This just in from Maney Publishing!

The Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy & Chemistry has been named their Journal of the Month for March. To celebrate, they are offering free online access to three years’ worth of Ambix content, along with a newly designed website featuring articles written by experts in the field and other pieces such as:

VIDEO: the editor discusses new developments for the journal in 2013.

Best of the archive: 20 high-quality articles freely available to download.

Voluntary Action and the History of Leisure: An Emerging Field?

A one-day seminar to be held at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU,
Saturday 4 May 2013
10.00am - 4.00pm

The role of voluntary action in the development of leisure activities is a neglected area of study: historians of leisure pay little attention to the voluntary organisations that played such an important role in the provision of recreation while historians of voluntary action tend to focus on the relief of poverty, health and social welfare.

Naval Expertise and the Making of the Modern World
Wolfson College, University of Oxford
10-11 May 2013

This conference examines the generation of expertise in naval contexts and traces how such developments helped shape the modern world. Expertise will be considered not only as knowledge but also as methods and practices central to the evolution of modern nation states and empires.

Healthy Living in Pre-Modern Europe: The Theory and Practice of the Six Non-Naturals (c.1400-1700)
Institute of Historical Research, Bloomsbury, London.
13-14 September 2013

CFP: Chemistry and Global History (Philadelphia, April 2014)

"CHEMICAL REACTIONS: Chemistry and Global History"

International Conference April 10-12, 2014 Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia