Linus Pauling – a journey from wartime research to pacifism

29 September 2017 by Elena Falco

Next week sees the announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize winners. Many of the Royal Society’s Fellows and Foreign Members…

Transparency in peer review

8 September 2017 by Phil Hurst

In 1832, the Royal Society moved from using committee minutes to written peer review reports for determining what was published…

It is happening on a large scale in many libraries, collections and archives. It is developing fast and it devours…

27 February 2017 by Helen Duriez

In this post, Louisiane Ferlier considers what one picture can tell us about the historical and cultural context of scientific…

30 January 2017 by Helen Eaton

We are delighted to announce that the archive of Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is now…