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 [...]
Submissions open for the 2025 Hughes Prize – deadline 11 April 2025 In keeping with the Society’s aim to communicate history of science to broad audiences, the 2025 Hughes Prize will be offered for the best book in the history of science, technology, and medicine, first published in English in 2023 or 2024, which [...]
