As new technologies and instruments transformed astronomy in the late 1800s, observatory directors around the world started to employ women as cheap labour to help assemble and process vast amounts of ...
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is the historic home of British astronomy, Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian of the world. The Royal Observatory was founded by Charles II in 1675, and now ...
12 December marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of Queen Anne of Denmark. A keen patron of the arts, she commissioned architect Inigo Jones to design the Queen's House. Head to the Queen's House ...
Read the latest issue of our magazine for supporters of Royal Museums Greenwich Guiding Lights is an annual publication for supporters of Royal Museums Greenwich. Created by the Development Team, it ...
The Royal Navy's ship HMS Ark Royal is the fifth by that name to have served the Crown. The first HMS Ark Royal was built at Deptford on the River Thames in 1587, to the order of Sir Walter Raleigh.
The history of water and surface environments on early Mars is encoded in the planet’s sedimentary rocks. The traverses made by the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers offer us remarkable windows into ...
Find out how the celebrated Astronomer Royal helped to solve the longitude problem How did astronomers including Nevil Maskelyne, fifth Astronomer Royal, help solve the longitude problem? In the ...
This guide looks at sources for research into Cutty Sark available in the Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. More information about the ship and the ...
Please be advised we recommend this event for ages 12+. Through private letters, family photographs and archival documents, Dan E. Parkes shares the untold story of the tragic and inspirational legacy ...
Discover how a rich collection of papers related to a Napoleonic prisoner of war has been made available for anyone to explore at the Caird Library and Archive Cataloguing is crucial to managing ...
The museum's manuscript resources for researching impressment and press gangs are listed below under the eight manuscript sections used by the museum and give reference number, brief description and ...
Ijoyemi has been part of a project to reimagine the Atlantic Worlds gallery at the National Maritime Museum, a space that explores the unequal, sometimes brutal histories of the Atlantic Ocean. The ...