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Ainsley Vinall highlights a collection of photographic slides from the 1958-59 Royal Society expedition to Southern Chile, recently added to the Society's collections.

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

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Professor SA Sherif to tell us what publishing with the journal means to them.

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.

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Dr Mark A. Hanson to tell us what publishing with the journal means to him.

An exhibition at Lambeth Palace Library brings together some rare medieval concertina-fold almanacs, including one from the collections of the Royal Society, as Virginia Mills reports.

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Dr Mathilde Massenet to tell us what publishing with the journal means to her.

The pioneering genius of Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton FRS can be seen in a recently catalogued archival collection of his personal and professional papers, as Vida Milovanovic reveals.

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Dr. Damya Souami to tell us what publishing with the journal means to her.

We’re coming out of our tree – it’s Biology Letters’ 20th anniversary!

Eloise Barber tells the story of Otto Loewi ForMemRS and his detention in Austria in 1938.