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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Charles Singer and the early years of the British Society for the History of Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

GEOFFREY CANTOR
GEOFFREY CANTOR
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
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Abstract

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Presidential addresses offer an opportunity to reflect on the history of our subject and where the history of science stands in our own day. Such reflections are particularly appropriate with the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) which is marked in 1997. Some may consider that looking back over our past is either an unacceptable luxury or an occasion for the kind of celebration that can all too easily degenerate into hagiography and an excuse to rake over the past in a thoroughly uncritical manner. This address – and I trust the events of 1997 – will try to avoid such excesses and instead contribute to the historiography of our subject.

Type
Editorial
Information
The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 5 - 23
Copyright
© 1997 British Society for the History of Science

Footnotes

Editor's note. The address was delivered on 14 July 1995 and publication has been delayed, with the author's permission, in order to appear in this special number.