Christmas Meeting & Annual General Meeting 2026

Our annual Christmas Meeting again showcases the excellent current research being done in history of mathematics across a variety of themes and time periods. This year our speakers include two authors who were shortlisted for the 2025 Neumann Prize and our outgoing President. Registration is free and open to all.

To receive the zoom link please register via this form before December 3rd: Christmas Meeting & AGM 2026 Registration – BSHM.

The book of abstracts can be found here, and the AGM materials will be added once available.

Programme

1.30 – 2.30: AGM

2.30 – 2.40: Break & Christmas Meeting welcome

2.40 – 3.20: Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford, Neumann Prize Shortlisted Author), Counting from Blombos to cyberspace

3.20 – 4.00: Sarah Hart (Birkbeck, University of London, Neumann Prize Shortlisted Author), The Granddaddy of Algorithms

4.00 – 4.20: Break

4.20 – 5.00: Ellen Abrams (University of Toronto), Rugged Abstractions: Toward a Cultural History of Modern Mathematics

5:00 – 5.20: Tom Briggs (Museum Educator and Maths Communicator, Member Talk), From Research in Progress to Network in Practice: Integrating History into Lower Secondary Mathematics Lessons

5.20 – 5.30: Break

5.30 – 5.50: Clare Moriarty (University College Dublin and National Library of Ireland, Member Talk), Infinitesimal Horrors – The Surprising Ultrafinitism of Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman

5.50-6.30 : Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford, Outgoing BSHM President), Incompetence in the History of Mathematics

6.30-6.40 : Close of Meeting

If you have any queries please contact the Meetings Co-ordinator at brigitte.stenhouse@bshm.ac.uk.