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A reminder for the London Metropolitan Archives Women in Science conference on 8 March. This links with our current work on science within our archive, engaging our audiences, and International Women’s Day.

 

Science is found throughout the collections at the London Metropolitan Archives. We have engineering designs for Tower Bridge and food science in the Lyons collection, not to mention Robert Hooke’s diary.

 

Staff at the LMA will look at female scientists represented in the archives and displaying some of the original documents from the collections.

 

We have two guest speakers, Rebekah Higgitt and Heather Couper. Rebekah is Curator & Historian of Science at Royal Observatory Greenwich & National Maritime Museum and blogger for The H Word, the Guardian Science Blog. She will be talking about “Finding women in the history of science.”

 

Heather Couper is a broadcaster and writer on astronomy, space and science. She has written and produced numerous books, TV and radio programmes. Along with her work, she is Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College in perpetuity, was awarded the CBE for 'Services to Science', and the International Astronomical Union has named asteroid number 3922 "Heather".  Her talk will be “The Sky's the Limit.”

 

The day takes place at the London Metropolitan Archives, Friday 8 March, from 10am – 4 pm. Bring a picnic, as lunch is not provided. The cost is £10.

 

To book a place phone 020 7332 3851, or contact Howard Benge for more details. [log in to unmask]

 

Regards,

 

Howard

 

 

Howard Benge

Development Officer

London Metropolitan Archives
Culture, Heritage and Libraries Department
City of London
Tel: 020 7332 3851

 

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