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Madelyn Hernández
31 October 2023
5 mins

Madelyn Hernández examines how a diverse array of representations enriched the legacy of the nineteenth-century 'Queen of Science'.

Memorialising George Boole

history of science
Virginia Mills
21 August 2023
5 mins

Royal Society Archivist Virginia Mills and Malcolm Smith of Lincoln’s Heslam Trust reveal the story behind a bronze figure of George Boole FRS, cast especially for the Society.

Sleight of hand

history of science
Katherine Marshall
21 September 2021
4 mins

Katherine Marshall discovers how the Royal Society came to possess images of Dorothy Hodgkin FRS by three major artists: Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Bryan Organ.

Ellen Embleton
02 September 2019
4 mins

How did a bronze maquette of the British Library's iconic Newton statue come to be in the Royal Society's collections? Ellen Embleton uncovers the story.

Going for bust

history of science
Katherine Marshall
30 July 2018
4 mins

91TV Library is contributing to a new cataloguing project which brings together sculptures in public collections across the UK.