Dr Rachel Boon

Congratulations to @jodrellbank for winning the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize in the category Large Exhibitions awarded by our Outreach and Engagement Committee! Learn more here, and make sure to check out the fantastic exhibition if you can! bshs.org.uk/winners-bshs-e… 🍾🎉

Don't forget about our Engagement Fellowships! We fund Master's or PhD students cooperating with heritage organisations and museums for the equivalent of a month's work. Deadline is April 17. Find out more here: buff.ly/3mtcrIy #BSHSOEC

The @royalsociety s Lisa Jardine Grant for early-career researchers doing archival research in #HistSci is open again until March 1. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to get support for your projects! bit.ly/LJRSMai

Exciting news for @bawdseyradar & 13 other fantastic organisations! An @Aimuseums grant to create a national collection of community stories of some of the thousands who worked, trained or served at RAF Bawdsey from 1936 to 1991 🥳

We are still recruiting for this fantastic PhD in the material cultures of the NHS. You have until Jan 16th to apply. Please do! Come work with spectacular objects @sciencemuseum - it's what Aneurin Bevan would have wanted! collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8621…

Our 2023 round for the Hughes Prize is now open! We are looking for the best📘📗 1st published in 2021 or 2022 to make #histSTEM available to a broader public - deadline is 31 Dec 2022! Check it out and cover us in fantastic literature! bshs.org.uk/submissions-fo…

An honour to share the stage (& Blue Peter presenter moment) with @billt and Simone Eubanks from BBC R&D at #RadTechCon celebrating 100 years of BBC technology and looking ahead to the next century of broadcasting 📻📺👩‍💻

@jdk653 @sciencemuseum Thanks Jack! Can't celebrate the BBC and not feature our brilliant collection 🙂

@rj_boon @sciencemuseum Just heard you on The World Tonight, very good.

'This is 2LO, Marconi House, London Calling'. 100 years ago (to the minute!) the BBC crackled into life. Find out more about this significant moment in broadcasting history sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-st… & visit the 2LO transmitter in the @sciencemuseum 'Information Age' gallery 📻🎙

@ctimmermann @chstmphds @BBCRadio4 Thanks for the mention Carsten. I always find press quite nerve-wracking, even more so on such a historic BBC day 🙂

Just under a week to apply to join the brilliant BSHS Outreach and Engagement Committee as Chair or a new member! Please get in touch if you have any questions either on here or outreach@bshs.org.uk Voluntary roles, deadline 31 October

Bawdsey Radar needs a new Chair to lead and champion this award-winning, Accredited museum - could it be you? Find out more here bawdseyradar.org.uk/wp-content/upl…… Please can you share so we can get this opportunity in front of as many people as possible? Thank you. #radarlove

The BSHS is looking for a Chair and two new members to join the Outreach and Engagement Committee. Find out more on our website: buff.ly/3rqU71T Deadline: 31 October 2022 #BSHS #HistSci

Bawdsey Radar needs a new Chair to lead and champion this award-winning, Accredited museum - could it be you? Find out more here bawdseyradar.org.uk/wp-content/upl…… Please can you share so we can get this opportunity in front of as many people as possible? Thank you. #radarlove

Call for applications for our @BSHSOutreach Project Grants, providing up to £500 for projects that engage with #HistSci #HistSTM #HSTM in new and exciting ways! Deadline: 23 September 2022 buff.ly/2uAvBl7

You can read more about the history of the Post Office Engineering Research Station in these theses by the 'Dollis Hill Three' Alice Haigh, etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/29008/ me 👋 research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/thes… & @jcobward discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1004…

Congratulations to @davidhay, @jamesofputney, Anne Archer and the fantastic team at BT Archives!

Exciting news from @ArchiveBt! This diary was key & rich source for my PhD. Now the world can read Gordon Radley's account of wartime Dollis Hill & the incredible work of Tommy Flowers, Jimmy Doust & hundreds of Post Office engineers & scientists 👨🏻‍🔧☎️👩🏻‍🏭

#BSHS2022 Sticking with public history, I'm in session 6D. First up, a co-presentation from Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet and Caitjan Gainty @therealcaitjan on responses to Covid-19 and the use of history.

Bit of a last-ditch attempt - does anyone have a photo of Fire Island (Edinburgh nightclub) in its heyday, which you would grant permission to reuse please? Wd love to have a good image for an article about Scottish AIDS activism to publish on @ExploreWellcome website tomorrow.