Saturday 24 November 2018
The meeting will be held in Chadwick G07, UCL, Gower Street, London.
For directions please visit: UCL Chadwick Building
PROGRAMME
10.45: Registration. Please feel free to bring coffee with you. Soft drinks will be available at the meeting.
11.00–11.40: Dóra Bobory
Count Batthyány’s Letters on Alchemy – An Editorial Project
11.40-12.20: Umberto Veronesi
The Philosophers and the Crucibles: Chymical Practice from the Old Ashmolean Laboratory, Oxford
12.20-13.00: John R.R. Christie
Gender and the Representation of Chemistry: Two cases from the Eighteenth Century
13.00-14.30: LUNCH BREAK. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide lunch at this meeting but there are various cafés nearby, for example at the Friends Meeting House and Wellcome Library.
14.30-15.10: Frank James
Constructing Humphry Davy’s Biographies
15.10-15.50: William Brock
In Liebig’s Shadow: Heinrich Will (1812-90)
15.50-16.30: Michael Jewess
AERE and AEA Technology 1946-2012
The fee is £10 (SHAC and RSC Historical Group members), otherwise £15.
To register please refer to this information
