BSHS Reveals the winner of the BSHS Hughes Prize for 2023 The 2023 Hughes Prize for an accessible book in the history of science is awarded to Keith Wailoo for the book Pushing Cool. Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette. The Jury of the BSHS Hughes Prize said: [...]
The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) has unveiled the shortlist for its Hughes Prize. Six exceptional books will now be read by judges before the winner is revealed later this year. The shortlisted works include a history of menthol cigarettes as a means of revealing networks of corporate exploitation and racial [...]
Clare Hickman The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation’s public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment, but also [...]
