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Meet the team

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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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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. 

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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Ben Rainbird

Shipkeeping Technician, Cutty Sark

Areas of expertise: Conservation and history of Cutty Sark, carpentry and maintenance.

Other topics of interest: Maritime history, sailing, Star Trek. 

Media work: BBC London, social media, The Thames: Britain's Great River with Tony Robinson

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Maddie Phillips

Shipkeeping Technician, Cutty Sark

Areas of expertise: Conservation and history of Cutty Sark, history and design of Thames barges, maritime heritage, sailing on fore and aft rigged vessels.

Other areas of interest: Knots, yacht racing and history of ocean and circumnavigation racing, history of women in yacht sailing.

Media work: National Geographic, The Thames: Britain's Great River with Tony Robinson.