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Night Sky Highlights - November 2025
Explore what you can see in the night sky this November, including the brightest star in the night sky and the brightest full Moon of the year!
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Open Waves sessions
Open Waves is a unique, free wellbeing session series, for participants aged 25-45 from African Caribbean communities, led by audiovisual artist and live looping specialist Jasmine Kahlia
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Salons in the Queen's House: Breadfruit and the Creolising of Caribbean Foodways
In this free lunchtime talk historian Jade Lindo explored the historical and cultural significance of breadfruit in the Caribbean
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott was the first British explorer to reach the South Pole and explore Antarctica extensively by land in the early 1900s.
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Spot the pirate: power, perception and perspective
A new painting by Maïa Walcott seeks to reframe notions of piracy
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Henry Clifford, artist and engineer
Despite art being his first love, Henry Clifford went on to play a key role in the pioneering transatlantic cable-laying expeditions of the nineteenth century.
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How can shipping be more environmentally friendly?
From Cutty Sark to cutting edge technology, could a new era of wind power help global trade go green?
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Unfolding the past: Elgin Cleckley and the Atlantic Worlds gallery
Through colour and cardboard, a contemporary artwork at the National Maritime Museum shifts perspectives on the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans
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What is a sea shanty?
From sailor songs to TikTok sensations, find out more about the history of the sea shanty, and discover the meanings behind 'The Wellerman' and other famous examples