Season’s greetings

21 December 2012 by Rupert Baker

A very Merry Christmas to all our readers! We hope you’ll be warmer and better-provisioned than the travellers in the…

Up the Coppermine without a paddle

11 April 2012 by Rupert Baker

At the risk of becoming typecast as ‘that Royal Society librarian who always blogs about expeditions going horribly wrong’, here’s…

The observers observed: Walter White and the Royal Society

4 April 2012 by Katherine Ford

Science daring matchless deeds put on a fairer guise : The steamship and the railway-train, the swift electric wire, To…

A novel approach to our Fellows

20 September 2010 by Rupert Baker

Looking for a good story to read, now the evenings are drawing in and you’ve returned from your summer holidays…