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Icy relations

history of science
Jon Bushell
22 June 2026
7 mins

Royal Society manuscripts and photographs from the 1901-1904 British National Antarctic Expedition have now been made available on our Science in the Making platform, as Jon Bushell reports.

Charting the weather

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
22 June 2026
7 mins

Louisiane Ferlier unveils the Royal Society's full collection of meteorological observations, now available on our Science in the Making platform.

Medals and milestones

history of science
Eloise Barber
14 April 2026
3 mins

Eloise Barber highlights some notable examples from the Royal Society's collection of medals.

Not only Fellows

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
10 December 2024
3 mins

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

Herschel, old and new

history of science
Keith Moore
13 June 2024
5 mins

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

Enlightened letters

history of science
Rose Teanby
11 June 2024
5 mins

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.

Dear Sir John Herschel

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
07 June 2024
5 mins

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

Eloise Barber
03 June 2024
4 mins

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
07 December 2023
4 mins

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.

Book autopsy

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
04 October 2023
6 mins

Louisiane Ferlier invites you to explore the new online version of an amazing anatomical flap book in the collections of the Royal Society Library.

Focus on Leeuwenhoek

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
10 September 2023
4 mins

Louisiane Ferlier describes how specimens sent to the Royal Society by Dutch scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek were photographed for our Science in the Making platform.

Archived papers

history of science
Layla Hillsden
01 May 2023
6 mins

Archive Cataloguer Layla Hillsden takes a look through a collection of (mostly) unpublished manuscripts in the collections of the Royal Society.