Stories from our Collections

Opuscula Unbound: Organising our 'Little Works'

Janet Ashdown and Leonie Berwick look into some of the Society's opuscula, discovering a quirk or two along the way.

Metal and memories of World War 2

On occasion, we find mysterious artefacts in our collections. In this case, an old bullet. Curator of Artefacts Glenn Benson finds out more...

Collinson’s Connections: The Commonplace Book of Peter Collinson

Assistant Archivist Luke Thorne writes about his work cataloguing the "commonplace books" of 18th-century botanist, Peter Collinson

Black Lives Matter in our Collections

The Ark, Origins of Marine Research in Scotland

Joan Beauchamp Procter FLS