Tuesday 26 October

(Research seminar at 5pm, tea from 4.30, just turn up)

 

Wahida Amin (RI/Salford University)

Humphry Davy, Poetry and the Bristol Romantic Circles

 

 

Friday 19 November

(Public talk at 7pm; turn up or pre-book at www.rigb.org; this is connected with the meeting that afternoon to mark the 75^th anniversary of SHAC, see www.ambix.org)

Professor Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge)

The unfortunate chemist - tribulations of chemical philosophy in an age of revolution

 

Wednesday 24 November

(Public event at 7pm; turn up or pre-book at www.rigb.org)

Science that changed the world

Frank James, David Wootton, Rob Iliffe and Jim Secord will talk about the work of Faraday, Galileo, Newton and Darwin.

This event is being held to mark the publication by Oxford University Press of Frank James’s, Michael Faraday: A Very Short Introduction

 

 

Tuesday 30 November

(Research seminar at 5pm, tea from 4.30, just turn up)

 

Dr Jon Agar (UCL)

Dad's Radioactive Army: Scientists, Engineers (and Philosophers) as Volunteers in Post-Chernobyl Britain

 

 

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New:

 

Volume 5 of Faraday's correspondence has now been published. Further details from

http://www.theiet.org/publishing/books/history/faraday-correspondence-vol5.cfm

 

 

Frank A.J.L. James

Professor of the History of Science

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