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ºìÌÒÊÓƵ declared that women were eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1922 but, as Keith Moore notes, a fallow period persisted for another two decades.

Women undoubtedly read and worked in ºìÌÒÊÓƵ library long before they became eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1945, as Louisiane Ferlier explains.

To mark International Women’s Day, Dr Stella Butler celebrates the achievements of the first women scientists elected to the Fellowship of ºìÌÒÊÓƵ – and some of those who just missed out.

Jon Bushell explains how a project to re-photograph more than 5,800 Royal Society Election Certificates has resulted in a much-improved digital resource.

ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Referees’ Reports from 1832 to 1949 are now catalogued - all 14,828 of them!

Keith Moore tells the stories of scientists who have fallen foul of the authorities, from Galileo and Samuel Pepys to Holloway Prison inmates Thomas Pelham Dale and Kathleen Lonsdale.