In the archives

Posted by: Laurence Scales
Date posted: 30.06.2016

An unassuming painting in the Ri archive sets Laurence Scales on the trail of an 1841 voyage to the bottom of the world.

Posted by: Rupert Cole
Date posted: 11.02.2016

G I Taylor presenting the 1936 CHRISTMAS LECTURES.

Ri historian Rupert Cole looks at the history of the CHRISTMAS LECTURES on television, 80 years after they were first broadcast.

Posted by: Laurence Scales
Date posted: 18.09.2015

Laurence Scales on the subtle intrigue, hidden beauty, and baffling complexity of a model of a farm gate: a personal favourite from the Ri collections.

Posted by: Laurence Scales
Date posted: 26.06.2015

Laurence Scales looks at the life of Joseph Henry Barcroft: physiologist, Quaker, and reckless self-experimenter.

Posted by: Laurence Scales
Date posted: 10.06.2015

Albert, Prince Consort, on his deathbed at Windsor Castle, Wellcome Images

Laurence Scales introduces seven doctors who cared for royalty, and were also members of Ri.

Posted by: Jane Harrison
Date posted: 25.04.2015

One story of Gallipoli told through letters home in memory of Anzac Day.

Posted by: Laurence Scales
Date posted: 11.03.2015

15 inch high-explosive howitzer shells. Circa 1917

Laurence Scales investigates Ri member John Fletcher Moulton: lawyer, scientist, and Director of Explosive Supplies in WW1.

Posted by: Roland Jackson
Date posted: 21.01.2015

In the lead up to the launch of the first volume of Tyndall's correspondence, Ri historian Roland Jackson asks how many people really appreciate John Tyndall’s significance?

Join us on Wednesday 4 March 2015 for a series of expert talks on Tyndall’s early life, his relationship with the Ri and the future of collaborative humanities research.