News, Blogs and Essays

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...

The Results of the 2019-20 BioMedia Competition!

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the BioMedia Meltdown Competition this year. Here are the announcements that you've all been waiting for!

After the Present Fire: The Linnean Society during the Second World War

During WW2, ‘sheltering in place’ was not an option for our collections, that eventually travelled to several locations. Isabelle Charmantier, Head of Collections, writes about these journeys, and how the war led to new ways of doing things.

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