Birds, bones and stones

27 March 2013 by Katherine Ford

The Archaeopteryx is possibly the most famous fossilised bird in scientific history.

The pre-Raphaelites and science

10 November 2011 by Guest bloggers

This is part of a series of posts inspired by the Royal Society’s One Culture festival of literature and the…

No Gods or Goblins: censorship in the early Philosophical Transactions

5 July 2011 by Felicity Henderson

Recently I came across two seventeenth-century papers in the Society’s archives. The first was an account of a parhelion (mock…

Gentlemen, wild boys, and a baboon on guitar

28 March 2011 by Rupert Baker

I recently, and coincidentally, had two run-ins with Peter the Wild Boy on the same day.

Hidden treasures

24 January 2011 by Rupert Baker

Regular readers in the Centre for History of Science will be accustomed to the sight of members of staff collecting…