The special issue on Chemical Knowledge in Transit (Ambix 62: 4) can now be accessed online. Members wishing to benefit from free access should log in first and access this issue through our member area.

Application deadline: 14 February 2016

The Center of Historical Studies, Faculty of Arts, welcomes applications for an 18 month postdoc position (0.7 fte) to conduct research in the history of Boerhaavian medicine in the eighteenth century. The postdoc project is embedded in the NWO Vidi project “Vital Matters. Boerhaave’s Chemico-Medical Legacy and Dutch Enlightenment Culture”, supervised by Dr Rina Knoeff.

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A new issue of Chemical Intelligence, the first to be edited by Judith Mawer, is now available. You can download it here or access it alongside all the former issues.

At the recent Annual General Meeting (8 December), the SHAC membership approved the revised constitution. It can be found online here.

Welcome to the Website of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC), publisher of the scholarly journal Ambix.

Founded in 1935, SHAC has consistently maintained the highest standards of scholarship in all aspects of the history of alchemy and chemistry from early times to the present. The Society has a wide international membership from over thirty countries.

We hold meetings and webinars, offer scholarly prizes and grants, and publish the journal Ambix. The Society’s newsletter, Chemical Intelligence, is published twice a year. We have also established the Graduate Network to bring together postgraduate students in the field.

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You can watch our SHAC Online Seminars on YouTube here.

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• Reports on several summer and autumn meetings, including the SHAC-sponsored ICHSTM Symposium, the Sites of Chemistry in the Twentieth Century conference, the James Crawford Tercentenary Conference at the University of Edinburgh, the 4th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop ‘Alchemy and Chemistry in Context’ and the ‘Chemists and Their Books’ SHAC-Bolton Autumn Meeting and others
• Information on the new Ambix Special Issue on ‘Alchemy and Religion in Christian Europe’, edited by Dr Tara Nummedal
• The new Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry series details
• Presentations of the new Officers of SHAC

Call for Registration:
4th Postgraduate Workshop on the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
‘Alchemy and Chemistry in Context’
Keynes Library, Birkbeck College
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX
Saturday 26 October 2013

Every year the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) runs an international workshop for graduate students and early career scholars working on the history and philosophy of alchemy and chemistry. The theme for the 2013 Workshop is ‘Alchemy and Chemistry in Context’. This interdisciplinary event will explore the interaction between chemical knowledge and the wider social, economic, religious and cultural context, across a range of historical periods – from medieval alchemy to the chemical industry.

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