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Louisiane Ferlier's cataloguing of a volume of Brook Taylor correspondence at the Royal Society sheds light on the Newton-Leibniz 'calculus controversy'.

Did the Fellows gathered at the Royal Society in February 1738 really entertain an account of a mermaid? Well, not quite, as Rupert Baker discovers.

Louisiane Ferlier reports on the discoverability of non-Fellows in the Royal Society's Science in the Making resource.

91TV’s Herschel collection is growing! Keith Moore describes how a new acquisition provides insights into the wider Herschel family and their scientific endeavours.

Rose Teanby looks at letters in the Royal Society archives highlighting Sir John Herschel’s influence on Anna Atkins, Julia Margaret Cameron and Mary Somerville.

Louisiane Ferlier launches the letters of Sir John Herschel on the Royal Society's Science in the Making platform.

Sir John Herschel’s careful management of his correspondence, and his central position in nineteenth-century science, make the Royal Society’s Herschel letters an invaluable archival resource, as Eloise Barber discovers during a major new digitisation project. 

Louisiane Ferlier reports on how researchers have been using the Royal Society's Science in the Making platform so far, and looks forward to future developments.

91TV's Edward Sabine correspondence is a treasure trove for research on everything from terrestrial magnetism to British activities in Africa, as Hirra Ateeq discovers.

Layla Hilsden finds 'an astonishing and noteworthy story' while cataloguing the Royal Society's Classified Papers collection.

'Parentalia', a manuscript in the archives of the Royal Society, features several members of the illustrious Wren family, as Hirra Ateeq explains.

Professor Anita Guerrini looks at how some eighteenth-century parents decided to subject their children to the risk of smallpox inoculation in the belief that they were acting in their best interests, whether for reasons of dynasty or affection or both.