Tim Boon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4212759 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tim Boon |
| PRENOMES | Tim |
| SOBRENOME | Boon |
| ASSINATURA | BOON T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Science Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9016-2147 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The public culture of science through an intermedial lens
This introduction to a special issue of BJHS concerned with intermedial approaches to the history of the public culture of science (those that pay attention to the forms of different science media and how they relate to each other) also stands as an argument for such approaches. It amplifies a trend within humanities and social-science approaches to its subject of studying the interactions between science, media and publics as complex historical …
Presidential Address ‘Some years of cudgelling my brains about the nature and function of science museums’
Frank Sherwood Taylor was director of the Science Museum London for just over five years from October 1950. He was the only historian of science ever to have been director of this institution, which has always ridden a tightrope between advocacy of science and advocacy of its history, balancing differently at different points in its history. He was also president of the BSHS from 1951 to 1953. So what happened when a historian got his hands on th…
Music 625
Two BSHS online alternatives to conventional conferences
In 2020, the BSHS hosted two major online events, the first of their kind in our collective experience. The first, a Twitter conference, was planned and accomplished before COVID-19 had quite been established as a serious global issue. The conference was planned, rather, as an innovation in travel-free conferencing, something that has been on the BSHS agenda since the IPCC report of 2018, calling for net-zero-carbon activity in all areas by 2050.…
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Sarah Anne Carter, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, and Samantha van Gerbig, Tangible Things
Museum collections across the globe hold billions of objects deliberately collected, usually listed, sometimes catalogued, a proportion visible online. Despite the fact that research is a routinely listed function of these collections, most of their objects are not available to immediate inspection by the curious, even if the majority of them are at least retained in relatively stable environments and subject to systematic monitoring. Collecting …
‘What manner of men?’
Science Museums in Transition. Cultures of display in nineteenth-century Britain and America
The art of producing an effective collective volume of essays involves playing to what a cohort of authors can achieve that a single author can’t, whilst retaining a unity of focus. Multiple authors bring a diversity of concerns, research and reading, which – at the same time as it can provide a range of angles on a volume’s subject matter – can create a centrifugal tendency to leave the common ground behind. In Science Museums in Transition, edi…
The televising of science is a process of television’
BBC Television's Horizon series, fifty years old on 2 May 2014, despite its significance to the history of the public culture of science, has been little studied. This microhistorical account follows the gestation and early years of the programme, demonstrating how it established a social and cultural account of science. This was a result of televisual factors, notably the determination to follow the format of the successful arts television progr…
Sounding the field
For sound studies, the publication of a 593-page handbook, not to mention the establishment of at least one society – the European Sound Studies Association – might seem to signify the emergence of a new academic discipline. Certainly, the books under consideration here, alongside many others, testify to an intensification of concern with the aural dimensions of culture. Some of this work comes from HPS and STS, some from musicology and cultural …
Amateur Film
Folk Work
This essay playfully takes Patrick Geddes's categories of work, place and folk to frame an autobiographical account in which I describe my origins and development as a historian and museum curator at the Science Museum, London. My parents George and Diana Boon, both classicists by education, created a home imbued with a deep respect for the past, history and archaeology. This created the thesis for a dialectic whose antithesis was my fascination …
British Society for the History of Science Report of Council for the year 1998
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British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
Scientific advice in the film industry
The televising of science is a process of television’
BBC Television's Horizon series, fifty years old on 2 May 2014, despite its significance to the history of the public culture of science, has been little studied. This microhistorical account follows the gestation and early years of the programme, demonstrating how it established a social and cultural account of science. This was a result of televisual factors, notably the determination to follow the format of the successful arts television progr…
Two BSHS online alternatives to conventional conferences
In 2020, the BSHS hosted two major online events, the first of their kind in our collective experience. The first, a Twitter conference, was planned and accomplished before COVID-19 had quite been established as a serious global issue. The conference was planned, rather, as an innovation in travel-free conferencing, something that has been on the BSHS agenda since the IPCC report of 2018, calling for net-zero-carbon activity in all areas by 2050.…
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
British Society for the History of Science Report of Council for the year 1998
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Folk Work
This essay playfully takes Patrick Geddes's categories of work, place and folk to frame an autobiographical account in which I describe my origins and development as a historian and museum curator at the Science Museum, London. My parents George and Diana Boon, both classicists by education, created a home imbued with a deep respect for the past, history and archaeology. This created the thesis for a dialectic whose antithesis was my fascination …
Amateur Film
The televising of science is a process of television’
BBC Television's Horizon series, fifty years old on 2 May 2014, despite its significance to the history of the public culture of science, has been little studied. This microhistorical account follows the gestation and early years of the programme, demonstrating how it established a social and cultural account of science. This was a result of televisual factors, notably the determination to follow the format of the successful arts television progr…
Sounding the field
For sound studies, the publication of a 593-page handbook, not to mention the establishment of at least one society – the European Sound Studies Association – might seem to signify the emergence of a new academic discipline. Certainly, the books under consideration here, alongside many others, testify to an intensification of concern with the aural dimensions of culture. Some of this work comes from HPS and STS, some from musicology and cultural …
‘What manner of men?’
Science Museums in Transition. Cultures of display in nineteenth-century Britain and America
The art of producing an effective collective volume of essays involves playing to what a cohort of authors can achieve that a single author can’t, whilst retaining a unity of focus. Multiple authors bring a diversity of concerns, research and reading, which – at the same time as it can provide a range of angles on a volume’s subject matter – can create a centrifugal tendency to leave the common ground behind. In Science Museums in Transition, edi…
Two BSHS online alternatives to conventional conferences
In 2020, the BSHS hosted two major online events, the first of their kind in our collective experience. The first, a Twitter conference, was planned and accomplished before COVID-19 had quite been established as a serious global issue. The conference was planned, rather, as an innovation in travel-free conferencing, something that has been on the BSHS agenda since the IPCC report of 2018, calling for net-zero-carbon activity in all areas by 2050.…
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Sarah Anne Carter, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, and Samantha van Gerbig, Tangible Things
Museum collections across the globe hold billions of objects deliberately collected, usually listed, sometimes catalogued, a proportion visible online. Despite the fact that research is a routinely listed function of these collections, most of their objects are not available to immediate inspection by the curious, even if the majority of them are at least retained in relatively stable environments and subject to systematic monitoring. Collecting …
Music 625
Presidential Address ‘Some years of cudgelling my brains about the nature and function of science museums’
Frank Sherwood Taylor was director of the Science Museum London for just over five years from October 1950. He was the only historian of science ever to have been director of this institution, which has always ridden a tightrope between advocacy of science and advocacy of its history, balancing differently at different points in its history. He was also president of the BSHS from 1951 to 1953. So what happened when a historian got his hands on th…
Scientific advice in the film industry
The public culture of science through an intermedial lens
This introduction to a special issue of BJHS concerned with intermedial approaches to the history of the public culture of science (those that pay attention to the forms of different science media and how they relate to each other) also stands as an argument for such approaches. It amplifies a trend within humanities and social-science approaches to its subject of studying the interactions between science, media and publics as complex historical …
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