A star-crossed astronomer

12 December 2012 by Rupert Baker

You may be familiar with our ‘Fellows in Fiction‘ loan collection in the Library, which focuses on books showing real…

Doggerel for the Duke

2 September 2011 by Guest bloggers

Guest post by Gabriel Moshenska In 1830 the Duke of Sussex became president of the Royal Society after a controversial…

Photography and a wet weekend in Wales

2 June 2011 by Joanna Corden

Attending a wedding festival of a very good friend in the Senni valley in a very wet Wales, I was…

Who’s Herschel?

7 March 2011 by Guest bloggers

Guest post by James Poskett It’s March 7th. Forgetting anything? A birthday perhaps? Charles Darwin’s has been and gone, 12th…

Total Recall

20 December 2010 by Keith Moore

Picture a group of scientists at dinner in the new age of Queen Victoria, just crowned at Westminster Abbey in…