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What do you show to a Library tour group interested in seabed mapping? Rupert Baker dives down to the vaults on a treasure hunt.

On the day of a total solar eclipse visible across North America, Jon Bushell looks at accounts of eclipses in the collections of the Royal Society.

Jon Bushell looks at the Royal Society's portraits of Edmond Halley, and a diagram of Halley's curious model for the internal structure of the Earth.

The appointment of Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley to senior posts at the Royal Mint didn't mean that business always ran smoothly, as Virginia Mills discovers via letters in the archives of the Royal Society.

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

Keith Moore tells the story of Sir Isaac Newton's magnum opus, and its connection to a new space mission involving British astronaut Tim Peake.

Rupert Baker is amused by a satirical take on Samuel Pepys and the publication history of a book which drained the coffers of the Royal Society.