https://www.linnean.org/ en-GB Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0100 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:58:30 +0100 https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/04/19/unlocking-our-future Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0100 Our new strategy for 2024–2030 https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/04/15/wanderings-with-wallace-the-winner-of-our-2023-portrait-competition Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:42:00 +0100 Find out about the winner of our 2023 New Portrait Competition https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/04/08/the-new-naturalist-library Mon, 08 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0100 Not all the treasures in the Linnean Society’s collections are venerable antiques. This month’s featured item—in fact, a whole series of items—is a masterpiece of the mid-20th century https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/04/04/linnean-society-announces-2024-medal-and-award-recipients Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0100 Congratulations to all of our medal and award winners for 2024 https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/03/13/stella-ross-craigs-paint-box Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:22:00 +0000 This month, Dr Henry Noltie FLS writes about botanist Stella Ross-Craig's wonderful paintbox, which he has just donated to the Society. https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/03/08/securing-our-future-at-burlington-house Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:03:00 +0000 With our location at Burlington House secure, we can focus on working for a world where nature is understood, valued, and protected https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/02/14/no-one-knows-what-is-in-it-cataloguing-the-linnean-society-domestic-archive Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:31:00 +0000 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. https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/02/05/building-nature-connections-with-the-wave-project Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:46:00 +0000 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. https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/01/12/a-jewel-in-a-ten-times-barrd-up-chest-the-linnean-society-iron-chest Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:05:00 +0000 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. https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/01/05/jonathan-couch-and-a-history-of-the-fishes-of-the-british-islands Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:52:00 +0000 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 https://www.linnean.org/news/2023/11/28/inside-the-fish-skin-collection-the-lost-radiographs Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:39:00 +0000 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. https://www.linnean.org/news/2023/11/24/the-linnean-society-and-stem-live-bring-classification-workshops-to-over-5-000-schools Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:10:00 +0000 We partnered with STEM Live for an innovative and engaging digital journey through the history of classification - and why it matters today