The Podcast focuses on Lewis Carroll’s Alice Wonderland, aired on 15/02/24, and is now available to listen. Check it out below by clicking the image. If you’d like extra reading, see these 2 short pieces also written by Fran: Alice in the Asylum: Wonderland and the real mad tea parties of the Victorians Lewis Carroll ..read more

Seminars are on Wednesdays, 3.15pm-5pm (apart from 24 April, which has an earlier start). Some are in-person — these are all in Botany House room 1.03 unless otherwise stated. (There is a campus map here.) Others are on Zoom; a link will appear next to the seminar listing below at least a day or so in ..read more

Watch Professor Greg Radick introduce the program here ..read more

Work-in-progress seminars are all on Tuesdays in Botany House 1.03, 12:00-13:00 (PM). All of them will be in hybrid format. You are welcome to bring along some lunch and carry on the conversation afterwards (13:00-14:00) as well! If any queries: Stefan Bernhardt-Radu; prsbr@leeds.ac.uk All the sessions can be accessed via zoom here: Zoom link ..read more

The Science Museum’s prestigious online Journal has just published an article co-authored by two PRHS postgraduate students, Alexander King and Nela Spurná (written with PRHS staff member Graeme Gooday): ‘1876 and All That: the ‘Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus’ as a case study in crowd-sourced international public science’  In 2021-22, under Gooday’s supervision, Nela and Alex undertook ..read more

Join us for an informal launch of Greg Radick’s new book, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology! Wednesday 1 November, 5pm, right after our Visiting Speaker Seminar. There will be drinks and snacks. The venue (on campus) will appear here in due course — or if you come to the ..read more

Our centre’s research diversity comprises, amongst others, much-needed work on Covid-19. Fran has just had a chapter published in RecordCovid19: Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic, edited by Kris Lovell (Coventry University). A link to the publisher can be found here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110731002/html. The book ‘provides insights into the experience of the Covid19 pandemic from an historical ..read more

All seminars are (normally) on Wednesdays, 3.15pm-5pm. Some are in-person — these are all in Botany House room 1.03 unless otherwise stated. (There is a campus map here.) Others are on Zoom; a link will appear next to the seminar listing below a day or two in advance. (No hybrid seminars at the moment, sorry. We ..read more

Greg’s book, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology, has been published by Chicago University Press. Read Brian Hall’s review of it in Nature here ..read more

The Leeds centre for History and Philosophy of Science is proud to join the list of institutions offering to host a fellow in the 2023 fellowship scheme of EPSA – the European Philosophy of Science Association. These fellowships are designed to foster collaboration between philosophers of science working in Eastern Europe with their colleagues in ..read more