Guest Blog from Dr Sam Illingworth, Science Communications Lecturer, MMU. This blog was originally written for The Brain Bank Manc and it can be read in its original form here 

The British Science Association (BSA) 2015 Science Communication Conference will be held on the 18^th and 19^th June at Manchester Metropolitan University, the first such time that the conference will have been held up t’North.

The British Association for the Advancement of Science, as it was then known, was founded in York on 27 September 1831, following a suggestion by the great Scottish polymath Sir David Brewster, who chose York for the first meeting of the British Association “as the most central city in the three kingdoms”. This was the first of a series of annual meetings that has continued for over 150 years. The first meeting to take place in Manchester was in 1842, since…