On 18 March 2026, Adelene Buckland will give a talk to Leeds HPS titled "Artificial Mothers: Technoscientific Utopias in the 1830s and beyond." Find more information here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/v...

On 04 March, Kristin Hussey (Newcastle University) will give a talk at the Centre for HPS called "Contesting ‘Shift Work’ Disorder: Sleep, labour and medical perspectives on shift work in 20th century Britain."

Upcoming talk: Monica Stenzel at the Linnean Society Monica Stenzel, a PhD student in Leeds HPS, will be giving a talk, titled "Fuzzy Logic: Wool as the Once and Future Fibre" to the Linnean Society of London on 25-February from 18:00 - 20:00. Find out more and purchase your tickets here.

Upcoming talk: Greg Radick at the Simpson Center for Humanities On Thursday 05 March, Professor Gregory Radick will be giving a talk titled "Nurturing Science: An Enhanced Role for the Humanities" at the Simpson Center for Humanities in Seattle, Washington. Find the event details here!

‘New Books in Philosophy’ Podcast Interview Ellen Clarke, the Centre for HPS's director this year, was interviewed last week for the New Books in Philosophy podcast, on her recently published book The Units of Life! Check out the podcast here!

Feature in the Smithsonian Magazine! 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…

HPS Visiting Speaker Seminars, Semester 2, 2025-26 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 [email protected] for a link. All talks run from 3.30-5pm, but…

Work-in-Progress seminars, spring 2026 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…

Tomorrow! Workshop ‘At the intersection of Pragmatism, Scientific Realism and Cognitive Science‘ hpsleeds.wordpress.com/events/

A blog post by Manchester's Jon Williamson for Leeds' Centre for Theoretical Philosophy. Enjoy!

New post-doc! 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…

Workshop announcement 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…

Special issue of Osiris 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…

#BSPS 2026 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…

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

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.

HPS/Centre CHoP Talk: Edwin Rose (19 Nov) 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…

Royal Society essay prize for History of HSTM 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…

Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecord essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM

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!

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

Coming up in the Leeds HPS seminar this semester...... Rob Wilson, Matthew Sims, Alkistis Elliott-Graves @matthewsims.bsky.social @alkistiseg.bsky.social hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/h...

Congratulations to PhD researcher Monica Stenzel, who has secured a grant from @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social to support her project on the history of "wool science"! Supervised by @kingtekkers.bsky.social and @graemegooday.bsky.social, her work bridges science, textiles and sustainability #histsci

A whole clutch of out staff and postgraduates were at #BSHS2025 a couple of weeks ago, and we have a contingent in Porto for the next few days at #ISHPSSB2025. Look out for papers from them spanning the breadth of history and philosophy of biology, from evolution and individuality to microbes!

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

Greg Radick giving the Genetics Society’s JBS Haldane 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…

Tomorrow at 3.15pm, catch Prof Greg Radick delivering the 2025 JBS Haldane Lecture on "The New Genetics Meets the New History of Genetics”. Details here: genetics.org.uk/events/genet... #histsci #HPS

’Founder of sociology’, Harriet Martineau, abolitionist, feminist, champion of equal education for women, born #OTD 1802. Portrait by Richard Evans (assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence) 1834, National Portrait Gallery | The Armitt Library & Museum @ucuuoc.bsky.social | @hpsleeds.bsky.social

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

Our Visiting HPS Seminar tomorrow is the final one of the academic year! We welcome Dr Charu Singh from the University of Cambridge for “Challenging the Tridosha: Elements, humors and an Ayurvedic controversy in British India, c.1935”. Full details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #HPS

Delighted that @adamrutherford.bsky.social and @hpsleeds.bsky.social's Prof Gregory Radick will be joining us @thackraymuseum.bsky.social on Thursday evening for our newest Insights Late on the legacy of eugenics. Just a few tickets left now … 🎟️ thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...

We can't believe it: the ninth (9th) episode in our podcast series has dropped! This time Dr Mike Finn, Director of our Museum, chats about psychiatry and how the modern science of neurology was inspired by research in a Yorkshire asylum... #histmed #histSTM open.spotify.com/episode/2o43...

The final events in our seminar series are coming up! For details of our wonderful work-in-progress papers, all run online, see here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/wip.... Join us on 29 April and 6 and 13 May, to hear about topics as diverse as engineering and smallpox eradication #hps #histSTM

A wonderful event! Professor Jon Topham’s @jontopham.bsky.social inaugural professorial lecture, introduced here by Greg Radick, doubling as keynote for the @bshsnews.bsky.social postgraduate conference. An exploration of how history of the book can make us see anew the science-religion relationship

Can't make it to Leeds? You can still watch the live stream of Jon Topham's Professorial Inaugural Lecture here: www.youtube.com/live/W1KQBZV... We much look forward to seeing those us in person, and particularly all the attendees at the @bshsnews.bsky.social Postgraduate Conference! #histsci

British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Postgraduate Conference at Leeds, 25-26 April 2025 We are thrilled that this year's BSHS Postgraduate conference will take place at the University of Leeds over two days, on the 25th and 26th April, 2025. The theme for this year's conference will…

Please join us for the launch of our 3rd BSPS Open volume, The Material Mind by Max Kistler, on 7 May. philosophie.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/c... #bspsopen #philsci #openaccesspublishing #ucalgarypress #thematerialmind

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 open.spotify.com/episode/5Dln...

Did you know: our researchers have developed a suite of resources for A-Level students and teachers? "History & Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects" draws on an incredible array of items from our own collection ft. prompts, questions, videos and more! sway.cloud.microsoft/cEekCFBF5CGF... #histsci

Two Collaborative PhD Studentships in History of Science The Centre for History & Philosophy of Science is offering two fully-funded PhD scholarships to support research in the history of science and gender, and the history of trust in meteorology. The two projects – supported by Collaborative…

A wonderful opportunity to apply for a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with @royalsociety.org. "Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Deadline 6 May. See link for full details. #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social

Lovely to attend the launch of SICK and SICK TOO - a pair of parallel exhibitions at @lulgalleries.bsky.social by Sarah Roberts. It was a real privilege to host Sarah for some sessions with the LivingBodiesObjects project, and to see her draw inspiration from collections in @hpsleeds.bsky.social!

📢 Reminder! Prof. Jon Topham’s jontopham.bsky.social Keynote Lecture explores the intertwined histories of science, religion, and publishing 📆 25 April 2025 | 3.30–5.00pm BST 📍 Leeds & Online 🔗 bit.ly/4hDxuyV A joint event by hpsleeds.bsky.social, leedsprhs.bsky.social & BSHS Postgrads

Our latest podcast episode is out! Hear our own @frankendodo.bsky.social chat with @kingtekkers.bsky.social about the relationships between literature and science in the nineteenth century. Featuring Lewis Carroll and public debates about science open.spotify.com/episode/1iVl... #histsci #HPS

📢Upcoming lecture! Professor Jon Topham jontopham.bsky.social on ‘Science and Religion from the Ground Up’ Join us for this joint event between the BSHS, hpsleeds.bsky.social and leedsprhs.bsky.social in Leeds and online! 📆Friday 25th April, 2025 | 3.30pm–5.00pm www.eventbrite.com/e/science-an...

We are delighted to announce another fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship, this time in conjunction with @theul.bsky.social. "The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage". Deadline 30 April. See here for full details: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #histsci

Our latest podcast episode is out! Monica Stenzel, one of our PhD researchers, chats about the "science of #wool" and how fuzzy fleeces became an unlikely source of inspiration for science, especially at the Yorkshire College! open.spotify.com/episode/2Zc1... #histsci #histSTM #skystorians

Tomorrow, Tues 11 March, it’ll be @kingtekkers.bsky.social and @isobelnewby.bsky.social taking to the stage for our weekly work-in-progress seminar, with: “I’ll be Bacteria…”. Join us in person or online! hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/wip... #histsci #histmed #hps #histbio