On 04 March, Kristin Hussey (Newcastle University) will give a talk at the Centre for HPS called "Contesting ‘Shift Work’ Disorder: Sleep, labour and medical perspectives on shift work in 20th century Britain."
Upcoming talk: Monica Stenzel at the Linnean Society
Monica Stenzel, a PhD student in Leeds HPS, will be giving a talk, titled "Fuzzy Logic: Wool as the Once and Future Fibre" to the Linnean Society of London on 25-February from 18:00 - 20:00. Find out more and purchase your tickets here.
Upcoming talk: Greg Radick at the Simpson Center for Humanities
On Thursday 05 March, Professor Gregory Radick will be giving a talk titled "Nurturing Science: An Enhanced Role for the Humanities" at the Simpson Center for Humanities in Seattle, Washington. Find the event details here!
‘New Books in Philosophy’ Podcast Interview
Ellen Clarke, the Centre for HPS's director this year, was interviewed last week for the New Books in Philosophy podcast, on her recently published book The Units of Life! Check out the podcast here!
Feature in the Smithsonian Magazine!
Dr. Edwin Rose, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in HPS at Leeds has been featured in a new article in the Smithsonian Magazine, "Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand’s Plants With Captain Cook’s Crew." Take…
HPS Visiting Speaker Seminars, Semester 2, 2025-26
All seminars will take place in 17 Blenheim Terrace SR 2 (G.04) – the ground floor IDEA seminar room. (Find a campus map here). Online access will be via MS Teams; get in touch with e.clarke@leeds.ac.uk for a link. All talks run from 3.30-5pm, but…
Work-in-Progress seminars, spring 2026
All WIPs run from 12-1 on Tuesdays, in the Botany House seminar room 1.03. WiP 2026 Semester 2 27th January– Tadhg Goodison, A tale of Two Almanacs- Meteorology in the world of London print culture Chair: Edwin 3rd February– Yuyou Wu, Reclaiming Realism for…
Tomorrow!
Workshop ‘At the intersection of Pragmatism, Scientific Realism and Cognitive Science‘
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A blog post by Manchester's Jon Williamson for Leeds' Centre for Theoretical Philosophy. Enjoy!
New post-doc!
Harry Parker British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Harry Parker is principally a historian of modern Britain, with interests ranging across the cultural, intellectual, and environmental history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He completed his PhD at Cambridge, where he…
Workshop announcement
Call for Registration: At the Intersection of Pragmatism, Scientific Realism and Cognitive Science Date: January 20-21, 2026 Location: Seminar Room 2, IDEA Centre (17 Blenheim Terrace), University of Leeds We are pleased to announce a two-day workshop exploring themes at the…
Special issue of Osiris
Our postdoc Elisabeth Yang and her fellow co-editors, Andrea Graus and Violeta Ruiz, are thrilled to see the final publication of our special issue of Osiris: The Histories of Science and Childhoods. Featured are articles written by an array of brilliant scholars! Stay…
#BSPS 2026
The annual meeting of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science is coming to Leeds! 21-23rd July There is a call for symposia here And call for abstracts here: Call for Abstracts The Call for is now open for papers at the British Society for Philosophy of Science 2026 Annual…
Recording now available in full at mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Pl...
Finally, the recording has landed! If you missed @jontopham.bsky.social's inaugural lecture on "Science and religion from the ground up" back in April, you can now catch up online at mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Pl.... @bshsnews.bsky.social @leedsprhs.bsky.social
Good point @richardfallon.bsky.social. Join link on Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
Don't miss out on this super talk about scientific printing by our own @edwinrose.bsky.social later today - join us either online or in person.
HPS/Centre CHoP Talk: Edwin Rose (19 Nov)
Announcing HPS/Centre CHoP Talk, 19 November: Edwin Rose: A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge’s first Scientific Journal, 1821-1928 Next Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm, in the School of English (Ground Floor of…
Royal Society essay prize for History of HSTM
Announcing the 9th Notes and Records Essay Award Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the history of science, technology and medicine. Our Essay Award is open to researchers from the above fields who have…
Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecord essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM
Who knew that the British JAIL for History of Science was in the Leeds School of Philosophy? We'll keep you on the historiographical straight and narrow!
New book review:
Cornish on Rose, Edwin D.: _Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820_. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20129660
Coming up in the Leeds HPS seminar this semester...... Rob Wilson, Matthew Sims, Alkistis Elliott-Graves
@matthewsims.bsky.social @alkistiseg.bsky.social
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Congratulations to PhD researcher Monica Stenzel, who has secured a grant from @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social to support her project on the history of "wool science"! Supervised by @kingtekkers.bsky.social and @graemegooday.bsky.social, her work bridges science, textiles and sustainability #histsci
A whole clutch of out staff and postgraduates were at #BSHS2025 a couple of weeks ago, and we have a contingent in Porto for the next few days at #ISHPSSB2025. Look out for papers from them spanning the breadth of history and philosophy of biology, from evolution and individuality to microbes!
Huge congratulations to our own Dr Ellen Clarke on the publication of "The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology"! academic.oup.com/book/60068
Our Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine holds some incredible collections. Look out for a complete refresh of our permanent gallery spaces - “Proper #Yorkshire Science” - launching very soon! It explores the connection between science and regional identity #histsci
Greg Radick giving the Genetics Society’s JBS Haldane
This year's prestigious Haldane lecture (click) will be delivered by Greg Radick. The JBS Haldane Lecture recognises an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an…
Tomorrow at 3.15pm, catch Prof Greg Radick delivering the 2025 JBS Haldane Lecture on "The New Genetics Meets the New History of Genetics”.
Details here: genetics.org.uk/events/genet...
#histsci #HPS
’Founder of sociology’, Harriet Martineau, abolitionist, feminist, champion of equal education for women, born #OTD 1802. Portrait by Richard Evans (assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence)1834, National Portrait Gallery | The Armitt Museum @ucuuoc.bsky.social | @hpsleeds.bsky.social
’Founder of sociology’, Harriet Martineau, abolitionist, feminist, champion of equal education for women, born #OTD 1802. Portrait by Richard Evans (assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence)1834, National Portrait Gallery | The Armitt Museum @ucuuoc.bsky.social | @hpsleeds.bsky.social
’Founder of sociology’, Harriet Martineau, abolitionist, feminist, champion of equal education for women, born #OTD 1802. Portrait by Richard Evans (assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence)1834, National Portrait Gallery | The Armitt Museum @ucuuoc.bsky.social | @hpsleeds.bsky.social
’Founder of sociology’, Harriet Martineau, abolitionist, feminist, champion of equal education for women, born #OTD 1802.
Portrait by Richard Evans (assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence) 1834, National Portrait Gallery | The Armitt Library & Museum @ucuuoc.bsky.social | @hpsleeds.bsky.social
