Edwardian Science

a BSHS conference at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
on 21 May 200

Was there a distinctive "Edwardian" cultural period? What are the
implications for history of science?

Provisional speakers include:

Robert Olby
'Introduction'

Peter Bowler
`Creative Evolution and the New Theology: Changing
Attitudes to Evolutionism in Edwardian Britain'

Robin Mackie & Gerrylynn Roberts
'Edwardian Chemistry: A Period of Educational. Institutional and Employment
Change'

Keith Vernon
`Professionalization and Public Service: Scientists, Civil  Servants
and the Invention of Research, 1900 -1916'

Ivan Crozier
'The Political and Social Contexts of Havelock Ellis' Sexology'

Ivor Grattan-Guinness
`Bertrand Russell on Empire in the 1900s'

William Kimler
`The Domestication of Exotic Entomology:  The Hope Museum, 1893-1913'

Gregory Radick
`Hobhouse at the Zoo'

George Wilkins
`Sir Norman Lockyer and the British Science Guild'

David Knight
General discussion and summing up.

The meeting has been organised by Professor Robert Olby
and Professor David Knight.

The BSHS EGM will be held at this meeting.

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