Stories from our Collections
The Flying Mountains
Our Digital Assets Manager, Andrea Deneau, provides a little background to an item in our exhibition, Wonder.
12th February 2026
The Council for Nature Collection
Our former and much-missed Project Archivist, Alex Milne, highlights the most-recently catalogued addition to our "Conservation archives" collection.
13th January 2026
Festive dining? A 1782 pub bill
This pub bill shows Carl Linnaeus the Younger living it up in London in 1782.
16th December 2025
Pub Anyone?: The History of the Linnean Club
This month’s 'Treasure of the Month' focuses on a couple of rather unexpected items in the archive: two drink tokens
12th November 2025
Darwin's "Best" Portrait
This month, our Librarian Will Beharrell takes a closer look at one of the Linnean Society's most famous portraits
8th September 2025
Painting En Plein Air – Margaret Woods
This month Archivist, Liz McGow, focusses on a volume of watercolour drawings of British flowers by Margaret Woods (MS/504).
13th August 2025
