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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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Hughes prize Shortlisted: Clare Hickman
- 01 June 2023,
- Clare Hickman The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and...
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Hughes prize Shortlisted: Alison Caroline Bashford
- 01 June 2023,
- Alison Caroline Bashford An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family In his early twenties, poor, racked with depression, stranded in the...
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Hughes prize Shortlisted: Keith Andrew Wailoo
- 01 June 2023,
- Keith Andrew WailooPushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette Spanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the...
History of Science on the Blog
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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...
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