{"id":3097,"date":"2012-11-02T09:27:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T09:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-journals.internal\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2012-11-02T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T10:35:11","slug":"bjhs-50-years-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2012\/11\/02\/bjhs-50-years-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"BJHS &#8211; 50 years and counting\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>An anniversary is a good time to pause and take stock. <em>The British Journal for the History of Science<\/em> has been publishing papers for fifty years, and its proud parent,\u00a0the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), the national learned society for the specialty, has been leading reflections as well as celebrations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Society asked editors of the journal&#8217;s recent past to delve into the archives and pick their favourite <em>BJHS<\/em> papers, and tell us what they meant to them. You can see what Professor Simon Schaffer (Cambridge University, editor of the <em>BJHS<\/em> from 2004 to 2009) and Professor Janet Browne (Harvard University, editor of the <em>BJHS<\/em> in the second half the 1990s)\u00a0chose here:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bshs.org.uk\/publications\/viewpoint\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bshs.org.uk\/publications\/viewpoint<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can also download the editors&#8217; favourites <em>BJHS<\/em>\u00a0papers for\u00a0free\u00a0via Cambridge Journals&#8217;\u00a0<em>BJHS<\/em> website:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Past BJHS editor's selected papers\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/bjh50\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/bjh50<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s some great reads there, from David Bloor&#8217;s extraordinary sociological reading of mathematics to Hugh Torrens&#8217; lively essay on Mary Anning.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jon Agar<\/p>\n<p>Editor, <em>BJHS,<\/em> 2009 &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Follow <strong><a title=\"Follow BJHS Editor on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJHSeditor\" target=\"_blank\">@BJHSeditor on twitter\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anniversary is a good time to pause and take stock. The British Journal for the History of Science has been publishing papers for fifty years, and its proud parent,\u00a0the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), the national learned society for the specialty, has been leading reflections as well as celebrations. The Society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,9],"tags":[303,27],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-humanities","category-science-technology","tag-british-society-for-the-history-of-science","tag-history-of-science-and-medicine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}