New issue of the BJHS (March 2026) out now!

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the British Journal for the History of Science has arrived!

This issue brings together a rich set of contributions that explore how scientific knowledge is produced, communicated, and imagined across different contexts. It opens with Manon Williams’ study of post-mortem practices in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, followed by Joyce Dixon’s analysis of how Charles Darwin used Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours to communicate observations across distance.

Further contributions examine the literary strategies of British civil engineers in the late 18th century (Ellen Packham), the role of speculative imagination in the popular science writing of Jane Webb Loudon (John Lidwell-Durnin), and the relationship between scientific method and the work of Francis Bacon in the thought of Johann Christop Sturm (Christian Henkel).

The issue also includes two essay reviews by Veli Virmajoki and Rachel Mason Dentinger, engaging with questions of disciplinarity and imagination, alongside the journal’s extensive book review section.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our outgoing book review editors, Joseph Martin and Coreen McGuire, for their work in developing the journal’s reviews section, and we look forward to working with our incoming reviews editor, Emily Webster.

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