Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry

Interested in becoming a member of SHAC? Membership information can be found here: ambix.org/membership/sub…

Ever wonder how women learned about experimental science during the long eighteenth century? Join me (for free!) at 5 pm (GMT) on 21 November to hear more my research on the topic: youtube.com/live/veM-pG9Tr… #histsci #hstm #hps #sts @WomensHistNet @SHACorg @BSHSNews

📢 2nd CfP! A final slot is available for a paper in the session on the 20th Century pesticide industry at #ICHC2025, sponsored by @SHACorg. esdeveniments.uv.es/116631/detail/… 📅Submission (extended) deadline: December 20th 📩Send proposal to: silvia.perez-criado@uv.es.

The seminar will be also accessible live on YouTube at youtube.com/live/-8Qhfb6lb… Most previous on-line seminars can be found on the SHAC YouTube Channel: youtube.com/SocietyforHist…

This will be live on Thursday, 23 January 2025, beginning at 5.00pm GMT (6.00pm CET, 12 noon ET, 9.00am PT). The Zoom link can be freely accessed by anyone, member of SHAC or not, by booking through the following Ticket Source link: ticketsource.co.uk/society-for-th…

The next on-line seminar of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry will be given by Dr. @sarahhijmans (Université Paris Cité) who will present: Not quite simple: The classification of “undecompounded bodies” in nineteenth-century chemical textbooks

For the 2025 edition, the awardee will be invited as guest to 14ICHC which is taking place in Valencia, Spain, 11-14 June 2025. The awardee will also commit to an interview to be shared through the CHCMS website and YouTube channel.

CHCMS Early Career Lecture Award - Call for nominations The deadline for submitting nominations is 30 December 2024. The CHCMS Early Career Lecturer will be announced in February 2025. For more information check the website: chcms.org/awards.html

SHAC Special ICHC14 Award Scheme – grants to support attendance at ICHC14 in Valencia, Spain, 11–14 June 2025 For more information including application requirements and instructions see: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

As with most previous seminars, this seminar will be also accessible live on YouTube at youtube.com/live/veM-pG9Tr…

Join Professor Matthew Daniel Eddy (University of Durham) for the presentation and moderated discussion live by booking through the following Ticket Source link: ticketsource.co.uk/society-for-th…

SHAC's next online seminar to be held on 21 November at 5:00 PM GMT on the topic of "A Very Curious Subject: Jane Ewbank, Public Lectures and Experimental Philosophy in Late Georgian York"

For more information or how to apply see our Call for Papers: ambix.org/call-for-paper…

#CfP We are organizing a SHAC panel for the upcoming @ICHCA2 14th International Conference on the History of Chemistry to be held in Valencia in June 2025: esdeveniments.uv.es/116631/detail/…

More information can be found here: facebook.com/share/p/hedzhJ…

To nominate yourself or a colleague please submit a CV and two letters of support by 30 June 2025 to Professor Annette Lykknes: annette.lykknes[at]ntnu.no

The Society would like to introduce the recently established Brock Award in honor of Professor William 'Bill' Hodson Brock to be awarded every 3 years for outstanding contributions to the field

Offers of papers with a short description should be sent to the SHAC chair, Professor Frank James (frank.james[at]ucl.ac.uk) by 17 December 2024

🚨Call for Abstracts: 2025 Spring meeting on The Biographies of Alchemists and Chemists to be held on Saturday 29 March 2025 at University College London

📢 CfP! We are organizing a session on the 20th-century pesticide industry at #ICHC2025, sponsored by @SHACorg. 🌱Join us in exploring the historical, social, and environmental impacts of pesticides. Submit your proposal by November 15th to silvia.perez-criado@uv.es.

You can now see the results of this work on Lancaster Digital Collections at digitalcollections.lancaster.ac.uk.

The Davy Notebooks Project is glad to announce that we have fully transcribed all 120 of Humphry Davy’s notebooks and sets of lecture notes: wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/