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- Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Mathematics: Contrasting the Aims and Approaches of Mathematicians, Egyptologists, and Others
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- Bloodletting under the ankle, post-mortem caesarean section, and the role of female expertise in medieval medicine
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- Ancient Mesopotamian Plant Knowledge
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- Jim Bennett and John Heilbron as Historians of Science and Intellectual Historians, by Dmitri Levitin
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- Intercolonial Health Cooperation in the Pacific Islands and the British Empire
- Red Squirrels, Big Data, and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
- Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda
- The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): A “République des lettres” in the Twentieth Century
- The Soundscapes of Herb Women: Mapping Community Healthcare in Early Modern London
- Victorian Women and Algology: The Case of Margaret Scott Gatty (1809–1873)
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- Workshop: Eugenics in the Academy
- History of Science in the Medieval World Summer School
- New under the Sun: Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine by Netta Cohen
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- 2023 Senior Kirkaldy Prize winners announced
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- Singapore pineapples: catch-cropping, Chinese capitalists, and the colonial state, 1900s–1930s
- What’s in a table? Managing astronomical data in early modern Europe
- Physical pain in early modern Europe: texts, signs, and emotions (joint session with HSMT/NOTCOM ERC Project based at the Maison Francaise)
- The Prediction Machine: science, technology, and futurology in British Government, c. 1970-2010
- Infectious Ecologies: Exploring Biological Histories of Epidemics in Colonized Spaces held jointly with the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Can opium addiction be cured? Early cellular-level research in 1930s-China and its international impact
- “There is a fatal facility in the use of technical terms”: a media history perspective on first aid in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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- Science in a Crisis: Assembling knowledge and action in a volcanic colony
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- Of Herbs and Pharmaceuticals: Rethinking the Rise of the Pharmaceutical Industry after the Plant Turn
- Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
- Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
- Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
- Beautifying the City, Poisoning the Lady. About an Odd Victorian Scientific Conversation (1869)
- Darkest before Dawn? Medicine in the English Universities in the Later Middle Ages
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- Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained
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- How the pandemic’s narratives are still unfolding, five years on (The Conversation, 10 March 2025)
- Dr Sarah Dry
- Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
- From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity
- Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
- Asylums at War: the Lancashire lunatic asylums and the Great War, 1914-1922
- Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
- Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
- Engineering the Environment and Imagining Nature in the Early Modern World
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- Translating Trees, Becoming Birds: A discussion on Folk Tales from Meghalaya
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- Dr Yuxin Peng
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- Material Culture in Global History - An Exploratory Workshop
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- Historical perspectives in medical humanities: two views on vaccination during the plague pandemic in Calcutta, by Utsa Bose
- Rebeca Kritsch
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