{"id":1301,"date":"2020-06-26T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2020-06-30T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T09:03:24","slug":"free-online-history-festival-with-bshs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/06\/26\/free-online-history-festival-with-bshs\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE Online History Festival with BSHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of current and former School of History staff and students have been working with the British Society for the History of Science, to stage a FREE online History Festival this July. The <a href=\"https:\/\/bshsfestival.org.uk\">BSHS Global Digital History of Science Festival<\/a>,\u00a0a five-day celebration, will run from 6-10 July, featuring a wide range of talks, discussions, workshops and performances &#8211; and is completely free to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sam Robinson, Professor Charlotte Sleigh, PhD students Katie Heffner and Emma Hill, and alumnus Dr Daniel Belteki are on the Organising Committee. Dr Rebekah Higgitt has organised a session to share research from her Metropolitan Science project and\u00a0Dr Julie Anderson will be chairing one of the Keynote speeches on disability.<\/p>\n<p>A full programme and further details <a href=\"https:\/\/bshsfestival.org.uk\">can be found here<\/a>, however look out for School of History staff, students and alumni in the following events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bshsfestival.org.uk\/index.php\/programme\/roundtables\/earth-day-the-oceans-and-ocean-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Earth Day, the Oceans and Ocean History<\/a>, Tuesday 7 July \u2013 organised by Dr Sam Robinson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bshsfestival.org.uk\/index.php\/programme\/virtual-tours-and-digital-explorations\/george-airy-and-nineteenth-century-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">George Airy and Nineteenth-Century Science<\/a>\u00a0(session and exhibition), Thursday 9 July \u2013 organised by Dr Daniel Belteki<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bshsfestival.org.uk\/index.php\/programme\/virtual-tours-and-digital-explorations\/virtual-walking-tour-of-early-modern-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">A virtual walk through sites of knowledge and practice in early modern London<\/a>, Thursday 9 July \u2013 organised by Dr Rebekah Higgit and Noah Moxham (Post-doc)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bshsfestival.org.uk\/index.php\/programme\/keynotes\/keynote-pratik-chakrabarti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Keynote: Pratik Chakrabarti, Do We Need a Global History of Science?<\/a>, Monday 6 July \u2013 Former staff member Professor Chakrabarti gives one of the Keynotes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of current and former School of History staff and students have been working with the British Society for the History of Science, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/06\/26\/free-online-history-festival-with-bshs\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39518,"featured_media":1308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[98206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}