Overview

BJHS Themes is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal for the history of science, which publishes annual thematic collections aimed at animating the history of science community. BJHS Themes is enabled by investment from the Society’s Wheeler Bequest in collaboration with Cambridge University Press. The aim is to publish collections of insightful, original and timely studies that hit the historiographical moment. Articles are free to read online for all. Typically, issues are chosen through an open, annual competition.

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2024: Vol 9 – Coming soon (edited by Jahnavi Phalkey)
2023: Vol 8 – Coming soon (edited by Rohan Deb Roy)
2022: Vol 7 – Coming soon (edited by Rohan Deb Roy)
2021: Vol 6 – Descent of Darwin: Race, Sex, and Human Nature (edited by Simon Werrett)
2020: Vol 5 – Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Science (edited by Simon Werrett)
2019: Vol 4 – How Collections End (edited by Simon Werrett)
2018: Vol 3 – Worlds of Science for Children and Young People, 1830-1991 (edited by Jon Agar)
2017: Vol 2 – Animal Agents? Historiography, Theory and the History of Science in the Anthropocene (edited by Jon Agar)
2016: Vol 1 – Science of Giants: China and India in the twentieth century (edited by Jon Agar)

Editors: Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading) for 2022 and 2023 and Jahnavi Phalkey (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences)

Editorial Board is shared with the BJHS

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