Other BSHS Meetings

The BSHS has been involved in a wide variety of meetings, ranging from lectures, through specialist day conferences, to much larger events.  Several such meetings have been joint ventures, held in association with other organisations in the UK and internationally. 

Forthcoming meetings organised or supported by the Society include:

• Third Annual Conference on Science and the Public (BSHS-sponsored). Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK, 21-22 June 2008.
• Three Societies Meeting 2008 (joint BSHS-HSS-CSHPS meeting).  University of Oxford, UK, 4-6 July 2008.  This major international collaborative meeting replaces the BSHS Annual Conference for 2008.

If you have a suggestion for a possible future BSHS conference, we'd like to hear it.  Please direct initial queries to the Programmes Committee at programmes@bshs.org.uk.

A regular fixture in the BSHS calendar is the Three Societies meeting, held once every four years in association with the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science and the History of Science Society.  The 2008 meeting will be organised by the BSHS in Oxford.  Click here for more information.

• Darwinism after Darwin: new historical perspectives (BSHS-sponsored).  University of Leeds, UK, 3-5 September 2007
• Science and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (BSHS-sponsored).  University of Lancaster, UK, 23-26 July 2007
• Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science.  University of Edinburgh, UK, 18-21 July 2007
• Varieties of Cultural History: Theory and Practice in the Cultural Histories of Medicine, Science, Literature, and the Arts (BSHS-sponsored).  University of Aberdeen, UK, 5-8 July 2007
• Lifting the lid on radiation risks.  Evening speaker meeting.  Dana Centre, London, UK, 19 September 2006
• Scientists and social commitment.  Science Museum, London, UK, 15-17 September 2006
• Computers in use: historical and social perspectives (BSHS-supported).  University of Manchester, UK, 22-23 July 2006
• The Worlds of Oronce Fine: mathematics, instruments and the book in Renaissance France (BSHS-supported).  University of St Andrews, UK, 12-14 May 2006
• Franco-British Interactions in Science since the Seventeenth Century (jointly organised).  Maison Française, Oxford, UK, 24-25 March 2006
• Electrifying Experimentation: Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain.  University of Sheffield, UK, 25 February 2006 (co-sponsored event)
• Science and technology in Ireland, 1780-1920: historical and cultural perspectives.  National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, 23 June 2005
• Do collections matter for instrument studies?  Held in association with the Scientific Instrument Commission.  University of Oxford, 29-30 June 2002
• Les rêves et les choses.  Joint BSHS/SFHST meeting on the history of science in museums.  Musée des arts et métiers, Paris, 30 June - 1 July 2001
• Edwardian Science: Was There Such a Thing? Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, 21 May 2001
• Ideas Whose Time Had Come.  Royal Institution, London, 15 September 2000
• Science Communication, Education and the History of Science.  Royal Society, London, 12-13 July 2000
• Portraiture and Scientific Identity.  National Portrait Gallery, London, 23-24 June 2000
• ACE 2000.  Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Pilot Model Automatic Computing Engine, London's first computer.  Science Museum, London, and National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, 18-19 May 2000
• Two Hundred Years of Electricity.  Organised jointly with the Royal Institution and the Institute of Electrical Engineers, marking the bicentenary of Volta's discovery of electricity produced by chemical means and of the Royal Institution's foundation.  Royal Institution, London, 7 April 1999
• Defiant Modernism.  Sponsored jointly with the Science Museum and Institute for Contemporary British History, addressing technological and cultural change after the Second World War.  Science Museum, London, 25-26 June 1999
• On Time: History, Science, Commemoration.  Organised jointly with the Royal Historical Society and National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, an interdisciplinary meeting on time, timekeeping and commemoration.  Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, 16-18 September 1999
• The History of Scientific Textbooks.  University of Leeds, 10 January 1998
• P M S Blackett: Science and Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain.  Imperial College London, 16-17 April 1998
• New Directions in the History of British Computing.  University of Manchester, 16-17 June 1998
• Gender and Science.  St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 11 July 1998
• Anthropology and Psychology: the Legacy of the Torres Straits, 1898-1998.  Joint meeting with several institutions and university departments.  St John's College, Cambridge, 10-12 August 1998
• The Electron: 100 Years of Physics and History.  Royal Society and Science Museum, London, 11-12 April 1997
• Aspects of the History of Microscopy.  Joint meeting with the Royal Microscopical Society.  Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, London, 4 June 1997
• Psychoanalysing Robert Boyle.  Birkbeck College, London, 12 July 1997
• Fiftieth Anniversary Conference: History of Science as Public Culture.  University of Leeds, 9-11 September 1997
• The Meanings of Practice.  Joint meeting with the Society for the Social History of Medicine on the meanings of the term 'practice' in analyses of the history and current organization of STM.  University of Manchester, 14 November 1997
• Semaphores to Short Waves.  Joint meeting with the Newcomen Society and the Royal Society of Arts.  Marking the 150th anniversary of the Electric Telegraph Company's incorporation.  Royal Society of Arts, London, 29 July 1996
• Images and Practice.  Three-site meeting considering issues of representation in the history of Science.  Modern History Faculty; Museum of the History of Science; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 12 June 1996
• Archives of the Scientific Revolution.  Joint meeting with the Royal Society.  Royal Society, London, 11-12 April 1996