By Tim Boon A history of ourselves? By Max Long Tinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944) By Frances Morgan From obsolete technology to performance instrument: new live presentations of the EMS Synthi 100 By Emmeline Ledgerwood ‘We lost a type of job for a type of person in this country’: changing expectations of working in the UK scientific civil service By Doug Millard Black Arrow R4: the object behind the screen By Farrah Lawrence-Mackey ‘Iron lung’ as metaphor By Colin Ford Obituary: Dame Margaret Weston, DBE, FMA (7 March 1926–12 January 2021) By Stewart Emmens Wounded – an exhibition out of time By Efram Sera-Shriar Book review: Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain, by Richard Noakes By Helen Langwick Review: Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at the World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century