New issue of the BJHS (June 2026) out now!

We’re very happy to announce that the June instalment of the BJHS is now available.

Our first two articles focus on museums – Harry Parker examines the ‘politics of display’ in the production of the London Science Museum’s nuclear-energy gallery in the 1980s, while Erin Beeston considers the efforts made by Manchester communities to create a Northern science museum that would ‘rival South Kensington’. Sticking with 20th century research, Eric J Richards investigates Alan Durrant’s work on the inheritance of environmental effects in plants and its connections to Lysenkoism, in part by re-creating some of Durant’s original experiments. João P R Joaquim analyses Redcliffe Salaman’s efforts to create virus free seed potatoes in 1950s Britain, showing how plant virology developed from craft practices to scientific institutionalisation. Daniele Cozzoli and George Bailey both also focus on the circulation of knowledge and the analysis of authority, but do so on the global stage. Cozzoli uses the case of the post-war production of penicillin to reflect on the different strategies used by nations to protect significant military-industrial knowledge and expertise, while Bailey shows how the Nobel laureate, C V Raman, negotiated scientific institutions and imperialism over the course of his career, and the impact this had on the development of science in India.

Our research articles are followed by an essay review by Alexander Stoeger, which reflects on the relationship between science and the city – specifically, Naples, London, and Lisbon – and is in turn followed by our book reviews.

We hope you find much food for thought over the summer in our pages!

Best,

Amanda and Adam, BJHS editors