Other publications

Since 1997 the Historical Group has published ‘Occasional Papers’, which are edited texts of lectures on the history of chemistry.  The first six papers were only produced in hard copy and can be found in the Royal Society of Chemistry Library and the British Library.  More recent Occasional Papers are downloadable below.

Jeffrey Seeman – Woodward’s Unpublished Letters: Revealing, Commanding and Elegant, Part 2 RSCHG Occasional Paper No.10 published May 2018

Peter Morris - Robert Burns Woodward in this Own Words  RSCHG Occasional Paper No.9 published April 2017

Frank James – ‘the first example … of an extensive scheme of pure scientific medical investigation’: Thomas Beddoes and the Medical Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, 1794 to 1799   RSCHG Occasional Paper No.8 published November 2016

Anthony Travis – Nitrogen, Novel High-Pressure Chemistry, and the German War Effort (1900 -1918)  RSCHG Occasional Paper No.7 published April 2015

You can also download the List of Published Histories of British and Irish Chemistry Departments compiled by Bill Griffith (revised version March 2018)