The British Society for the History of Science

Welcome to the website of the BSHS: the main organisation in the British Isles working to bring together people with an interest in the histories of science, technology and medicine and their changing relationship with society.  Learn more about the BSHS here...

Latest announcement (6 May 2008)

Online Registration for the Three Societies 2008 reopened!.  Three Societies conference registration has now been reopened. Please book online or download the application pack (.doc)

More BSHS announcements 18 Apr 2008: Updated information on the Three Societies 2008 conference 1 Apr 2008: Updated information on the Three Societies 2008 conference 3 Mar 2008: More information about the Three Societies 2008 conference released 30 Jan 2008: Designing Darwin Competition 3 Jan 2008: Philip Ball Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005) wins 2007 Dingle Prize Archived announcements... Announcements in the history of science, technology and medicine Science and the Public MA IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE (HPSM) History of Biomedicine Lecture at the NIH The Seventh Cardwell Memorial Lecture in the History of Technology Science and the Public (BSHS-supported) More news...

New BSHS Monograph Released! Edited by Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson, An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War provides an engaging account of the controversies surrounding the chemical element chlorine from its first isolation in the 1770s to the late 20th century. [Find out More] [Buy from Amazon.co.uk]