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Edward Thatch had built up a fearsome reputation as the most notorious pirate of the early 18th Century. Never heard of him? If you had lived in His Majesty’s colony of Virginia in 1718 you certainly would have.
Artist Mat Collishaw talks about his Mask of Youth and reflects on the masks Elizabeth I wore all her life.
Author and historian Stephen Bourne shares stories of the African and Caribbean Royal and Merchant Navy personnel who served in the First World War.
Within the Caird Library’s collection of rare books is the personal library of the seventh Astronomer Royal, Sir George Biddell Airy. It features a plethora of scientific and astronomical research, as well as some of the Library’s most historically significant works such as Copernicus’s influential De revolutionibus orbium coelestium and Flamsteed’s controversial Historiae coelestis, which was published without his consent.
Photographic portrait miniatures inspired by 16th century works of art, on display in the Queen's House.
On the run up to Halloween most of us like to sit around and tell each other ghost stories, so here are two from one of our books in the library “The Phantom Ship” by R. L. Hadfield published 1937 (RMG ID: PBB4629), that hopefully leave you with icy fingers crawling up your spine.
October’s Item of the Month looks at a practical astronomical work written by the husband and wife team of Walter and Annie Maunder. The Maunders worked in the Solar Department of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich in the early 1890s.
The Caird Library’s display case has a new display featuring items which tell the story of early steam vessels.
For many of us, Halloween offers a chance to embrace our fascination with fear. But for the crew of Cutty Sark, every day of the year could hold deadly threat.
