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- Blood Far Forward: A History of Battlefield Blood Transfusion in the Second World War
- Discovered: a new Rule of Philosophising by Isaac Newton
- Animals and science in the colonial world
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- Burn: an incendiary history of lockdown Britain
- The British Cotton Belt: carrying Mendel to the edge of empire, 1900-1914
- Prestige asymmetry in the popular image of physics
- A hospital of her own: interwar colonial nurses and the mobility of power
- The origins of medicine in the prehistoric and archaic Greece
- Manuscript cultures of mathematics: east-west networks of knowledge
- Sacred histories of public health: leper asylums and the medical-evangelical state in twentieth-century British India
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- Dr Georgiana D Hedesan
- HAPP Scholarship in the History & Philosophy of Physics
- Dr Alex Aylward
- Workshop: Virus of Hate
- Dr Manikarnika Dutta: Winner of the William Bynum Prize 2021
- 2021 Junior Kirkaldy Prizes Announced
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- Brigitte Stenhouse on BBC World Service - The Forum, Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science
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- Oxford History of Medicine turns 50
- Brilliant Blunders - Mistakes by Great Physicists that changed our understanding of the Universe