This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than thirty years. It is also used extensively by historians and scholars in related fields. A substantial book review section is a central feature. There are four issues a year, comprising an annual volume of over 600 pages.
Research articles
Unfriendly guardians: India's first nuclear leadership change in 1966 Ji Yeon-Jung The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 1–17 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000618 Published Online on 19 February 2021
Ambition, ‘failure’ and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry Rebecca Wynter The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 19–40 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000017 Published Online on 17 February 2021
Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young James A. Secord The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 41–59 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000631 Published Online on 11 March 2021
Robert M. Young's Mind, Brain and Adaptation revisited Christopher Lawrence The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 61–77 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000667 Published Online on 17 February 2021
Forum: Obituary
Maurice Pierre Crosland (1931–2020): an appreciation Crosbie Smith The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 79–85 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000643 Published Online on 19 February 2021
Forum: New Perspectives
Out on the fringe: Wales and the history of science Iwan Rhys Morus The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 87–97 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000655 Published Online on 11 March 2021
Forum: Science in Translation
DNA translated: Friedrich Miescher's discovery of nuclein in its original context Kersten Hall, Neeraja Sankaran The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 99–107 doi: 10.1017/S000708742000062X Published Online on 19 February 2021
Book reviews
Ido Hartogsohn, The American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 432. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3914-2. $35.00 (paperback) Andrew Jones The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 109–111 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000066 Published Online on 11 May 2021
Antony Adler, Neptune's Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 256. ISBN: 978-0-6749-7201-8. £31.95 (hardback) Penelope K. Hardy The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 111–113 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000078 Published Online on 11 May 2021
Mark Solovey, Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the ‘Other Sciences’ at the National Science Foundation Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 398. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3905-0. $50.00 (paperback) Katherine Ambler The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 113–114 doi: 10.1017/S000708742100008X Published Online on 11 May 2021
Tom Williamson, Humphry Repton: Landscape Design in an Age of Revolution London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-1-7891-4299-0. £35.00 (hardcover) H.-F. Dessain The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 115–116 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000091 Published Online on 11 May 2021
Emma Griffin, Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-3002-3006-2. £20.00 (hardback) Lindsay Middleton The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 117–118 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000108 Published Online on 11 May 2021
Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 987-1-4214-3874-0. $54.95 (hardback) Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 118–120 doi: 10.1017/S000708742100011X Published Online on 11 May 2021
Audra Wolfe, Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 302. ISBN 978-1-4214-2673-0. $29.95 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-4214-3908-2. $19.95 (paperback) Vedran Duančić The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 120–122 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000121 Published Online on 11 May 2021
Vaughn Scribner, Merpeople: A Human History London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN: 978-1-7891-4314-0. £20.00 (hardback) Stephanie Eichberg The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 122–124 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000133 Published Online on 11 May 2021
Alexander Jones and Liba Taub (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1, Ancient Science Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix + 642. ISBN 978-0-511-98014-5. £120.00 (hardback) Michalis Sialaros The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 124–125 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000145 Published Online on 11 May 2021
Maria M. Portuondo, The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 446. ISBN 978-0-2265-9226-8. $65.00 (hardback) Noah Moxham The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 126–128 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000157 Published Online on 11 May 2021
Elizabeth A. Williams, Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2266-9304-0. $35.00 (paperback) David F. Smith The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 128–129 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000169 Published Online on 11 May 2021
Paola Bertucci, Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-3002-2741-3. $40.00 (hardcover) Jens Amborg The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 130–131 doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000170 Published Online on 11 May 2021