Blog posts and articles from the Royal Society
Frankie Chappell finds examples in the Royal Society's archives showing how scientific research into poisons supported colonial projects of…
By Frankie Chappell
15 December 2020
5 min read
Virginia Mills reopens a Royal Society grant, named after renowned writer and historian Professor Lisa Jardine FRS, which offers opportunities for…
By Virginia Mills
06 January 2021
4 min read
Zoe Davies explains Environment Secretary George Eustice’s ‘Agriculture Transition Plan’, its implications for English land managers, and how it…
By Zoe Davies
11 December 2020
6 min read
Ellen Embleton gets in the seasonal mood and explores Michael Faraday's famous Royal Institution Christmas Lecture, 'The Chemical History of a…
By Ellen Embleton
22 December 2020
4 min read
Keith Moore finds some amusingly inaccurate representations of the Royal Society in newspapers from the nineteenth century.
By Keith Moore
09 December 2020
3 min read
Discussing our transformative deal with librarians, consortia, editors, authors and industry colleagues has been full of surprises.
By Stuart Taylor
02 December 2020
2 min read
Katherine Marshall suggests some Christmas gift ideas from the Royal Society Print Shop.
By Katherine Marshall
01 December 2020
2 min read
Jon Bushell looks at the Nobel Prize certificates in the archives of the Royal Society.
By Jon Bushell
24 November 2020
5 min read
Ahead of the Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture on 26 November, Rupert Baker looks at the history of the WBM Medal and Lecture and its…
By Rupert Baker
17 November 2020
2 min read