While the MRC and Royal Society are interesting precedents, the real kick
off for public science came in the Second World War.
Two books worth pursuing, if you can find them, are: "Science at War"
published in 1947 by the DSIR/HMSO (see earlier messages) at 2 shillings and
six pence; and Science and The Nation, also published in 1947 by Penguin at
1 shilling.
Both are very interesting and offer some good insights into the growth of
public science.
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Thanks to everyone for info and websites - all really useful - I am
looking for info from fairly far back in terms of the rationale for
starting to fund science publicly.
- most of the sites mentioned have something on that - either from the
public health perspective or technology/innovation side of things
Thanks again - any more ideas welcome!
Rachel
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From: Mary [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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The MRC was set up in 1913 to work on TB. As Barbara says, it was
originally called the Medical Research Committee. It changed its name
in
1920.
Mary
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The National Insurance Act of 1911 apportioned insurance revenues for
the purposes of medical research. From this came the Medical Research
Committee, forerunner of the Medical Research Council.
This from an article in RDS News by Dr Tilli Tansey of the Wellcome
Trust Institute for the History of Medicine, published July 1993. Most
of the article is about the development of the distemper vaccine in the
1920s and the battle between MRC and antivivisection groups over the use
of dogs in this research.
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> From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Colin Johnson
> Sent: 10 August 2006 14:31
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>
> Rachel
>
> I don't know how far you want to go back, but I quote from
>
> http://www.lib.uea.ac.uk/lib/libinf/find/archives/zuckerman/ge
> ndsir.htm
>
> to tell you that;
>
> "The DSIR was one of the earliest of the research councils to
> be established, in 1916, and came into being in the light of
> the realisation that Britain was falling behind so far as the
> quality of its applied scientific research and technological
> innovation were concerned."
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> DSIR was the 'Department for Scientific and Industrial
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> > From: Rachel Brazil <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:07:50 +0100
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> > Hi,
> > Does anyone know where I might find some brief info on the
> history of
> > public funding for science in the UK.
> > A Science Research Council was founded in 1965 but I cant find
> > anything on what happened before that!
> >
> > Its just for a short blurb for a seminar invitation so I am not
> > looking for any great tome - but if anyone has info on this
> - please
> > let me know
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
> > Rachel
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