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A look at the life and achievements of Cutty Sark's designer Hercules Linton.
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One of my recent cataloguing projects has been a collection of business records relating to Sir William Fraser, principal managing owner of several vessels in the service of the East India Company at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. The catalogued items all have the prefix FRS in the Archive Catalogue.
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Read about the eventful history of the world's only surviving tea clipper as it approaches 150 years old.
'Captain Teach commonly call'd Black Beard'
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.
Night sky highlights - December 2018
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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.
Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-92)
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.
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Photographic portrait miniatures inspired by 16th century works of art, on display in the Queen's House.
HMS 'Erebus' passing through the chain of bergs, 1842 (BHC3654)
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.