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 (7 July 2008)

Designing Darwin Competition Winners Announced.  The Outreach and Education Committee is pleased to announce the winners of its 2008 competition 'Designing Darwin'. This prize is awarded in three age categories for original designs that best illustrate the significance of Charles Darwin's birth bicentenary and the 150th birthday of his most famous work, On the Origin of Species in 2009. [More information]

More BSHS announcements 6 Jun 2008: Date and Time of Dr Philip Ball's 2007 Dingle Prize Lecture announced 6 May 2008: Online Registration for the Three Societies 2008 reopened! 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 Archived announcements... Announcements in the history of science, technology and medicine Assistant or Junior Associate Professor in the History of Medicine - Yale University Call for Papers: Logic and Heresy in the Middle Ages Histories of Archaeology Research Network (HARN) Faculty Research Fellowship Program Life of the cell: Philosophy & history of cell research 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]