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About Viewpoint

Viewpoint is the colourful and entertaining magazine of the BSHS. Launched in its present form in 2006, it appears as an A4-format publication aimed at a broad readership, featuring articles, opinions, reviews and interviews addressing the history of science, technology and medicine, and drawing on the Society’s Outreach and Education activities. Viewpoint is published three times a year, in February, June and October. Enquiries about circulation, including subscription requests, should be sent to the BSHS Executive Secretary at office@bshs.org.uk. Viewpoint is free to all BSHS members and is priced at £12.00 per year for non-members based in the UK and £17 a year for overseas non-members.

We are currently working on making a complete archive available online. You can access numerous past issues as PDFs via the BSHS website. If you cannot find a specific issue on this page, we kindly ask for your patience.

Editor

Dr Joe Holloway is an early career researcher currently teaching philosophy and medical humanities at the university of Exeter, researching the intersection between the history of science and critical disability studies. He was book reviews editor for Literature & History as well as editor for the Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities and the postgraduate journal Exclamat!on.

Contributions and Advertisements.

All contributions and correspondence should be sent to the Editor, Joe Holloway, at viewpoint@bshs.org.uk. Instructions for contributors can be found in pdf here. The Editor will always consider advertisements regarding new appointments but, as a general rule, other advertisements are not printed in this publication. However, for an appropriate charge, leaflets advertising suitable events, publications, etc, can be sent out with Viewpoint subject to size and postage restrictions. Full details are available from the BSHS Executive Secretary.

Latest Issue

Issue 132
Issue 132
Explore the crossover between photgraphy and
astrophysics: the difficulties of evidencing the very
small, the very large, and the humans involved.

Recent Issues

Click on cover images to see a .pdf of each full issue

Issue 131
Issue 131
This issue introduces some of the crosslinks between the history of science and the history of our bodies and health.
Issue 130
Issue 130
In this issue we set out to explore all the ways the history of science, medicine and technology intersect with the natural world, and our contributors for this issue certainly reflect the breadth of the field.
Issue 129
Issue 129
This month we’re focusing on a critical topic facing the history of science, medicine, and technology:
racism and racial bias.
Issue 128
Issue 128
Follow us on a journey of the history of sciences, medicine, and technology from the past to the present in this final issue of 2022
Issue 127
Issue 127
Find HSTM stories uncovered by local communities, heritage groups, and more in the latest issue of Viewpoint
Issue 126
Issue 126
This issue explores the history of communication and communicating in the history of science, medicine, and technology
Issue 125
Issue 125
Exploring everything and anything in the history of science, medicine, and technology
Issue 124
Issue 124
Follow the transnational history of science, medicine, and technology in this issue on Travelling Science
Issue 123
Issue 123
This issue explores the thrilling history of the relationship between science and industrie
Issue 122
Issue 122
Coming soon
Issue 121
Issue 121
Water: the stuff of life? This issue takes
a look at the scientific, technological,
and medicinal significance and impacts
of water throughout history.
Issue 120
Issue 120
Follow us into the history of environmental research in some of the world’s coldest regeions
Issue 119
Issue 119
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, this issue is dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning+ (LGBTQ+) lives and issues in the history of science, technology, and medicine
Issue 118
Issue 118
Does war always lead to scientific
advancement? This issue features a
selection of responses to this question.
Issue 117
Issue 117
This issue commemorates the 2018 centenary of women’s suffrage in the UK with a collection of articles on women in the history of science.
Issue 116
Issue 116
This issue’s theme is unity and disunity.

Issue 115
Issue 115
This issue looks at space and place, featuring research in the history of geography.
Issue 114
Issue 114
This issue focuses on race in the history of science
Issue 113
Issue 113
This issue is devoted to the history of those who have gone in pursuit of knowledge of the furthest reaches of the cosmos.
Issue 112
Issue 112
We’ve got ancient science writing, a piece on medical ethics, then and now, and an in-depth analysis of the myriad meanings of milk throughout history!

Issue 111
Issue 111
A choose-your-own History of Science adventure, featuring articles on stories and the field!
Issue 110
Issue 110
Viewpoint explores European history of science!
Issue 109
Issue 109
To whet your appetite for the online copy of issue 109, the special Ayrton Issue on digital histsci, we bring you a bonus feature article! Professor Chris Green of the University of York highlights some of the digital methods being pioneered to study the history of psychological science by the “PsyBorgs”.