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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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Dr Claire Warrior
Senior Curator of Content
Areas of expertise: Exploration; the Arctic and Antarctic, maritime history, museums, collecting and material culture
Other topics of interest: First Nations and Indigenous histories (North America), family history, memory and identity
Media work: BBC News, BBC Breakfast, Channel 4 News, Sunday Brunch, Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship, Museum Secrets, LBC, the Guardian, New Scientist, National Geographic
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Katherine Gazzard
Curator of Art
Areas of expertise: Captain James Cook, Portraiture; specialising in Royal Navy, British art, naval uniform
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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Simon Stephens
Curator of Ship Models and Small Boats
Areas of expertise: Ship history, Spanish Armada, Shackleton and polar history
Other topics of interest: Pirates, model making including POW work, toys and kits, LEGO
Media work: History Hit, BBC's Hidden Treasures of the National Trust, Salvage Hunters
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Tim May
Curator of Maps and Mobilities
Areas of expertise: Maps, charts, atlases, globes, and objects relating to the lived experience of migration.
Other topics of interest: Latin America, Indigenous encounters, decoloniality, ontological politics, queer arts and history.
Media work: Talk of the Thames podcast, international print.
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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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Curators and astronomers at Royal Museums Greenwich are available to speak on a wide range of subjects.
Nelson and Navy
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Queen's House, art and architecture
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Cutty Sark
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Maps, globes and contemporary maritime
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World Wars
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British Empire and trade
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Astronomy, navigation and time
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Life at sea
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Ships and battles
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Titanic
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Royal history
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Astronomers at Royal Observatory Greenwich
Royal Observatory astronomers are available to speak on a wide range of space and astronomy subjects
