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Ellen Embleton considers how the Royal Society Picture Library can highlight the contributions of enslaved and indigenous peoples to fields such as entomology and botany.

Frankie Chappell presents our new Black History Month exhibit on Google Arts & Culture, highlighting stories from the Royal Society’s collections which feature the role of people of African and African-Caribbean descent in the history of science.

In the first of a series of articles to celebrate Black History Month, Keith Moore reviews how the archives of the Royal Society might acknowledge science’s historical links to networks of suffering, and credit Black authority in scientific knowledge.