SHAC Spring Meeting
New and Old Themes in the History of Chemistry
Saturday 20 May, 2017

Location: Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London

PROGRAMME

10.00     Registration and Coffee

10.30     Carolyn Cobbold (University of Cambridge)

Yeast, a Problem. The Rise of Chemical Bread Technologies in the 19th century

11.00     Rupert Cole (UCL / RI) 

‘Chemist has the answer’ (The Guardian): George Porter, a cheerleader for chemistry in post-war Britain

11.30     Coffee

12.00     Aileen Fyfe (University of St Andrews)

The development of non-commercial science journals, in Victorian Britain and beyond

12.30     Sally Horrocks (University of Leicester / BL)

‘I wish I could say I had a little chemistry set at home’: What does oral history really tell us about scientists’ childhoods?

1.00       Lunch

2.00       David Knight (University of Durham)

Losers and Winners

2.30       Hattie Lloyd (UCL / RI) 

Fashion and Chemistry – the Incongruous Union

3.00       John Brooke (University of Oxford)

               Chemistry and Secularity: From the Most to the Least Spiritual of the Sciences

3.30       Tea

4.00       Bill Brock (University of Leicester) 

Distilling History through the Ambix

4.30       Round table including Bill Brock, John Brooke and David Knight

5.30       Close

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