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Guest blogger Nilakshi Das discusses how her research on the scientific careers of South Asian women ties in with the themes of a recent Royal Society conference, ‘Women in Science: historical perspectives’.

An invitation to join the online audience for the Royal Society's ‘Women in Science: historical perspectives’ conference on Tuesday 18 November.

Who is the earliest female author on the shelves of the Royal Society Library? Rupert Baker investigates...

Eloise Barber celebrates the life and work of Barbara McClintock, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society whose research fundamentally reshaped the science of genetics.

Guest blogger Louise Devoy reflects on the first generation of paid female astronomers at Greenwich, who helped to prove that women could actively contribute to professional science.

Two eighteenth-century women, Elizabeth Fulhame and Mary Senex, had contrasting interactions with the Royal Society, as Virginia Mills discovers.

91TV declared that women were eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1922 but, as Keith Moore notes, a fallow period persisted for another two decades.

Katherine Marshall looks at the life of Lady Margaret Huggins, and her significant work in spectroscopic astrophotography in the late nineteenth century.

Women undoubtedly read and worked in the Royal Society library long before they became eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1945, as Louisiane Ferlier explains.

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.

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

Virginia Mills celebrates Stereoscopy Day by telling the story of Lady Mary Rosse, the photographer behind some extraordinary images in the Royal Society’s archives.