Automata to AI

11 December 2018 by Jessica Montgomery

One of the more unusual images in the Royal Society’s archives depicts two human musicians and a gold duck. This…

Collections by Candlelight

20 November 2018 by Jon Bushell

Autumn is drawing to a close, and winter is on the way; the days are getting colder and the nights…

13 November 2018 by Virginia Mills

Earlier this year the Royal Society opened a brand new grant scheme designed to facilitate archival research and network building…

30 October 2018 by Rupert Baker

It’s nearly Halloween, so here’s a tale of an occurrence in a disused cemetery… I’ll pull the rug from under…

9 October 2018 by Rupert Baker

I’ve just added a set of six books to our ‘new items’ shelf in the Library: the winner and shortlisted…