Search Results for "poetry"
Rhyme and reason
history of scienceWhy was the poet Alfred Tennyson elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1865? Ainsley Vinall investigates.
Deep time in rhyme
history of scienceKeith Moore finds pteranodons and some truly prehistoric poetry while cataloguing the Royal Society's exhibition programmes.
King Lion
history of scienceArchivist Virginia Mills looks in on the Red Lion Club, founded in 1839 by Edward Forbes FRS as a protest against the ‘Dons and Donnishness of science’.