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Meet the team
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Dr Aaron Jaffer
Curator of World History and Cultures
Areas of expertise: Indian Ocean seafarers (Lascars), Black seafarers, Chinese seafarers, the British Empire.
Other topics of interest: Historic photographs, Japan, Barbary corsairs (Barbary pirates).
Media work: History Hit, BBC Radio 4, Discovery Channel, national print.
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Louise Macfarlane
Senior Curator, Maritime Technologies
Areas of expertise: Cutty Sark, merchant marine, life at sea in the nineteenth century, the tea trade in the nineteenth century, maritime photography
Other topics of interest: Literature, football and sea swimming
Media work: Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, BBC Radio, BBC London News, Roux Down the River, How the Victorians Built Britain, Mariner’s Mirror podcast, national print
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Laura Boon-Williams
Lloyd’s Register Foundation Senior Curator, Contemporary Maritime
Areas of expertise: Ocean literacy, life at sea and the Merchant Navy (contemporary), Sustainable shipping, containerisation, commercial fishing, Marine Protected Areas, whaling
Other topics of interest: The history of environmental protest, women of the RNLI, maritime women, animals at sea, eco travel
Media work: History Hit, TV news (international), print (national), radio (local)
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Dr Hannah Stockton
Curator, Maritime London and Merchant Marine
Areas of expertise: Maritime London and the Thames, Princess Alice disaster, Thames watermen, Cutty Sark, merchant marine, mudlarking, tea trade
Other topics of interest: Crafting, family history, oral histories
Media work: BBC Radio 4 Front Row, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, CBS News, Channel 5 Maps of Britain, podcasts, national print
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Lucy Dale
Curator of Maritime and Digital Collections
Areas of expertise: Oral history, scurvy, Titanic, Merchant Navy (first half of the 20th century), digital preservation, edged weapons
Other topics of interest: History of medicine, literature, film
Media work: If it Ain’t Baroque podcast
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Curators and astronomers at Royal Museums Greenwich are available to speak on a wide range of subjects.
Explorers and exploration
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Nelson and Navy
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Ships and battles
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World Wars
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Astronomy, navigation and time
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Cutty Sark
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Queen's House, art and architecture
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Royal history
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Titanic
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Maps, globes and contemporary maritime
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Life at sea
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Press enquiries: astronomers at Royal Observatory Greenwich
Royal Observatory astronomers are available to speak on a wide range of space and astronomy subjects
