New BJHS Themes issue, co-edited by Isabel Zilhão

BJHS Themes is a sister publication to the British Journal for the History of Science, available in open access. Its third volume, out in 2018, is co-edited by post-doctoral researcher Isabel Zilhão and Kristian H. Nielsen, and focuses on science for children and young people, between the 19th and 20th centuries.

This special issue includes two papers framing the subject through the portuguese case. Isabel Zilhão analyses books on agriculture written for young people by agricultural engineer João Coelho da Motta Prego, in the early 20th Century. Inês Gomes discusses the relative value that was attributed to observation and experimentation in the laws on secondary education in Portugal, from 1836 to the beginning of the Estado Novo regime.