Search Results for "poetry"

Rhyme and reason

history of science
Ainsley Vinall
30 January 2024
7 mins

Why was the poet Alfred Tennyson elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1865? Ainsley Vinall investigates.

Deep time in rhyme

history of science
Keith Moore
18 May 2020
5 mins

Keith Moore finds pteranodons and some truly prehistoric poetry while cataloguing the Royal Society's exhibition programmes.

King Lion

history of science
Virginia Mills
20 April 2020
7 mins

Archivist 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’.