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Red letter day

history of science
Vanessa Knight
04 February 2020
6 mins

A reason to rejoice for Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™s archive team this February: every item in the New Letter Book series is now fully described!

The Collector Earl

history of science
Vanessa Knight
26 November 2019
7 mins

Explore the Society’s correspondence from the 1920s, which charts the period in Spring 1925 when Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­ held a book sale of over 200 volumes from the Arundel Library.

Flamsteed observed

history of science
Ellen Embleton
13 May 2019
4 mins

Ellen Embleton traces the comings and goings of a clock made by Thomas Tompion for John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal.

Chemists in demand

history of science
Ellen Embleton
20 August 2018
4 mins

Ellen Embleton looks at the transformation of the British chemical industry during and after the First World War, in response to criticism by several Fellows of Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­.

Brains and radium

history of science
Adele Allen
13 December 2016
4 mins

Adele Allen explains how research into sleeping sickness and radiation gave rise to some interesting parcel deliveries in the early twentieth century.