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Rupert Baker finds tales of beer and brewing in the archives of the Royal Society, along with a poisoned dagger and some tricky handwriting.

Ellen Embleton looks at the ‘thermometer for higher degrees of heat’ developed in the early 1780s by potter and Fellow of the Royal Society Josiah Wedgwood.

Ellen Embleton looks into the history of data visualisation, and highlights the work of Joseph Priestley, Luke Howard and Florence Nightingale.

A look inside the Priestley Papers, a hefty 'scrapbook' given to the Royal Society Library by collector James Yates FRS.