News Dear BSHS Members, The BSHS Council met at the end of October, and I am delighted to share with you some of the latest updates on the Society’s activities. Council members were still buzzing from the success of our Annual Conference in Cambridge, which featured over 200 speakers from over 20 countries, an exceptional programme, an impeccable organization, and the most generous hosting by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Combined with the lively BSHS presence at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Dunedin, which took place just before the BSHS Annual Conference, the past summer has been great in bringing together our international community. And the momentum has not stopped even now that winter is approaching, the days are shorter, and teaching has resumed. Here are a few highlights of events, prizes, and some exciting news from our last Council meeting. Prizes! The BSHS Outreach and Engagement Committee has announced the winner of the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize. The prize has been awarded to Renée Bergland, for the book Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science (Princeton University Press). We are currently planning an online event about the book – so look out for further announcements! The summer has been an exciting season for other prizes awarded by the indefatigable Outreach and Engagement Committee (they do like to keep busy!). The 2024 Ayrton Prize was awarded in June, and the winner is the excellent HPS Podcast. Highly commended for its novelty and creativity was also the Making and Knowing Project. And last but not least, the 2024 Exhibiting Excellence Prize was also announced in September. The Large Exhibitions Category has two joint winners: Measuring Difference, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CSHI), Harvard, and Breaking Grounds, Oxford Museum of Natural History. In the Small Exhibitions category, the winner is Capturing the Stars: The Untold Story of Women at Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago Library. All these prizes require a great deal of organisation, time commitment, and dedication to the Society. We are fortunate to have a large and experienced group of judges and prize chairs, all coordinated by the unstoppable Ross MacFarlane. A big thank you for this year’s efforts goes to Alice White and Subhadra Das, co-chairs of the Hughes Prize, and the Prize’s judges Hana Aayoob, Xine Yao, Hira Asif, and Oliver Carpenter. We are also grateful to Heather Bennet for chairing the Ayrton Prize, and Deborah Cohen for chairing the Exhibiting Excellence Prize. These prizes are complemented by the Project Grants, which the Outreach and Engagement Committee evaluates and awards three times a year. These have been admirably organised by Allan Jones and Lenka Schmalisch, and I want to take this opportunity to thank both on behalf of the BSHS for all their work! Feel free to contact Allan directly (details on the Project Grants page) with any queries on this exciting engagement opportunity. And please look out for further announcements about Prizes! This year we will award the 2026 Pickstone Prize for the best scholarly book in the history of science, and the 2026 Singer Prize, for the best essay in the history of science by an early-career researcher. The closing date for nominations for the Pickstone Prize is 31 January 2026. Calls for nominations (Pickstone) and submissions (Singer) will be out soon. BJHS News I am delighted to announce that Adam Mosley has formally joined the British Journal of the History of Science as co-editor, alongside the brilliant Amanda Rees, who will be now editor-in-chief. Adam brings exceptional expertise in early modern science, particularly early modern astronomy, and will look after submissions on the pre-modern period, the history of the physical sciences, material and book culture, and the histories of scientific communities, among other areas. His appointment marks a new stage in the life of the BJHS, which will gradually move to a rotating team of three editors. With the transition to open access and the fast-changing publishing landscape, this is a very welcome strategy to build additional resilience in our fantastic journal, bringing an even broader range of expertise to its already exceptional coverage. ESHS/HSS meeting in Edinburgh, and the BSHS around the world As you will know, the BSHS is serving in a consultative capacity in support of the upcoming HSS/ESHS meeting in Edinburgh (13-16 July 2026). We are especially grateful to Aileen Fyfe and Graeme Gooday for representing the BSHS as programme co-chairs. They will be supported by ten other BSHS members who have kindly volunteered (if you are one of them: thank you!) to work on the programme reviews team alongside colleagues from HSS and ESHS. We are already seeing a lot of enthusiasm for the meeting, with colleagues from all over the world taking out calls for panel proposals. We very strongly encourage submissions and partnerships with colleagues worldwide, in the spirit of diversity and collaboration that is so distinctive of our Society. The call for papers is open for submissions until 1 December; more details can be found at https://hssonline.org/page/2026cfp. There are even more good news from our commitment to the history of science on a truly global scale. At the last General Assembly of the Division for the History of Science and Technology in Dunedin, our very own member of Council and Conferences Committee Chair Sam Robinson was elected Engagement Secretary on the DHST Council. Sam has consistently served as a liaison with the DHST over the years, and the results of these elections serve as formal recognition of his indefatigable work to ensure the BSHS continues to develop and nurture its collaborations with colleagues and research groups around the world. Updates from the DHST are now a standing item on the BSHS Council agenda, and I aim to report regularly on news and developments in this newsletter. New PGR Representative The BSHS postgraduate community has a new representative, and if you attended the BSHS Annual Conference you might have seen her already in action — and were certainly impressed by her enthusiasm and energy! Mika Hyman will take on the role, succeeding the brilliant Elena Morgana. A heartfelt thank you to Elena for all the work she has put into bringing together