Dear BSHS Members, The BSHS Council met at the end of October, and I am delighted to share with you some of the latest updates on the Society’s activities. Council members were still buzzing from the success of our Annual Conference in Cambridge, which featured over 200 speakers from over 20 countries, an exceptional [...]
Dear BSHS Member I hope you've had a summer that has been productive, relaxing, memorable and enjoyable--with luck all of these. For those involved with the BSHS it has been remarkably busy, though as usual things have been quieter in August. Certainly a highlight of the summer was our meeting in the beautiful Welsh [...]
In July 2023 Dr Jenny Bulstrode published an article entitled 'Black metallurgists and the making of the Industrial Revolution' in the refereed journal History and Technology. Since then the author has been subject to sustained abuse in newspapers and on social media, sparking a campaign of personal vilification. The detailed and wide-ranging evidence the [...]
