7) Science, Culture and Modern State Formation, by Patrick Carroll ( Read more... )

I work here at the heart of the EU district in Brussels; I tend to conceive of the geography of the area in terms of international politics - my own office building is home to Belgium's permanent representation to the EU at the bottom, and Scotland's EU office at the top. If you pull out a bit, you can see the distinctive four-pointed star of the ( Read more... )

24) Mr Belloc Objects To "The Outline Of History", by H.G. Wells

Reading this is a bit like reading someone's livejournal entry when you have only one person's side of the story. H.G. Wells published his Outline of History in 1920; Hilaire Belloc published a series of articleds castigating it as anti-Christian and immoral over the next few years; ( Read more... )

Jim Bennett was my supervisor for my M Phil in Cambridge, and then the external examiner for my Ph D; he's now in charge of the Museum for the History of Science in Oxford, and it was a pleasant surprise to hear his Belfast tones on Radio 4 this morning talking about his new exhibition on Marconi and the early history of radio ( Read more... )

My history of science days, and especially my PhD thesis, are long behind me now, so it was rather pleasant to get not one but two emails about it this morning ( Read more... )

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