History of science seminars

History of science seminars

Royal Society Publishing

This series features a selection of talks and seminars covering the history of science based on articles published in the Royal Society journals Notes and Records : the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science and Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . Each talk is associated with a recent paper or theme issue, selected by the journal’s editors as being particularly innovative or having had significant recent impact.

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Professor Malcolm S. Longair CBE FRS FRSE
Miss Helen Eaton
Dr Robin S. Reich
Dr Eleanor Bird
Prof. Frank James
Dr. Alexis Wolf
Prof. Sharon Ruston
Dr. Andrew Lacey
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Prof. Peter Vincent
Dr Eleanor Bird
Dr. Andrew Preston
Dr Sergio Orozco
Prof Anna Marie Roos FLS FSA
Prof Sharon Ruston
Professor António Santos
Professor Claudio Stern
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Transnational Studies of 19th-Century Japanese and British Science
Nov 18 @ 12pm
Keynote
University of Copenhagen

Transnational Studies of 19th-Century Japanese and British Science

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Bernard V Lightman
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Efram Sera-Shriar
University of Copenhagen
YK
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 12:00 PM (UTC)
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Women of science in the circle of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
Nov 2024
Keynote
De Montfort University
Royal Society

Women of science in the circle of Sir John Frederick William Herschel

Chaired by Kelley Wilder, De Montfort University
Emily Winterburn, Independent scholar
+4 talks +2 speakers
Roundtable: Science in the Making
Apr 2024
Keynote
Royal Society
Arup Group (United Kingdom)

Roundtable: Science in the Making

Louisiane Ferlier, Royal Society
Layla Hillsden, Arup Group (United Kingdom)
+4 speakers
Mendel's closet: genetics, eugenics and the exceptions of sex in Edwardian Britain
Jan 2024
Keynote
Oxford Brookes University
University of Lincoln

Mendel's closet: genetics, eugenics and the exceptions of sex in Edwardian Britain

Ross Brooks, Oxford Brookes University
Chaired by Anna Marie Roos, University of Lincoln and Royal Society
The Davy Notebooks Project
Jul 2023
Keynote
Lancaster University
University College London

The Davy Notebooks Project

Eleanor Bird, Lancaster University
+1 talk +4 speakers
Ptolemy’s Almagest and the translation of diagrams in the twelfth-century Mediterranean
May 2023
Keynote
Fordham University
University of Lincoln

Ptolemy’s Almagest and the translation of diagrams in the twelfth-century Mediterranean

Robin S. Reich, Fordham University
Chaired by Anna Marie Roos, University of Lincoln
The Royal Society Biographical Memoirs: highlights and experiences as Editor-in-Chief
Apr 2023
Keynote
University of Cambridge

The Royal Society Biographical Memoirs: highlights and experiences as Editor-in-Chief

Malcolm S. Longair, University of Cambridge
Chaired by Helen Eaton
The instruments of expeditionary science and the reworking of nineteenth-century magnetic experiment
Feb 2023
Keynote
University College London
University of Lincoln

The instruments of expeditionary science and the reworking of nineteenth-century magnetic experiment

Edward J. Gillin, University College London
Chaired by Anna Marie Roos, University of Lincoln and Royal Society