chiara Ambrosio. And reception afterwards!

One of the last presentations today before we come to our presidential address and the reception. Don't miss out on the presentations and guided tours tomorrow and on Thursday! conference.bshs.org.uk/programme #BSHS2025

Wending my way to Cambridge, and looking forward to this event. My past self is amazed at what time has made possible since my first time coming up as an undergraduate. Perhaps see you there.

Tomorrow & Thursday @hopkinspress.bsky.social will be in Cambridge for @bshsnews.bsky.social annual conference!

It has begun! Our annual conference went off with 6 panels and the first presentations - welcome to Cambridge!

TOMORROW in Cambridge! Don’t miss Sadiah Qureshi live, sharing insight on memory, knowledge & empire from her new book "Vanished". With an introduction by Helen Macdonald 📍 David Attenborough Building | 6–10pm 🎟 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053... #PublicLecture #histSTEM #BSHS2025

Just one week to go! Join us in Cambridge for Sadiah Qureshi’s public lecture "Vanished" — on extinction, race & the politics of memory. 📅 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm 📍 David Attenborough Building 🎟 Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053... With Helen Macdonald & Sarah Qidwai! #BSHS2025 #histSTEM

Join us in Cambridge for Sadiah Qureshi’s public lecture "Vanished" — on extinction, race & the politics of memory. 📅 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm 📍 David Attenborough Building, Cambridge 🎟 Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053... With an introduction by Helen Macdonald! #BSHS2025 #histSTEM

📣 Join historian Sadiah Qureshi as she shares insights from Vanished, her acclaimed new book on extinction, empire & erasure for free! With an introduction by Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk! 🗓 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm 📍 Cambridge 🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053... #PublicLecture #histSTM

Thank you to everyone at BSHS responsible for awarding @hpspodcast.bsky.social the 2024 Ayrton Prize. We are beyond thrilled at this recognition for the work we have put into the podcast over the last few years. It is also great timing, as we are launching Season 5 very soon!

Attending @bshsnews.bsky.social conference in Cambridge this year? Or happen to be in the vicinity & enjoy your comedy with a smattering of history? Join The Variables on 7 July for #HSTM #Comedy www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-variab...

Here we go! 🎉 We've all gathered in Glasgow, and have a full few days lined up exploring and celebrating the intersection between our senses and natural history! From touch to temperature, it's sure to be fascinating 🪶🐌🐻‍❄️

The BSHS Cambridge conference is approaching fast! Want to have some fantastic fun to kick off the week? Check out "A Loose History of Science in 7-ish Comedians" hosted by Cambridge's fantastic comedy group The Variables on Mon, 7 Jul 2025 19:30 - 21:30 BST - Book your tickets here:

🎉 We’re excited to share that The HPS Podcast has won the 2024 BSHS Ayrton Prize! The podcast wowed us with its accessible, wide-ranging content and outstanding engagement. Congrats to the team! 🧠🎙️ 👉 More info + links: www.bshs.org.uk/bshs-ayrton-...

On the centenary of astronomy populariser Camille Flammarion's death, his "influence mondiale" and the 30,000 fan letters being inventoried by historians of science #histsci

We did this at Bristol Museums, it has been invaluable 👇🏽 #Museums #Ethics #AntiRacism

Join us on 24 June at 5:30pm for the next lecture in our GHIL lecture series given by Aparna Vaidik (Ashoka University) on 'Forensics, Expert Testimony, and Judicial Truth in British India: A History of the Lahore Conspiracy Case Trial (1929–31)'. 1/5

Our Harriet Tubman Essay Prize closes this Friday - 13th June! 🚨 The prize celebrates the best undergrad essay on 19thC US History written by a BAME student. There's lots of amazing work out there - make sure to encourage your students to submit! More details 👇

Over the next three weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today we feature 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547', by Laura Flannigan bit.ly/4mUavDP 1/2

A superb write-up of the @bshsnews.bsky.social PG Conference from two attendees. It was by all accounts a great success, and a real pleasure to see our @leedsprhs.bsky.social and @hpsleeds.bsky.social postgraduate community deliver such a wonderful event! #histsci #histSTM

"The trope of the microscope in nineteenth-century India" by David Arnold, whose work is always so inspiring to read, OA via BJHS @bshsnews.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Coming soon: reports from attendees, photos and even a film which capture the @bshsnews.bsky.social Postgraduate Conference hosted by our wonderful PG community last month. We're still basking in the warm glow of this amazing event! pg-conference.bshs.org.uk #histsci #histSTM

Places are booking up for our conference Gilbert White and His Contexts (3-5th June)! gilbertwhite.org.uk @bshsnews.bsky.social @sochistnathist.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @gilbertwhites.bsky.social @gilbertwhite.bsky.social @curioustravellers.bsky.social