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Keith Moore discovers examples of the overlooked, the ephemeral and the downright weird in the files of the Royal Society.

Daniel Belteki reports on a decorative, but otherwise unsuccessful, interlude in the printing of a Royal Society journal.

The craze for ballooning took off in 1783, but some Fellows of the Royal Society kept their distance, as Vannis Jones Rahi discovers.

Following in the footsteps of traveller and antiquarian Thomas Pennant FRS, Rupert Baker reports back from Snowdonia and the 'damned water' of Llyn Idwal.

The records of the Royal Society throw up surprisingly frequent instances of scientists subjecting themselves to the tortures of the damned in pursuit of new knowledge, as well as the occasional laboratory accident.