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Peripatetic presidential papers
While the Library and the new Events Room displaying their new improved appearance and facilities are now open and available to users, the archives are continuing to return from their vacation in the...
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Refugee Scientists
27 January 2011 is Holocaust Memorial Day, when we remember the victims and those whose lives have been changed by Nazi persecution, and later genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. This...
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Asturias Award activities – an Archivist’s view
The Royal Society was this year presented with the Prince of Asturias Prize for Communication and the Humanities, received by the Royal Society President Paul Nurse at the awards ceremony in Oviedo on...
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Things that go bump in the night…
I’ll take any excuse to write a suitably seasonal blog post, and a recent enquiry concerning a paper about witchcraft in our Robert Boyle collection prompted me to see if we had any other eerie...
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Sending season’s greetings
Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas, but for the last few months I have been resolutely ignoring the festive music which has been playing in the shops. It must test the patience of sales staff being...
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‘Hear, hear!’ Radio science in 1945
‘There’s always an idea that scientific things are necessarily dull; well, I think my colleagues and myself can dissipate that once and for all.’ Historians would often like to have been a fly on a...
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Hands-on history of science
If one is going to inspire students to begin to think, research and write like historians of science I find it impossible to imagine a better place to start than the Royal Society archives. Grant...
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The making of Jodrell Bank
As a small child I vividly remember visiting Jodrell Bank and being awestruck by the enormous radio telescope. I also went spinning around in a ‘zero gravity’ chair for far longer than health and...
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