In 2026, a group of Hertha (Marks) Ayrton enthusiasts are shining a light on her achievements and the ripple effect she had on the twentieth century and beyond.
Why now? This year marks the 120th anniversary of the Royal Society awarding Hertha Ayrton its Hughes Medal for outstanding research.
For International Women’s Day - great to collaborate with the International Network of Women Engineers & Scientists on this project! www.inwes.org/herstories/
Yes wrote a whole book about this in 2008!
It's our regular Monday announcement... New podcast episode!
Graeme Gooday explores the history of the physical sciences 150 years ago, and why they were core subjects first taught at the Yorkshire College of Science #histsci #skystorians #chemistry #physics
open.spotify.com/episode/5Dln...
Booked online! Thanks Nina.
Yes I’ve been using this particular advert in teaching the gendered history of electrical safety for several decades now! 😊
Collaborative PhD history of science/technology studentship now available at University of Leeds on the marvellous Caroline Haslett and her international networks wrocah.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
An inspirational talk from Dame Julia King for our difficult times.
@wes1919.bsky.social @graemegooday.bsky.social
youtu.be/C2n8hLKDNkE?...
I fear there is deep truth here.
History of science PhD students! Come to Leeds for the BSHS Postgraduate conference in April 2025. Details in the link above.
pg-conference.bshs.org.uk
And here’s the whole open-access volume of articles produced by Dr Jo Ashbourn at the Oxford Centre for History & Philosophy of Physics: iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6...
Dr Katie Carpenter and Professor Graeme Gooday from the University of Leeds in front of a group of engineering students in an engineering lab
Fantastic afternoon and a huge thank you to Dr Katie Carpenter & Professor Graeme Gooday from @universityofleeds.bsky.social @hpsleeds.bsky.social who came to speak to Selby College Engineering & Electrical Installation Students about the history of women in engineering.
Actually wrote this over a year ago - IOP takes a little longer to publish than does Nature Review Physics!
PDF should be downloadable here until Monday 18th November.
Meditations on perpetual motion machines and sustainable energy (& inescapable thermodynamics…) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
extract from a cartoon on a teatowel, showing lots of ladies in hats and some men without much hair in a drawing room, deep in disucssion
#OTD 12 November 1924 a meeting in a drawing room attended by leading figures in the UK's electrical world was inspired by Mrs Mabel Matthews' idea to form the Electrical Association for Women. The event was commemorated on EAW's 40th anniversary #teatowels in 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electri...
Great to work on this with you Nina.
Published today to mark centenary of the Electrical Association for Women’s foundation, 12 November 1924! Commissioned by Nature Physics Reviews editor, Ankita Anirban, who was wonderfully enthusiastic about EAW history at this year’s BSHS annual conference in Aberystwyth rdcu.be/dZTVy
Tomorrow, 12 Nov, @graemegooday.bsky.social is leading the centenary celebrations of the Electrical Association for Women and @kingtekkers.bsky.social is speaking at the @museumsassociation.bsky.social conference. It’s all happening! #histsci
Indeed I do !
Square saucepans with diagonal handles at Bristol’s Stradling Collection (borrowed from the local Electricity Museum). Why? Apparently developed in 1930s by the Electrical Association for Women for efficient use of square electric hot plates!
The first president of the EAW in 1924, Nancy Astor, was apparently amused that its members expected
to be ‘emancipated’ by electricity: ‘the most difficult thing in a house was a man, and electrical equipment would not get rid of that’… even if electricity did make life ‘easier in other respects!’
Great to see this in Bristol: one of many markers for centenary of UK’s Electrical Association for Women. stradlingcollection.org/all-electric...
Another great centenary for women in technology arriving right on time!
