In the margins

13 August 2019 by Louisiane Ferlier

In a previous blogpost, I described my semi-successful hunt through the records of the Royal Society for a chameleon owned…

Capital climate

6 August 2019 by Jon Bushell

Complaining about the weather sometimes feels like a quintessential British pastime, and the recent heatwave certainly qualifies as something to…

30 July 2019 by Virginia Mills

Royal Society archivists continue to collect the records of past and present Fellows, documenting scientific progress and the work of…

23 July 2019 by Keith Moore

My summer reading has included Charles Sprawson’s wonderfully engaging book on immersive history Haunts of the black masseur. Now what…

16 July 2019 by Rose Teanby

Fifty years ago, people of the world held their collective breath as Apollo 11 landed humans on the Moon for the…