2019 marks 100 years since women were able to be elected as Fellows of the Geological Society, with the first eight elected in May 1919. They came from a diverse range of specialisms, backgrounds and experience – as part of our activities to mark the anniversary, we’re profiling each of them. Continue reading
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100 years of female Fellows: Gertrude Lilian Elles
2019 marks 100 years since women were able to be elected as Fellows of the Geological Society, with the first eight elected in May 1919. They came from a diverse range of specialisms, backgrounds and experience – as part of our activities to mark the anniversary, we’re profiling each of them. Continue reading
100 years of female Fellows: Margaret Crosfield
2019 marks 100 years since women were able to be elected as Fellows of the Geological Society, with the first eight elected in May 1919. They came from a diverse range of specialisms, backgrounds and experience – as part of our activities to mark the anniversary, we’re profiling each of them. Continue reading
Celebrating the 25th year of Petroleum Geoscience
A guest post from Philip S Ringrose, Chief Editor of Petroleum Geoscience – a co-owned journal of the Geological Society of London and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE). Continue reading
Happy birthday to us!
The Geological Society was founded on 13th November 1807 – 210 years ago today!
Ten years ago, we celebrated our 200th birthday with a year long programme of events – here’s some highlights of what took place… Continue reading
A tale of three meetings
The Geological Society’s meeting room has changed a lot in the last century. Until a refurb in the seventies, it looked very much how it had done for most of its life – raked rows of benches standing opposite each other, an impressive throne (which now sits forlornly in a corner outside my office) at … Continue reading
Happy birthday to us!
Today marks our blog’s one year anniversary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed, commented, shared or visited! As ever, on a momentous occasion such as this, YouTube has not let us down. Continue reading
Sharpe of the Antarctic
Following in the footsteps of Scott It’s a hundred years since Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill fated expedition to Antarctica, and the anniversary is being marked by many events this year and next. I’m currently on my way to visit Scott’s hut at Cape Evans, on the west side of Ross Island, where Scott built … Continue reading