Just in time for Valentine's Day - @AlbertGiubilini on covid measures and human relationships: 'COVID policies often presupposed impossibly accurate definitions of intimate details of people’s lives. Our vocabulary is not fit for that purpose.' blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2022/02/what-i…

🤗 Another year, another amazing Sir Michael Howard annual lecture!

Huge thanks to Erica Charters for such a fascinating talk on the Metrics of War.

If you missed the live event you can catch the recording on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=kapbYO…

Mark Condos Jonathan Fennell

I will be involved as faculty in next summer's NEH Institute, Mapping the Early Modern World, at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Please share with students and colleagues, and urge them to apply! …ppingearlymodernworld22.wordpress.com

Tonight's view.

A brilliant evening launching our MPLSOxford Diversifying STEM Curriculum project at History of Science Museum. Beyond inspiring 🙌 Huge thanks to all involved, particularly @msdaisyjhung and Erica Charters

How do epidemics end? Good question. epidemics.web.ox.ac.uk/home This multidisciplinary project combines #histmed #COVID19 and more to provide some answers, with a fantastic range of scholars. Oxford Global History Oxford History of Science, Medicine and Technology

Another new Oxford global history publication, 'A Global History of Early Modern Violence' edited by Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare, Peter Wilson, featuring papers presented at the 'A Violent World' conference. See more globalhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/new-pu…

Amazing Oxford History of Science, Medicine and Technology seminar today on early modern music, alchemy, and so much more. And what a digital beauty: furnaceandfugue.org

On ne boude pas son plaisir... Double merci 😊😊

Varlık, 'The plague that never left: restoring the Second Pandemic to Ottoman and Turkish history in the time of COVID-19,' cambridge.org/core/journals/…. This is important not simply for Ottoman history, but for all #PandemicThinking . #OpenAccess

Oh! I've just realised that my 2019 article in the Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française is open access! It's on how even the most 'national' history, like the history of the #RoyalNavy , is actually profitably studied from a #transnational angle. cairn-int.info/journal-annale…

In the British Indian Army, soldiers of different faiths, races, and nationalities fought alongside one another during the WW1.

Learn about Dr Priya Atwal's Knowledge Exchange project, 'The Indian Army in the First World War: An Oxfordshire Perspective'

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Check out this interesting piece by Dr Stephen Tuffnell via the Oxford and Empire Network:
oxfordandempire.web.ox.ac.uk/article/united…

#Renaissance #mathematicians from #Galileo & #Newton to humble compilers of tables proved their value by studying #gunnery : the fleeting path of shot through the air.

Explore the Geometry of War:
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#militaryhistory #artillery #histsci #maths #16 #17C

We're turning 50!🎉

And looking fabulous.

To celebrate, we've put together a short commemorative film, interviewing Society members from across all 5 decades of our history. Thanks so much to @brooksish13 for putting this together. #histSTM #histmed
youtube.com/watch?v=YyooT9…

Although few records remain of their work, we know women, as well as men, have become skilled makers of scientific instruments.

Al-`Ijliya bint al-`Ijlī al-Asṭurlabi, famously known as Mariam al-Asṭurlabi, was an astrolabe-maker living in Aleppo between 900 and 975 CE. 1/4

We have a #funded #scholarship in #Arts for a #graduate (DPhil/PhD) at University of Oxford in the #Humanities - Please share widely!