It gives me very great pleasure to write this preface to the HAPP 10th Anniversary Commemorative Volume, which celebrates a decade of the St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics (HAPP)’s activities since its foundation in 2014. The HAPP Centre was established by me and James Dodd, whose vision and generosity over the past ten years have enabled HAPP to develop and flourish. Our aim in its foundation was to provide a forum in which the philosophy and methodologies that inform how current research in physics is undertaken would be included alongside the history of the discipline in an accessible way that could engage the general public as well as scientists, historians and philosophers. Grateful thanks are due to the many individuals and organisations who have supported HAPP’s progress and evolution over the past decade. I start by thanking the HAPP Advisory Board for their greatly appreciated insightful advice over the years, all the speakers and participants at HAPP’s events, and the following for their sponsorship generously provided for HAPP events: British Society for the History of Science British Society for the Philosophy of Science Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics Department of Physics, University of Oxford Faculty of History, University of Oxford Gateways Centre, University of Kent History of Physics Group, Institute of Physics Royal Astronomical Society The Ogden Trust Many thanks also go to the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) for suggesting the publication of this Commemorative Volume as well as to all the contributors whose outputs make up its fascinating pages and to the two HAPP research assistants, Charles Godfrey and Ford Wagner who provided excellent transcripts from talk recordings where needed. Additional thanks are also due to Ford for sterling and dedicated assistance with the formatting of the Volume. The Volume is structured around four key overarching themes which encompass the HAPP papers in it: Physicists across History, Space and Astronomy, Philosophical Perspectives and Concepts in Physics. The thematic papers derive from talks given at the HAPP termly one-day conferences and from standalone lectures and seminars as well as from the discussion panels which took place online during the pandemic period – one paper in particular in The Nature of Quantum Reality section recounts how a very special book collaboration arose from that HAPP conference. I very much hope that under IOPP’s Open Access online readers across the globe will enjoy this Anniversary Volume from HAPP’s first decade and here’s looking forward to its second! Jo Ashbourn Director, HAPP Centre, St Cross College, University of Oxford
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