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  • 15Spring 2021Issue 15
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    • Editorial by Tim Boon
    • Science and the City: Introduction by Alexandra Rose
    • Science and the City: Valentine Gottlieb, immigrant engineer of Lambeth: his trade card of c. 1810 unpacked by David Bryden
    • Science and the City: The role of women in the science city: London 1650–1800 by Jane Desborough, Gloria Clifton
    • Science and the City: Spaces and geographies of Metropolitan Science by Rebekah Higgitt, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Noah Moxham
    • Clinical images, imperial power and Bhau Daji’s secret treatment for leprosy at the Royal College of Physicians Museum by Kristin D Hussey, Martha Biggins
    • Lyon Playfair: chemist and commissioner, 1818–1858 by Ian Blatchford
    • Inventor, devoted daughter, or lover? Uncovering the life and work of Victorian naval engineer Henrietta Vansittart (1833–1883) by Emily Rees Koerner
    • ‘Iron lung’ as metaphor by Farrah Lawrence-Mackey
    • ‘Your body is full of wounds’: references, social contexts and uses of the wounds of Christ in Late Medieval Europe by Johanna Pollick, Emily Poore, Sophie Sexon, Sara Stradal
    • Book review: Exploring Emotion, Care, and Enthusiasm in “Unloved” Museum Collections, edited by Anna Woodham, Rhianedd Smith and Alison Hess, Leeds, ARC Humanities Press, 2020 by Jennie Morgan
    • Obituary: Dame Margaret Weston, DBE, FMA (7 March 1926–12 January 2021) by Colin Ford
  • 14Curating MedicineIssue 14
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    • Editorial by Sarah Wade
    • Contagious Cities: an international collaborative enquiry by Ken Arnold, Danielle Olsen
    • Artist interviews – new art for Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries by Katy Barrett, Eleanor Crook, Marc Quinn, Studio Roso
    • Curating Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries by Sarah Bond, Katie Dabin, Stewart Emmens, Selina Hurley, Natasha McEnroe
    • Rapid Response Collecting and the Irish Abortion Referendum by Brenda Malone
    • The valuable role of risky histories: exhibiting disability, race and reproduction in medical museums by Manon Parry
    • Misbehaving Bodies: exhibiting illness by George Vasey
    • AIDS memorials from obituaries to artworks – a photo essay by Jörn Wolters
  • 13Spring 2020Issue 13
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    • Festschrift: Ways of curating: introduction to a mini-festschrift in honour of Robert Bud by Tim Boon
    • Festschrift: At the Boundary between Science and Industrial Practices: Applied Science, Arts, and Technique in France by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
    • Festschrift: of mice and myths: challenges and opportunities of capturing contemporary science in museums by Alison Boyle
    • Festschrift: experimenting with research: Kenneth Mees, Eastman Kodak and the challenges of diversification by Jeffrey Sturchio
    • Festschrift: how do we value artefacts in museum research? by Helmuth Trischler
    • Why the anonymous and everyday objects are important: using the Science Museum’s collections to re-write the history of vision aids by Gemma Almond
    • Projecting soldiers’ repair: the ‘Great War’ lantern and the Royal Society of Medicine by Jason Bate
    • A model instrument: the making and the unmaking of a model of the Airy Transit Circle by Daniel Belteki
    • Wounded – an exhibition out of time by Stewart Emmens
    • Curating Ocean Ecology at the Natural History Museum: Miranda Lowe and Richard Sabin in conversation with Pandora Syperek and Sarah Wade by Pandora Syperek, Sarah Wade, Miranda Lowe, Richard Sabin
    • A museum by the people for the people? A review of St Fagans National Museum of History’s new galleries by Miriam Dafydd
    • Review: Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at the World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century
       by Helen Langwick

    • Book review: Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration, The University of Chicago Press, 2019, by Vanessa Heggie by Nanna Kaalund

    • Book review: Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain, by Richard Noakes by Efram Sera-Shriar
  • 12Autumn 2019Issue 12
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    • Technologies of Romance: introduction by Laura Humphreys, Katy Barrett
    • Technologies of Romance: Valentine from a Telegraph Clerk ♂ to a Telegraph Clerk ♀: the material culture and standards of early electrical telegraphy by Elizabeth Bruton
    • Technologies of Romance: on the choice of a typeface for a book and the possibilities for technological Romance by Catherine Dixon
    • Technologies of Romance: Mineralogy: a digital account by Lee Mackinnon
    • Technologies of Romance: looking for ‘object love’ in three works of video art by Paul O’Kane
    • An overlooked eighteenth-century scrofula pamphlet: changing forms and changing readers, 1760–1824 by Hannah Bower
    • New mobile experiences of vision and modern subjectivities in Late Victorian Britain by Sara Dominici
    • Writing sound with a human ear: reconstructing Bell and Blake’s 1874 ear phonautograph by Tom Everrett
    • The museum micro-fellowship by Anna Geurts, Oliver Betts
    • Mobilising the Energy in Store: stored collections, enthusiast experts and the ecology of heritage by Elizabeth Haines, Anna Woodham
    • Collections development in hindsight: a numerical analysis of the Science and Technology collections of National Museums Scotland since 1855 by Tacye Phillipson
    • Book review: The Life and Legend of James Watt by David Phillip Miller by Ben Russell
    • ‘Everything passes, except the past’: reviewing the renovated Royal Museum of Central Africa (RMCA) by Donata Miller
  • 11Spring 2019Issue 11
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    • Editorial by Kate Steiner
    • Wounded: ‘They had no fever…’ Ambroise Paré (1510–1590) and his method of gunshot wounds management by Elena Berger, Sergey Glyantsev
    • Wounded: ‘A small Scar will be much discerned’: treating facial wounds in early modern Britain by Emily Cock
    • Wounded: Healing communal wounds: processions and plague in sixteenth-century Mantua by Marie-Louise Leonard
    • Mind-Boggling Medical History: creating a medical history game for nurses by Sarah Chaney, Sally Frampton
    • A discourse with deep time: the extinct animals of Crystal Palace Park as heritage artefacts by Alison Laurence
    • From the White Man’s Grave to the White Man’s Home? Experiencing ‘Tropical Africa’ at the 1924–25 British Empire Exhibition by Jules Skotnes-Brown
    • A history of amulets in ten objects by Annie Thwaite
    • The provenance and context of the Giustiniani Medicine Chest by Julie Ackroyd
    • A royal gift? Mrs Strangways Horner’s small silver clock, 1740 by Jonathan Betts, Tessa Murdoch
    • In memoriam: Jeff Hughes, 1965–2018 by James Sumner
  • 10Autumn 2018Issue 10
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    • Editorial by Anne Locker
    • The life and material culture of Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923): suffragette, physicist, mathematician and inventor by Elizabeth Bruton
    • Engineering and the family in business: Blanche Coules Thornycroft, naval architecture and engineering design by Keith Harcourt, Roy Edwards
    • Uncovering the secrets of Canadian Pacific by Becky Peacock
    • Wired-up in white organdie: framing women’s scientific labour at the Burden Neurological Institute by David Saunders
    • The history of women in engineering on Wikipedia by Alice White
    • From 2D to 3D: the story of graphene in objects by Sarah Baines
    • The Panstereomachia, Madame Tussaud’s and the Heraldic Exhibition: the art and science of displaying the medieval past in nineteenth-century London by Barbara Gribling
    • Ventriloquised voices: the Science Museum and the Hartree Differential Analyser by Tom Ritchie
    • Tacita Dean: LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE by Katy Barrett
    • Review: Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America, edited by Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017 by Henry A McGhie
  • 09Spring 2018The Material Culture of Energy
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    • Getting to grips with energy: fuel, materiality and daily life by Frank Trentmann
    • ‘As snug as a bug in a rug’: post-war housing, homes and coal fires by Lynda Nead
    • Refrigerating India by Harold Wilhite
    • Making Material and Cultural Connections: the fluid meaning of ‘Living Electrically’ in Japan and Canada 1920–1960 by Heather Chappells, Hiroki Shin
    • Visualising electricity demand: use and users of a 3D chart from the 1950s by Alice Cliff, Jenny Rinkinen
    • Light as material/lighting as practice: urban lighting and energy by Joanne Entwistle, Don Slater
    • Networks of knowledge and power: working collaboratively on the HoNESt project by Stuart Butler
    • The language of Electricity: Jan Hicks in conversation with Bill Morrison by Bill Morrison, Jan Hicks
    • Turning energy around: an interactive exhibition experience by Sarah Kellberg, Christina Newinger
    • Collecting the personal: stories of domestic energy and everyday life at the National Museum of Scotland by Elsa Cox, Katarina Grant, Haileigh Robertson
    • ‘The whole exhibition becomes the stage…’ – a journey through time by children for children as a new approach to peer learning by Sabine Oetzel
    • Energy/Culture: a reading guide for historical literature by Hiroki Shin
  • 08Autumn 2017Issue 08
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    • Editorial by Justin Dillon
    • Museums theme – Adventures in Museology: category building over a century, and the context for experiments in reinvigorating the Science Museum at the turn of the twenty-first century by Robert Bud
    • Museums theme – Quest for Absolute Zero: A Human Story about Rivalry and Cold by Dirk van Delft
    • Museums theme – Science vs technology in a museum’s display: changes in the Vienna Museum of Technology with a focus on permanent and temporary exhibitions and new forms of science education by Peter Donhauser
    • Museums theme – making Split + Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine
       by Martha Fleming
    • Museums theme – Beyond the Black Box: reflections on building a history of chemistry museum by Jennifer Landry
    • Adapting to the emergence of the automobile: a case study of Manchester coachbuilder Joseph Cockshoot and Co. 1896–1939 by Joshua Butt
    • A tale of two telegraphs: Cooke and Wheatstone’s differing visions of electric telegraphy by Jean-Francois Fava-Verde
    • Prosthetic limbs on display: from maker to user by Sophie Goggins, Tacye Phillipson, Samuel J M M Alberti
    • Towards a more sonically inclusive museum practice: a new definition of the ‘sound object’ by John Kannenberg
    • ‘Great ease and simplicity of action’: Dr Nelson’s Inhaler and the origins of modern inhalation therapy by Barry Murnane, Darragh Murnane, Mark Sanders, Noel Snell
    • ‘Not one voice speaking to many’: E C Large, wireless, and science fiction fans in the mid-twentieth century by Charlotte Sleigh
    • ‘Organising Sound’: how a research network might help structure an exhibition by Tim Boon, Annie Jamieson, John Kannenberg, Aleks Kolkowski, James Mansell
    • A symposium on histories of use and tacit skills by Tim Boon, Roger Kneebone, Peter Heering, Klaus Staubermann, Yves Winkin
    • Review: what should reviews do in an online journal? Towards a New Format by Geoffrey Belknap
    • Review: More than colours (or why some Austrian school children might not want to eat red Gummy Bears anymore) by Toria Forsyth-Moser
  • 07Spring 2017Sound and Vision
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    • Editorial by Jo Quinton-Tulloch
    • Something in the Air: Dr Carter Moffat’s Ammoniaphone and the Victorian Science of Singing by Melissa Dickson
    • Rather unspectacular: design choices in National Health Service glasses by Joanne Gooding
    • ‘A Chamber of Noise Horrors’: sound, technology and the museum by James Mansell
    • The Hugh Davies Collection: live electronic music and self-built electro-acoustic musical instruments, 1967–1975 by James Mooney
    • Acoustics on display: collecting and curating sound at the Science Museum by Jennifer Rich
    • Philip Carpenter and the convergence of science and entertainment in the early-nineteenth century instrument trade by Phillip Roberts
    • Moments of danger: photography, institutions and the history of the future by Benedict Burbridge
    • Location, location: a polemic on photographs and institutional practices by Elizabeth Edwards
    • Contexts for photography collections at the National Media Museum by Michael Terwey
    • Review: The Return of Curiosity, by Nicholas Thomas by Ken Arnold
    • Review: Science and Technology galleries at National Museums Scotland by Jane Desborough
  • 06Autumn 2016Issue 06
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    • Editorial by Tilly Blyth
    • Giovanni Canestrini’s models of Leonardo da Vinci’s friction experiments by Ian Hutchings
    • Understanding storm surges in the North Sea: Ishiguro’s electronic modelling machine by Claire Kennard
    • Threading through history: the vertical transmission of Davy, Faraday and Tyndall’s lecture demonstration practices by Ceri Pitches
    • Doping at the Science Museum: the conservation challenge of doped fabric aircraft in the Flight gallery by Ben Regel, Jannicke Langfeldt, Louisa Burden, Mary Ryan
    • Pilgrimages to the museums of the new age: appropriating European industrial museums in New York City (1927–1937) by Jaume Sastre-Juan
    • Problem/science/society by Jane Gregory
    • Challenges of conservation: working objects by Elizabeth Pye
    • Review: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January–29 July 2016) by Glyn Parry
    • Obituary: Brian Bracegirdle (1933–2015) at the Science Museum by R G W Anderson, Sandra Bicknell
    • Obituary: Dr Anita McConnell FRGS FRSA FRMetS (1936–2016) by Jane Insley
  • 05Spring 2016Science Museums and Research
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    • Editorial by Tim Boon
    • The ‘co’ in co-production: Museums, community participation and Science and Technology Studies by Helen Graham
    • Private portraits or suffering on stage: curating clinical photographic collections in the museum context by Mieneke te Hennepe
    • A statistical campaign: Florence Nightingale and Harriet Martineau’s England and her Soldiers by Iris Veysey
    • Thinking things through: reviving museum research by Ken Arnold
    • Functionless: science museums and the display of ‘pure objects’ by Jean-Francois Gauvin
    • Flying Scotsman: modernity, nostalgia and Britain’s ‘cult of the past’ by Andrew McLean
    • Cosmonauts: Birth of an Exhibition by Doug Millard
    • Review: The Fate of Anatomical Collections, edited by Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg by Simon Chaplin
  • 04Autumn 2015Issue 04
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    • Editorial by Ludmilla Jordanova
    • Capturing the song of the nightingale by Iain Logie Baird
    • The Science Museum and the Leonardo da Vinci Quincentenary Exhibition of 1952 by Jim Bennett
    • The birth of a collection in Milan: from the Leonardo Exhibition of 1939 to the opening of the National Museum of Science and Technology in 1953 by Claudio Giorgione
    • A sustainable storage solution for the Science Museum Group by Marta Leskard
    • The Cosmonauts challenge by Ian Blatchford, Natalia Sidlina
    • Through the lens of a space tourist by Julia Tcharfas
    • Review: The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: the (mostly) true story of the first computer, by Sydney Padua by James Sumner
    • Review: Fairfield Govan: visiting a future heritage space by Alex Hale
  • 03Spring 2015Communications
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    • Editorial by Jean Franczyk
    • Museums as brokers of participation: how visitors view the emerging role of European science centres and museums in policy by Andrea Bandelli, Elly A. Konijn
    • Troublesome telephony: how users and non-users shaped the development of early British exchange telephony by Michael Kay
    • The Art and Science of Acoustic Recording: Re-enacting Arthur Nikisch and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s landmark 1913 recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony by Aleks Kolkowski, Duncan Miller, Amy Blier-Carruthers
    • Information age? The challenges of displaying information and communication technologies by Tilly Blyth
    • Embedding plurality: exploring participatory practice in the development of a new permanent gallery by Katy Bunning, Jen Kavanagh, Kayte McSweeney, Richard Sandell
    • Old weather: citizen scientists in the 19th and 21st centuries by Sally Shuttleworth
    • Review: Cabinet of Curiosities: How disability was kept in a box by Joanne Bartholomew
  • 02Autumn 2014Issue 02
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    • Editorial by Kate Steiner
    • James Short and John Harrison: personal genius and public knowledge by Jim Bennett
    • Oramics to electronica: investigating lay understandings of the history of technology through a participatory project by Tim Boon, Merel van der Vaart, Katy Price
    • Curating the collider: using place to engage museum visitors with particle physics by Alison Boyle, Harry Cliff
    • '½ vol. not relevant': The scrapbook of Winifred Penn-Gaskell by Caitlin Doherty
    • Made real: artifice and accuracy in nineteenth-century scientific illustration by Boris Jardine
    • Science communication in Latin America: what is going on? by Luisa Massarani
    • Chronometers, charts, charisma: on histories of longitude by Simon Schaffer
    • Review: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude by Seb Falk
    • Review: Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century, by Omar W Nasim by David Hughes
  • 01Spring 2014Issue 01
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    • Editorial by Ian Blatchford
    • Coming home - Bally’s miniature phrenological specimens by Alice Cliff
    • Reading, writing, drawing and making in the 18th-century instrument trade by Florence Grant
    • Responding to stories: The 1876 Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus and the Science Museum by Robert Bud
    • ‘Something simple and striking, if not amusing’ – the Freedom 7 special exhibition at the Science Museum, 1965 by Jean-Baptiste Gouyon
    • Watt’s workshop: craft and philosophy in the Science Museum by Ben Russell
    • On heroism by Ludmilla Jordanova
    • Sputnik and the 'scientific revolution' - what happened to social justice? by Justin Dillon
    • Review: Perfect Mechanics: Instrument Makers at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century, by Richard Sorrenson by Jim Bennett
    • Review: Seven Ages of Science, BBC Radio 4 by Rebekah Higgitt
    • Obituary: Frank Greenaway by Peter Morris, Robert Bud
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