October 2011
This month, On the line talks finds out about the Museum's new gallery Traders:The East India Company and Asia.
Previous issues
October 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
April 2011
- Curry and a pint
- Jeffrey Hudson, friend and companion to Queen Henrietta Maria
- Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
November 2010
- Astronomia
- The regulator that kept Gibraltar on time
- James Glacier, astronomer and death-defying meteorologist
- Discovering Asian influences
- The Planetarium Dome
- Astronomy Photographer of the Year
October 2010
- Strange happenings at the National Maritime Museum
- Halley’s comet, fireballs and Ramadan
- The Gibeon meteor
September 2010
- 19th-century sketchbooks and albums
- Charles Green, Royal Observatory Greenwich Assistant and stand-in Astronomer Royal
- Viewing the universe
August 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
- The Watch that Sailed with the Bounty
- The HMS 'Challenger' Expedition and Creatures of the Deep
- Admiral Sir James Saumarez, hero of the Baltic
March 2010
- The War Art of Eric Ravilious
- Edward Walter Maunder and the Science of the Sun at the Royal Observatory
- Pirates and Privateering
February 2010
January 2010
- Quintin Colville tells us about the battleship HMS King George V
- Life behind the scenes at the Royal Observatory
December 2009
October 2009
- Martin Salmon tells stories from the Georgian Navy
- Rebekah Higgitt reveals the history of scientific photography at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
- Rebekah Higgitt reveals how Greenwich became the home of the Prime Meridian
- The story of the original Queen's House ceiling
- Jenny Gashke tells us about Edward Lear and his inspiring voyages down the Nile
September 2009
- Behind the scenes at Astronomy Photographer of the Year
- Nigel Rigby tells the story of ruthless pirate John Gow
August 2009
- Richard Wragg takes an Archive Journey to the poles
- Claire Bretherton tackles a question about the Moon and Mars
- Caroline Herschel, the stellar Cinderella
July 2009
- Dan Falk explores the problem of time travel
- David Rooney investigates plans to build a tidal-powered moon clock
- Jim McNeill - life as an Arctic explorer
June 2009
- Karran Danks reveals how 16-year-old Jack Cornwell won the Victoria Cross
- Letters to a lost explorer - the dispatches of Lady Jane Franklin
- Richard Dunn uncovers the story of Flamsteed's well telescope
May 2009
- Jonathan Betts discusses his recent repair of Harrison's first timekeeper, H1
- The sad tale of Dash the astronomical dog
- Richard Dunn tells us all about the Royal Observatory's 28-inch telescope
April 2009
- Conservator Paul Cook takes a closer look at Arctic artefacts
- David Rooney introduces Rita Atkinson, the 'perfect telephone subscriber'
- Claire Bretherton answers your questions about telescopes in space and dark matter
March 2009
- Rebekah Higgitt uncovers Moon-mapping history
- Margarette Lincoln tells the story of Fanny Loviat
- Jude Holland hears from the Catlin Arctic Survey
- David Rooney talks about the Greenwich bomb
February 2009
- Claire Bretherton answers your questions about the stars, planets and the Moon
- David Haycock and Richard Johns reveal the art of the miniature
- David Rooney tells us the story of the six pips
- Renee Orr reveals the fate of the Titanic through archives from the scene
January 2009
- David Rooney listens in to Long Player - music for the next 1000 years
- Rebekah Higgitt tells us how to play Science and Sport, an astronomy board game
December 2008
- Stephen Moorhouse finds out more about offshore wind turbines around the UK
- Claire Bretherton answers your questions about shooting stars, planetary rings and stardust
- Marek Kukula and Rob Edwards introduce International Year of Astronomy 2009
- David Rooney introduces the first voice of the speaking clock, Ethel Cain
November 2008
- George Oates from Flickr looks at the Museum's historic photographs
- Claire Bretherton answers your questions about the Moon
- David Rooney takes a trip to the Clockmakers' Museum
October 2008
- Claire Bretherton wants to know your big questions about astronomy
- David Rooney visits the Daylight Inn
- Margarette Lincoln tells the story of Mary Lacy
September 2008
- Marek Kukula and Richard Dunn take a closer look at telescopes
- David Haycock and Barbara Tomlinson help dispel some pirate myths
- David Rooney reveals the story of Ruth Belville
August 2008
- Stephen Moorhouse investigates Brighton's beach environment
- Claire Warrior previews Beside the seaside - snapshots of British coastal life
- Claire Bretherton tells us what to look out for in the summer night sky
July 2008
- Meet conservators Caroline Hampton and Virginia Llado-Buisan
- David Rooney introduces St. John Wynne
- Claire Bretherton answers your questions about the Sun
June 2008
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Every month, On the line serves up a selection of short stories from Maritime Greenwich - all told by the people who work here.
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