2019 May – A Centenary Celebration of the First Female Fellows of the Geological Society of London

21st May 2019 A Centenary Celebration of the First Female Fellows of the Geological Society of London Convenors: Prof. Cynthia Burek, Dr Bettie Higgs and Dr John Cubitt Abstracts from the Meeting Booklet

2018 Sept – Collectors, Collections and the geology of southwest Britain

18th September 2018 Collectors, Collections and the geology of southwest Britain Abstracts from the Meeting Booklet

2013 July – INHIGEO conference: abstracts

24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine Manchester, England Monday 22 – Sunday 28 July, 2013 The UK’s History of Geology committee (Hogg), working with UK INHIGEO members, organised the 2013 INHIGEO conference, during the...

2012 December – Piltdown: 100 years on

One hundred years ago, Piltdown man was revealed to the world at a packed and excited meeting at the Geological Society of London on 18 December 1912. It was hailed as a very early species of human – possibly even a missing link between man and ape that Charles Darwin...

2011 April – Geological collectors and collecting

HoGG conference on Geological Collectors and Collecting, held at the Natural History Museum London in April 2011. For abstracts and programme click here.

2010 April – Geology in the history of provincial scientific societies

April 2010 Provincial Societies meeting in Manchester Download the abstracts here.