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Published for The British Society for the History of Science. This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than thirty years. It is also used extensively by historians and scholars in related fields. A substantial book review section is a central feature. There are four issues a year, comprising an annual volume of over 600 pages.
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BJHS and BJHS Themes Blogs
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Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet’s Theory of the Earth
- 01 February 2023,
- In his Telluris Theoria Sacra and its English translation The Theory of the Earth (1681–90), the English clergyman and schoolmaster Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715)...
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Embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament
- 11 July 2022,
- At times during the past few years, evidence sessions of the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have made headline news, for example...
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Medicine and the heavens in Padua’s Faculty of Arts, 1570–1630
- 17 May 2022,
- After over two years of living in a pandemic, most everyone is familiar with COVID-19’s periods of incubation, progression and contagion. Similar issues were...
News – BSHS
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BSHS Council Statement on ‘Black metallurgists and the making of the Industrial Revolution’
- 22 November 2023,
- In July 2023 Dr Jenny Bulstrode published an article entitled 'Black metallurgists and the making of the Industrial Revolution' in the refereed journal History...
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Update from BSHS President
- 09 November 2023,
- Dear BSHS member, This has been an exceptionally busy few months for BSHS. In July we held a major global digital festival on the theme of ‘Intersections’,...
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CfP: BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2024
- 07 November 2023,
- CfP for the BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2024 The call for papers for the 2024 British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference is now open....
History of Science on the Blog
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Van Leeuwenhoek – the film: remaking the origins of bacteriology
- 23 August 2023,
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) is universally acknowledged as the first person describing protozoa and bacteria using his self made microscopes. His seventeenth-century...
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Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet’s Theory of the Earth
- 01 February 2023,
- In his Telluris Theoria Sacra and its English translation The Theory of the Earth (1681–90), the English clergyman and schoolmaster Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715)...
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Embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament
- 11 July 2022,
- At times during the past few years, evidence sessions of the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have made headline news, for example...
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