📢 Join us this spring for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 2025/2026!
Explore new perspectives in HSTM. Our seminars run throughout the year, typically on Tuesdays, 1–2 pm on Zoom.
To receive the Zoom link, contact:
krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
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Magnificent Caucasus Mountains from the flight.
Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @xinyueli.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)’s review of @simonnaylor.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk)’s book _The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire _, pub 2024 @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Many thanks for reading and for your kind words. It was a pleasure to read the book.
Laura Fumagalli has created a virtual BJA issue on the aesthetic appreciation of nature. It includes BJA papers ranging from 1963 to 2024. Check it out here. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... #philsky
📢 Call for Presentations!
CHSTM Postgraduate Lunchtime Seminar Series (Spring 2026) invites PhD students to share their research in HSTM.
🗓️ Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
Apply here 👉 forms.gle/rN5SL487xvg1...
Enquiries: krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
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Another seminar date for your diary: we're looking forward to Dr Gemma Cirac Claveras speaking on 25 Nov on Data Wars: International Data Sharing (or not) in Meteorology, 1980s-1990s.
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blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...
One of our CHSTM PhDs, @xinyueli.bsky.social, will give her talk “Bringing the Past to the Future: Discovery of Folk Weather Knowledge in Republican China”
📍 Manchester China Institute
🗓️ 9 Oct 2025 | 🕧 12:30–2:00 pm
Everyone is welcome!
Please mark your diaries for an online workshop on the history of glaciology and polar science in Asia. *(Melting) Ice* - 17 Nov 2025. Attendance is free, but please register for the event.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...
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The CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series is back this semester! 🎉 Our first talk will be on Tuesday, 21 October 2025. Stay tuned for speaker details and more updates! #HistSci #HistMed #CHSTM
On 11 November, jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies, we are welcoming Dr Lewis Bremner (Cambridge) for a talk on The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
Wrapped up our centre’s PGR lunch seminar series @manchstm.bsky.social
for the semester today🎉🎉 I had a wonderful time co-hosting it with my brilliant colleague Daniela Dandes and meeting so many friends. Grateful for the opportunity to learn so much over the past two years.
A wonderful opportunity to apply for a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship in partnership with @royalsociety.org. "Weather Sceptics: Almanacs and the Making of Scientific Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Deadline 6 May. See link for full details. #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social
Come read Fiona Williamson discuss her new book "Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya."
meteohistory.org/2025/writing...
