Programme Presentations will take place at the King’s Manor, University of York, 0n Tuesday 4th June and the morning of Wednesday 5th June. The conference dinner will take place on the evening of Tuesday 4th June. The SHNH AGM will be held after lunch on Wednesday 5th June. The afternoon tour on Wednesday 5th June […]
Read moreA two and half day international conference with keynote speakers Thom van Dooren and William Gervase Clarence-Smith.
Read moreSHNH summer meeting and AGM in association with the British Ornithologists’ Club World Museum Liverpool Thursday 14th and Friday 15th June 2018 (Lunch and tour of Knowsley Hall, Wednesday 13th June) Booking Form Programme Abstracts 2018 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific. A pivotal moment in the history […]
Read moreHugh Torrens is chairing the panel discussion at this meeting on 9th November. Papers cover the Society’s awards for producing county maps, the campaign for a national water supply, the Society’s encouragement of the British marble industry, Humphry Davy and mineral collection, the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, the Royal School of Mines outreach programme and making […]
Read moreWomen in the History of Natural Sciences, 15-16 June 2017 The SHNH summer meeting and AGM will be held in Cumbria on the 15th & 16th June 2017 (AGM on 15th June) at the University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus and the Freshwater Biological Association, Far Sawrey on the west side of Lake Windermere, opposite Bowness on […]
Read moreMaria Sibylla Merian Conference Amsterdam 7 – 9 June 2017 Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) is one of the more intriguing figures of scientific, artistic and commercial culture of the early modern period. Born in Frankfurt, and later based in Nuremberg, Wieuwerd and Amsterdam, her scientific interest in entomology led her eventually to Surinam, where, as […]
Read moreSo Many Celestial Animals so Vividly Drawn: Birds and Their Images in Pre-Linnaean Italy The Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BF Please note date change to Thursday 9th February 2017 The Paper Museum, formed by the collector and patron Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657), contains more than 200 watercolours of birds, ranging […]
Read moreSociety for the History of Natural History Summer Event & AGM Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, East Anglia, Friday 1st July 2016 The SHNH – Society for the History of Natural History Summer 2016 event and AGM on Norwich Naturalists will be held on Friday 1st July 2016 at the Castle Museum Norwich, […]
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