Diving deeper into the history of science!

Your haunted witching blogger is getting a lot closer to becoming a science historian!

Recently, my proposal for my master thesis has been accepted. I was so very nervous when handing it in. It was something my witch could not help me with, since I had decided not to write in the 17th century but the 20th. I was on my own, and apparently I did well. I am going to write about a part of the Eugenic movement, which is terrifying but so important in times such as these, but also fits for me. My day job as a science communicator takes place in natural history museums and is mostly evolutionary biology related. Let’s explore the darkness of its history!

Why I chose to write a master thesis outside of my beloved, feared, and haunted 17th century has to do with something I already wrote about here. I had some very personal issues with a historian of that period, and that badly affected my blogging! I did not ever want to have that kind of interference, so I had to separate these two projects of mine. I still studied the 17th century a lot during my degree, and feel competent blogging and writing about it! Not making it the focus of my academic experience will make it easier to also keep my tone in writing alive!

So, here we go. Into the terrifying chaos of the first half of the 20th century. I am thrilled about this task. And I am learning to do real archival work. Did you know that archives name the extend of a file by the thickness it has when put in a shelf? I’m not sure if it’s the most efficient way, but then again, historical sources differ so much in type, it actually might be?! 3 centimeters are about 150 pages, while 91 inches are about 12 000. If I calculated correctly. I will soon decide which I will work myself through!

And once I accomplished this, I might even dive deeper into archives for the blog. There is so much historical horror to uncover!