Nominations are now open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize, awarded every two years to the best scholarly book in the history of science (broadly construed) in English. The Prize aims to recognize pioneering works that advance the scholarly understanding and interpretation of the scientific past. In focusing on academic books, it complements the Society’s [...]
Join us for a special online lecture with Renée Bergland, winner of the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize, as she discusses her award-winning book Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science (Princeton University Press). In Natural Magic, Bergland explores the intertwined imaginations of poetry and science in the nineteenth century, tracing how Emily Dickinson and [...]
The BSHS Hughes Prize, formerly the BSHS Dingle Prize, is awarded every two years to the best book in the history of science (broadly construed) published in English which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists. The prize is very much in keeping with the Society’s aim to communicate history of science to [...]
