Making the first scientific journal

2 December 2014 by Julie McDougall-Waters

Today the Royal Society opens an exhibition to celebrate the earliest and longest-running scientific journal in the world. Entitled ‘The…

Angela Burdett-Coutts: celebrating a patron of science

10 April 2014 by Julie McDougall-Waters

Science has always benefitted from the generosity of wealthy individuals; we can see evidence of this today in the prestigious…

Tracing authors’ copies of the Philosophical Transactions

14 November 2013 by Julie McDougall-Waters

The ‘Publishing the Philosophical Transactions Project’ is in its seventh month at the Royal Society. To date, one aspect of…

“Permit me to lay before you the bladder of Mr Gardiner”

21 August 2013 by Noah Moxham

Medicine in public in eighteenth-century London Poor Mr Gardiner’s bladder was to be the subject of a great deal of…

From manuscript to Microsoft

1 August 2013 by Julie McDougall

The more recent history of the Royal Society and the Philosophical Transactions. The history of the Royal Society has received…