News, Blogs and Essays
Securing Our Future at Burlington House
With our location at Burlington House secure, we can focus on working for a world where nature is understood, valued, and protected
8th March 2024
“No one knows what is in it”: Cataloguing the Linnean Society Domestic Archive
At the end of an immense project to catalogue the papers of the Linnean Society itself, Project Archivist Alex Milne recounts the process of working with this important collection.
14th February 2024
Building Nature Connections with The Wave Project
We partnered with The Wave Project to run events like tree planting, night-time safaris, and urban birdwatching to promote nature as a tool for young people’s wellbeing.
5th February 2024
"A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest": The Linnean Society's Iron Chest
This month, Project Archivist Alex Milne is looking into the history of the Iron Chest that once held the Society's most important organisational documents and artefacts.
12th January 2024
Neither ashore, nor afloat: Jonathan Couch and "A History of the Fishes of the British Islands"
This month, Assistant Archivist Christina McCulloch has been sifting through research (including our newly catalogued Domestic Archive) to look into the fantastic manuscript of Couch’s A History of the Fishes of the British Islands
5th January 2024
Inside the Fish Skin Collection: Ollie Crimmen and the Lost Radiographs
This month's Treasure is our retiring curator of zoology, Ollie Crimmen, whose first job at the NHM was to X-ray the Linnaean fishes, as described by NHM's Chrissy Williams below.
28th November 2023
