Between 6th and 10th July this year (2020), almost 1500 people from 59 countries attended the BSHS Global Digital History of Science Festival. With around 50 different sessions ranging from lightning talks to virtual tours, and from keynote lectures to panel games (not to mention conversations in the online coffee house and 'pub'), the [...]
The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries' Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy and the British Society for the History of Pharmacy are running a three-day course on the History of Pharmacy and the Pharmaceutical Industry on 1st - 3rd July 2019. Click here for the programme and application form. [...]
From the Royal Society: Professor Agar asks why scientists say they ask ‘why?’, and traces the curious history of the idea of curiosity-driven science; as he explores the curious place of curiosity in the history of science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCbdU_n6cJw In the early modern period, curiosity was doubled-edged: it was both a virtue, the spring [...]
