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 article
Science, Catholicism and politics in Argentina (1910–1935) MIGUEL DE ASÚA The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 139–158 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000047 Published Online on 6 April 2020
Cultivating famine: data, experimentation and food security, 1795–1848 JOHN LIDWELL-DURNIN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 159–181 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000199 Published Online on 2 June 2020
Eating game: proteins, international conservation and the rebranding of African wildlife, 1955–1965 RAF DE BONT The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 183–205 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000023 Published Online on 3 April 2020
Archaeology enters the ‘atomic age’: a short history of radiocarbon, 1946–1960 EMILY M. KERN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 207–227 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000011 Published Online on 13 March 2020
The green airliner that never was: aerodynamic theory, fuel-efficiency and the role of the British state in aviation technology in the mid-twentieth century GRAHAM SPINARDI The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 229–254 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000035 Published Online on 13 April 2020
Programming the USSR: Leonid V. Kantorovich in context IVAN BOLDYREV, TILL DÜPPE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 255–278 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000059 Published Online on 8 April 2020
Book review
Nicole C. Nelson, Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-2265-4608-7. $30.00 (paperback). Tarquin Holmes The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 279–280 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000254 Published Online on 15 July 2020
Joshua Nall, News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860–1910. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 287. ISBN 978-0-8229-4552-9. $50.00 (hardcover). Charlotte Sleigh The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 281–282 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000266 Published Online on 15 July 2020
Richard J. Oosterhoff, Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Etaples, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-1988-2352-0. £65.00 (hardback). Paolo Rossini The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 282–283 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000278 Published Online on 15 July 2020
JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-1-4214-2889-5. $64.95 (hardcover). Thomas P. Weber The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 283–285 doi: 10.1017/S000708742000028X Published Online on 15 July 2020
Ian Duncan, Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-6911-7507-2. £30.00 (hardcover). H.-F. Dessain The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 285–287 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000291 Published Online on 15 July 2020
Martin Beech, Going Underground: The Science and History of Falling through the Earth. New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Chennai and Tokyo: World Scientific, 2019. Pp. xi + 276. ISBN 978-9813-2790-3-2. £35.00/$38.00 (paperback). Todd K. Timberlake The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 53 / Issue 2, June 2020, pp 287–288 doi: 10.1017/S0007087420000308 Published Online on 15 July 2020