Good place to have lunch

What a day!

Looking for an intellectual treat? @petermandler.bsky.social 's Ford Lectures on 'The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life' begin Thursday 22 January and continue weekly through 26 February in Oxford. #Skystorians

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

Mood.

Funny weather in Leeds this morning. The Town Hall was momentarily golden and framed by a rainbow.

Grimwith Reservoir. NOT living up to its name.

Finally, the recording has landed! If you missed @jontopham.bsky.social's inaugural lecture on "Science and religion from the ground up" back in April, you can now catch up online at mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Pl.... @bshsnews.bsky.social @leedsprhs.bsky.social

BBC History Extra has chosen Vanished as one of its books of the year! Amazed and grateful that my roar has reached far further than I imagined. I was also on a podcast for them earlier this year. Link here: historyextra.supportingcast.fm/listen/histo.... www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...

This is an exciting find: the remains of the building used by the House of Commons as its temporary chamber between 1835 and 1851. If you want to know what that building looked like, see our short article: historyofparliament.com/2025/09/25/t...

Oh what a beautiful morning!

So, our concrete jungle may be deemed architecturally significant, but I definitely get more out of the heron.

Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science. 📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome). Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...

Don't miss out on this super talk about scientific printing by our own @edwinrose.bsky.social later today - join us either online or in person.

Bradford University to benefit from JB Priestley royalties. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Born #OnThisDay in 1914 was actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. As well as acting in 30 films, during the Second World War she co-developed a frequency-hopping guidance system for American torpedoes, the principles of which are used in Bluetooth and WiFi technologies today. #WomenInSTEM

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

New book review: Cornish on Rose, Edwin D.: _Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820_. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20129660

It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

History of the Human Sciences announces its 2025-26 ECR Prize. All details (including previous winners) on our para-site histhum.com. Deadline: 30 January 2026. Also! Follow the journal on Bluesky at @histhum.bsky.social www.histhum.com/early-career...

The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.

Lindisfarne, Holy Island, Northumberland, photo by Sarah Howard, landscape photographer.

Who knew that the British JAIL for History of Science was in the Leeds School of Philosophy? We'll keep you on the historiographical straight and narrow!

We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...

We're super excited to be hosting Prof. Alison Bashford at @globalaffairslu.bsky.social to hear her talk about her fascinating new book on the history of reading the hand. You can imagine why we'd be interested and we are sure you will be too. Please sign up for free tickets at the link below.

Thanks to the generosity of the Bibliographical Society we still have two subsidised tickets for postgraduate attendance at the forthcoming Print Networks conference. Don't let the opportunity pass. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/print-netw...

Huge congratulations to our own Dr Ellen Clarke on the publication of "The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology"! academic.oup.com/book/60068

Our Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine holds some incredible collections. Look out for a complete refresh of our permanent gallery spaces - “Proper #Yorkshire Science” - launching very soon! It explores the connection between science and regional identity #histsci

Great to see the latest issue of @bshsnews.bsky.social "Viewpoint" magazine out at www.bshs.org.uk/wp-content/u.... A big shout-out to editor Joe Holloway for including an excerpt from my book "Reading the Book of Nature" in this issue and for organizing to interview me. Thanks, Joe!

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

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

'researchers...say that Annie Walker – a Victorian woman who began working at the observatory in 1879, when she was only 15 – ...observed thousands of stars herself....Walker was the first British professional female astronomer...paid a living wage by an observatory in the UK to chart the stars.'

The APEX Awards, jointly awarded with the @britishacademy.bsky.social and the @raeng.org.uk, are now open for applications, giving independent researchers the opportunity to pursue genuine interdisciplinary research. Applications now close on 09 September: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/apex-...

It's here.

If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events: 18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis... 26 June, Linnean Society, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-unnatu... 9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanished-a...

Giant 1970s cheese plant rehomed at indoor zoo in Leeds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Celebrating the BSHS Postgraduate Conference 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…

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

My latest book, Translating Science in the 18th and 19th centuries (co-edited with my dear friend Alison E. Martin), is now available in open access format at tinyurl.com/yy3wt4h7

Beautiful botanical details inside & out in this recent acquisition from @quaritch1847.bsky.social: Henrietta Moriarty's 'Viridarium: coloured plates of greenhouse plants' (London, 1806), produced in part to free her from destitution after the early death of her dissolute husband. CUL 8000.d.1621.

📣 Call for Proposals – BJHS Themes 2026! We're inviting proposals for the next issue of BJHS Themes, the open-access journal published with @CambridgeUP! 📅 Deadline: 15 July 2025 📘 Details: www.bshs.org.uk/cfp-bjhs-the... Check out our current Themes issues! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

IMEMS Co-Director Professor Matthew Eddy discusses his new book, winner of the British Society for the History of Science's Pickstone Prize, in an interview with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social - now live! 🎙️ 👉 Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th... @bshsnews.bsky.social

Join us on 16-18 December in Chieti to explore how texts — from hypertexts and digital narratives to literature and social media — shape human experience: influencing social change, reframing histories. CfP open now digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 1/

Postgraduate student in book history or literary studies? Apply for a bursary to the Digital Scholarship Winter School. Learn concepts and methods for research on new sources and media technologies. Generously sponsored by @sharpnews.bsky.social digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 2/end

🗣️ Got a bold idea to bring history of science, tech or medicine to the public? 🧪🎬🧵🎭📚 Apply for a BSHS Outreach & Engagement Grant – up to £500 available! 📅 Deadline: 16 May 2025 🔗 bshs.org.uk/grants/outreach-and-engagement-project-grants #HistSTM #SciComm #PublicHistory #BSHSGrants #HSTM

📢 WHS Research Bursary! Postgrad, early career, or independent researcher in women's/gender history? Apply for up to £500! Open to those in Scotland or researching Scottish themes. 🗓️ Deadline: 31st May 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #GenderStudies #ResearchFunding

The Lyell Lectures are free! Link here to book online and in person: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur...

RSVP’s annual Colby Prize lecture is going digital! Join us for a special #RSVPDigiEvent on May 9 to hear from W. Hamish Fraser on "Nineteenth-Century Scottish Newspapers: The Importance of the Local." As always, this event is free and open to all! #VoicesandVisions rs4vp.org/colby-prize-...