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What does the Royal Society Library want for Christmas? Keith Moore lists some stocking fillers to plug the gaps in our printed book collections.

Louisiane Ferlier looks at the three books donated to the Royal Society Library by mathematician Augustus De Morgan, all with intriguing inscriptions and insertions.

Louisiane Ferlier finds a few surprises on the 'Language and Literature' shelves of the Royal Society Library.

Books by Bertrand Russell pop up in a variety of places in the collections of the Royal Society Library, as Rupert Baker explains.

Ellen Embleton discovers how the Royal Society Library acquired its collection of engravings, including more than 900 portraits amassed by the scientific writer John Peter Gassiot FRS.

How did the designer of a theatrical device to project ‘ghosts’ on the Victorian stage come to donate a significant collection of books to the Royal Society Library? Louisiane Ferlier investigates...

Keith Moore looks at a new book on the fragile history of libraries, and reflects on changing practices in the Royal Society's own collection.

In the modern era of digital journals, Louisiane Ferlier makes the case for engaging with their print predecessors, using the Royal Society Library's vast periodicals collection as an example.

From Galileo to Robert Hooke and Charles Darwin, Louisiane Ferlier casts a critical eye on media stories of treasures 'disappearing' from, and being 'rediscovered' in, archives and libraries.

We’re excited to launch our new online collections portal and catalogue search, bringing the collections of the Royal Society together in one location with a cleaner and more user-friendly design.

91TV's Louisiane Ferlier examines the world of rare book collecting, and how important provenance can be when valuing works.

Louisiane Ferlier looks at the 1681 catalogue of the Royal Society's Arundel Library, and how Fellows and librarians annotated their copies.