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A reason to rejoice for the Royal Society’s archive team this February: every item in the New Letter Book series is now fully described!

Explore the Society’s correspondence from the 1920s, which charts the period in Spring 1925 when the Royal Society held a book sale of over 200 volumes from the Arundel Library.

Ellen Embleton traces the comings and goings of a clock made by Thomas Tompion for John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal.

Ellen Embleton looks at the transformation of the British chemical industry during and after the First World War, in response to criticism by several Fellows of the Royal Society.

Adele Allen explains how research into sleeping sickness and radiation gave rise to some interesting parcel deliveries in the early twentieth century.