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The Conversationalist Podcast - Episode 3: 'Volcanoes and Citizen Science at the Royal Society'

Tuesday 15 October 2019

In this episode, we talk to Royal Society Librarian, Keith Moore, about how the Royal Society crowdsourced information about a 19th century volcanic eruption.

Botanical Miscellany

Botanical Miscellany (1830-33)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Botanical Miscellany was the first in a series of periodicals established and edited by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow.

gardeners chronicle

Gardeners’ Chronicle (1841-1985)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Gardener's Chronicle differs from other science periodicals in that it resembles a newspaper rather than a magazine, being printed in three columns and published on a weekly basis.

hardwickes science gossip

Hardwicke's Science-Gossip: an Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature (1865-93)

Saturday 14 September 2019

Hardwicke's Science-Gossip took the first part of its title from Robert Hardwicke (1822-75), who was a prolific publisher of scientific books and journals.

hookers journal

Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany (1849-1857)

Saturday 14 September 2019

Hooker's Journal of Botany is the fourth and final iteration in a series of periodicals edited by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865).

Journal of Botany

Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1863-1942)

Saturday 14 September 2019

Two years before commencing the eponymous periodical Hardwicke's Science-Gossip (1865-93), the publisher Robert Hardwicke (1822-75) collaborated with the German botanist Berthold Carl Seemann (1825-71) to begin the Journal of Botany.

Journal of Botany

Journal of Botany: being a second series of the Botanical miscellany (1834-42)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Journal of Botany, edited by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), continued from where his previous periodical, the Botanical Miscellany (1830-33), had ended.

journal of horticulture

Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman (1861-1878)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Journal of Horticulture was edited by George William Johnson (1802-86), a writer on gardening subjects, and Robert Hogg (1818-97), a nurseryman and botanist (specialising in pomology, the cultivation of fruit).

geological magazine

Journal of Royal Microscopical Society (1878-1922)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Geological Magazine incorporated a previous periodical, the Geologist (1858-64), which had struggled in attaining sufficient circulation to ensure its financial sustainability and was consequently sold by its publisher.

Quekett Journal

Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club (1868-present)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club is unusual in that it would probably never have existed without another periodical, Hardwicke's Science-Gossip (1865-93).

London Journal of Botany

London Journal of Botany (1842-1848)

Saturday 14 September 2019

This periodical is the third in a series of botanical journals to be edited by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865). Once again, he changed the title and publisher, but much of the contents remained very similar to previous versions.

Recreative Science

Recreative Science: Record and Remembrancer of Intellectual Observation (1860-62)

Saturday 14 September 2019

Recreative Science was a short-lived periodical (even by nineteenth-century standards), and as its title suggests, it was aimed at a broad audience who were interested in natural history as an enjoyable hobby.

field naturalist

The Field Naturalist: a review of animals, plants, minerals, the structure of the earth, and appearances of the sky (1833-34)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Field Naturalist was established and edited by James Rennie, a Scottish naturalist who was Professor of Natural History at King's College, London, from 1830-34. He was therefore unusual in this period for earning a salary through his scientific work.

gardeners magazine

The Gardener's Magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826-44)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Gardener's Magazine was edited by John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), a Scottish botanist and influential garden designer.

geologist

The Geologist, a Popular Magazine of Geology (1858-64)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The story of the Geologist is inseparable from that of its editor, Samuel Joseph Mackie (1823-1902), who is in many ways representative of so many individuals who attempted (and very often failed) to earn a living from science.

intellectual observer

The Intellectual Observer: Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research and Recreative Science (1862-68)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Intellectual Observer was a reconfigured version of the discontinued Recreative Science, but as its title suggests, it was aimed at an expanded audience that included those who wanted a little more than amusement alone.

Magazine of Natural History

The Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology (1828-40)

Saturday 14 September 2019

One of the earliest illustrated natural history periodicals in Britain, the Magazine of Natural History was established in 1828 by the influential Scottish botanist and garden designer John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843).

midland naturalist

The Midland Naturalist: The Journal of the Associated Natural History, Philosophical and Archaeology Societies and Field Clubs of the Midland Counties (1878-1893)

Saturday 14 September 2019

In 1876, natural history societies and 'field clubs' from across the British Midlands (and parts of Wales) formed into a network named the Midland Union of Literary and Scientific Societies.

quarterly geological

The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (1845-1970)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Geological Society of London was founded in 1807, essentially as a dining club where gentlemen could meet to enjoy scientific conversation over a good meal (and plenty of drink).

wiltshire magazine

Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine (1854-present)

Saturday 14 September 2019

The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine was (and remains) the official publication of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.

Sarah Green leading an event during St Anne's Family Day

Past, Present, or Fiction?: Playing Mind-Boggling Medical History

Monday 3 June 2019

The room is quiet. Groups of students – year ten mostly – have just been given little piles of cards to sort through. Each card has a statement about medicine.

Edited photograph of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s image of a nerve cell. Originally taken by Irene Tobón and posted on Flickr commons. Some rights reserved.

Videos from Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health

Monday 3 June 2019

See the videos from our conference, Mind Reading: Adolescence, Literature and Mental Health

Sydney demonstrating how to animate a penguin before the audience’s eyes! Photo credit: Nathan Buckley.

People-Powered Science! Citizen Science in Bradford

Tuesday 16 April 2019

On Saturday 9th March, the Constructing Scientific Communities Project visited the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, for a day of exploring animation and citizen science as part of British Science Week.

Engraving of an alchemist

Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Trinity Term 2019

Thursday 11 April 2019

Our final seminar series of the project is announced.

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