Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of
Manchester, UK
Lunchtime seminars, February-June 2008
The lunchtime seminar is held on most Tuesdays during the teaching semester,
unless otherwise indicated at 1pm in the CHSTM Seminar Room, 2.57 Simon
Building, University of Manchester. Lunchtime seminars are typically no more
than 30 minutes in length, followed by a period for audience questions (ending
before 2pm.)
Each semester's lunchtime seminar series is organised by postgraduates within
the Centre. The current organisers are Ray Macauley, Ian Miller and Melissa
Smith. For full details see our website at <www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm>.
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5 February
David Edgerton, Imperial College
Rethinking the History of British Science and Technology in the Second World War?
12 February
Steve Ridge, Wellcome Institute, UCL
Making the History of Medicine More Historical: writing against the invariant
self
19 February
Hermione Giffard, Imperial College, London
The Wonder Jet: The Whittle Myth, Invention and the Historiography of the Jet
26 February
Ryan Johnson, Oxford University
"Going Abroad to Lonely Posts": Missionaries and British Imperial Medicine
4 March
Claire Jones, University of Leeds
"Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising": the origins and
rise of the medical trade catalogue in Britain'
11 March
Ian Martin, CHSTM
Making Space for Computers in the Business of Banking: Barclays and Britain in
the 1960s
18 March
Mari Webel, Columbia University
Tanzanian Sleeping Sickness
8 April
Jo Baines, CHSTM
Cancer Personalities: Cancer and the Individual in Britain, 1850-2000
15 April
Debbie McCollin, CHSTM
The Pursuit of Disease: Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory, 1953-61
22 April
Tom Lean, CHSTM
"In Just a Day You'll Be Talking To It Like An Old Friend": The Development of
The 1980's Home Microcomputer in Britain.
29 April
Anna Carlsson, CHSTM
Storms in Newspapers in the Twentieth Century
6 May
Paul Marshall, CHSTM
Electron Guns at Dawn: the British Television Systems Duel of 1936
13 May
John Krige, Georgia Tech (CHSTM Visiting Fellow)
Science, technology and American hegemony
20 May
Alice Nicholls, CHSTM
Intensive Care in Britain
27 May
James Farry, CHSTM
History of the British space programme
3 June
Melissa Smith, CHSTM
Scientists in the Civil Defence Corps, 1945-68
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