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- "So Fair a Subterraneous City": Mining, Maps, and the Politics of Geometry in the Seventeenth Century
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- Material culture and mathematical practice in astrology’s long 16th century
- Medicine in Ancient Assur: outlining the career of a healer from the 7th century BCE
- Unveiling the invisible belt: the shareholders of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 1897-1901
- Quantification, measurement and the rise of physics in Victorian Britain
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- Absolute beginner? A relativistic take on Halford Mackinder’s geography, education and the popularization of knowledge
- Framing medical knowledge on mineral waters - France, 1770s-1830s
- The place of premodern public health
- Evaluation in the Age of Production: The Origins of Gemmology in France, c. 1770-1830
- Visualising Bloodletting Knowledge in Early Modern England
- The edge of the self and the limits of the world: Nathaniel Fairfax's thought experiments
- New ERC Project at the Maison Française d’Oxford: The Common Notion. Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century (NOTCOM)
- **CANCELLED** Drawing as a pragmatist visual epistemology
- Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
- BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2023
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- Calling all historians of science - enter the 7th Notes and Records Essay Award
- Exhibition: PLAGUE! at Magdalen: Epidemics and College Life
- Jennifer M Rampling, Fantasy or experiment? Reading alchemical imagery in early modern England
- Nathan Crowe, Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution
- Meira Gold, Territorial soils: Egyptology, agriculture, and the colonial politics of field sites
- Charlotte Bigg and Jessica Reinisch, The international scientific conference: a social, cultural and political history
- Jack Avery. "Chains of invincible reasoning"? New approaches to the Newton manuscripts at New College
- Digitizing Diagnosis: Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America by Andrew S Lea
- Ross Brooks, "We will have this cut out": The Making and Unmaking of Queer Zoology
- Dr Netta Cohen
- Enslaved by African angels: Swedenborg on African superiority, evangelization, and slavery by Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
- 2023 HSMT Postgraduate Conference: The Ox-cars
- Dr Philipp Nothaft
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- Andrew Seaton - Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution (Yale University Press)
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- Oxford History of Science turns 50
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- How the Treasury Saved Britain: nationalism, liberalism and “high technology” in the post-war era
- The Great Pox in Early Modern Italy: imagining and experiencing (Joint Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
- Framing epidemic geographies and displacement after the Great East Asian War of 1592-1598
- Abraham Bäck and Linnean racial science
- How students created their own curriculum: Oxbridge student clubs in the age of the research university
- Cave Remedies: Ancient Wisdom in Stalactites
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- “Deliver us from doctors”: The New Zealand model of midwifery and the politics of maternity from 1970
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- 2023 Junior Kirkaldy Prize Announced
- Dr David Robertson
- Oxford History of Science turns 50
- Professor Jim Bennett, 1947-2023
- Public Health in China: A Multidisciplinary Workshop
- Pure, white, and uncontaminated: infectious diseases and microbiology in Antarctica
- Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Mathematics: Contrasting the Aims and Approaches of Mathematicians, Egyptologists, and Others
- Joint event with Medical Humanities, Public Health in China: A Multidisciplinary Workshop
- Bloodletting under the ankle, post-mortem caesarean section, and the role of female expertise in medieval medicine
- Gold and Mercury: unearthing a toxic partnership (1847-2023)
- Tracing the Legacies of Empires of Extinction (Joint seminar with the Bodleian Libraries, We Are Our History Conversations)
- Ancient Mesopotamian Plant Knowledge
- Presentism and the Historian of Science: Reflections from the Coalface
- Jim Bennett and John Heilbron as Historians of Science and Intellectual Historians, by Dmitri Levitin
- Materiality as Method: In Conversation with Dr Peter Oakley
- British Society for the History of Mathematics Research in Progress 2024
- Inaugural Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - “Archives of Loss and Wonder”: Writing a History of Fossil Heritage in South Asia
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- Intercolonial Health Cooperation in the Pacific Islands and the British Empire
- Red Squirrels, Big Data, and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
- Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda
- The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): A “République des lettres” in the Twentieth Century
- The Soundscapes of Herb Women: Mapping Community Healthcare in Early Modern London
- Victorian Women and Algology: The Case of Margaret Scott Gatty (1809–1873)
- Workshop: Histories of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment (Week 2)
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- Workshop: Histories of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment (Week 6)
- Workshop: Histories of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment (Week 8)
- Workshop: Eugenics in the Academy
- History of Science in the Medieval World Summer School
- New under the Sun: Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine by Netta Cohen