Remedy for British science

Save British Science

What is it famous for? It's not really, but whenever science policy is discussed in the UK media, government, or in industry, it's a fair bet that Save British Science (SBS) will be in the fray. SBS is the leading lobby group for science in the UK. The 'science' it aims to save includes any activity that develops and applies scientific understanding, including medicine, mathematics, engineering...

British Contributions to Medical Science

British Contributions to Medical Science, edited by WILLAM C. GiBSON, London, Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1971, pp. xi, 302, £3.50. Every foreigner has to admit that among the medical men whom England has produced there are many who belong to the class of genius: Harvey, Sydenham, Willis, Heberden, Jenner, Bright, Addison, Lister, Osler, Fleming and many more occupy a suffici...

Probing the Origins of British Romantic Science

Richard Holmes produces in this engaging book a vivid description of the Wild West nature of scientific knowledge at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century, a period usefully described by Holmes as a time of " romantic science. " While romanticism is familiar to students of literature and art history, it is less well established as a helpful way of periodi...

Margaret Thatcher's influence on British science.

In September 1986 I took leave of absence from the board of Consolidated Gold Fields, where I was responsible for business development in Australia and America, having been invited to join the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. My brief was to advise on business and industrial issues such as the privatization of the motor industry, shipbuilding and electricity, as well as the reforms of the financia...

The British Society for the History of Science