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Tim Boon

Head of Research and Public History

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Dr Tim Boon is Head of Research and Public History for the Science Museum Group and Principal Investigator of the Congruence Engine project. He has published three books (two co-edited) and more than fifty academic papers concerned with the public and material cultures of science. He is an Honorary Professor in the Science and Technology Studies Department at UCL and a past President of the British Society for the History of Science

Article Contributions

  • Provocation: Journal experiments in overlay, data and provisionality 17 December 2024
  • A history of ourselves? 18 October 2023
  • Trevor Pinch: a personal and institutional appreciation 18 October 2023
  • Obituary: Cameron James Tailford, 10 October 1991 – 3 August 2022 31 January 2023
  • Origins and ambitions of the Congruence Engine project 1 December 2022
  • Editorial 26 October 2022
  • Festschrift: Ways of curating: introduction to a mini-festschrift in honour of Robert Bud 8 April 2020
  • ‘Organising Sound’: how a research network might help structure an exhibition 15 November 2018
  • A symposium on histories of use and tacit skills 15 November 2018
  • Editorial 16 March 2016
  • Oramics to electronica: investigating lay understandings of the history of technology through a participatory project 8 October 2014