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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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Katherine Gazzard
Curator of Art
Areas of expertise: Portraiture (specialising in Royal Navy), British art, naval uniforms, Captain James Cook
Other topics of interest: Jane Austen, English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds
Media work: BBC Radio 4, History Hit, national print, Short History of…
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Andrew Choong Han Lin
Curator, Historic Photographs, Ship Plans & Technical Records
Areas of expertise: First World War and Second World War, British, Japanese and US naval history, and the evolution of naval technology and warfare between 1860 and 1945
Other topics of interest: Victorian/Edwardian science fiction, naval wargaming, historical reenactment (Napoleonic)
Media work: Documentaries including Shipwreck Secrets: The Battle of Jutland, Combat Ships, Secrets of the Lost Liners, Sunken Warships: Secrets from the Deep, History Hit: Hunt the Bismarck, Pirates
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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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Martin Salmon
Archivist and Curator of Manuscripts
Areas of expertise: Pacific exploration, James Cook and Matthew Flinders, Nelson's Navy and battles, logbooks and naval records, archives and historical research, transcription, palaeography and interpretation, c17-20.
Other topics of interest: Personal papers & Letters of ‘the lower deck’, post 1850 passenger journals and travel writing.
Media work: Guardian newspaper. Talks: BBC Cook 250th anniversary, Nelson Society, Australian and New Zealand High Commissioners.
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Alex Grover
Assistant Curator of Historic Photographs and Ship Plans
Areas of Expertise: Naval and merchant ship design, ship plans, SS Great Eastern, British polar photography, naval mutinies, ship badge design, World Wars, naval battles, Emma, Lady Hamilton.
Other topics of interest: Arctic Polar exploration, warships, battlecruisers, shipwrecks, maritime disasters, John Dee.
Media work: Local BBC, talks and conferences.
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Explorers and exploration
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British Empire and trade
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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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