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The new volume of Royal Society Biographical Memoirs includes genetic discoveries, theories of memory, and much more. 

The latest volume of Biographical Memoirs celebrates scientific endeavours across all scales, from big questions about extra-terrestrial life, to the small matter of how a cell dies.   

A brief history of theoretical chemistry as recorded in Biographical Memoirs.

A new collection of Biographical Memoirs celebrates the astronomers and astrophysicists who made major contributions to the advance of science in the post-World War II era.

Fiona Amery discusses her winning essay on the topic of Northern Lights aural phenomenon accounts in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The new volume of memoirs features achievements in mathematics, astrophysics and beyond.

Peer review has been a cornerstone of the Royal Society publishing process since the early 1830s. Historian Aileen Fyfe discusses here the evolution of pre-publication decision making at the Royal Society, leading to the referee reports employed by journals today.

To coincide with the launch of the Notes and Records Essay Award 2021, we spoke to Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira, the winner of the 2019 prize.

"Petiver has tended to be overlooked by historians of science, even though there is a wealth of fabulous archival material"

91TV has been asking for expert advice on papers submitted for publication since the 1830s, and quality (or something like it) has always been one of the elements under consideration.

A new special issue of Notes and Records delves in to the history of hypnotism in Europe. We asked co-guest editor Andreas-Holger Maehle about the work.