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To coincide with the major exhibition Pirates, the National Maritime Museum, London will be celebrating International Talk Like a Pirate Day on the weekend of 19 September 2025 – 21 September 2025.

Discover some of the surprising entries recently discovered in the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital.

Queering Piracy is a contemporary artwork that explores how some LGBTQ+ communities have adopted and embraced pirate history and symbolism

One of the many treasures to be found in the collections of the Caird Library is John Pine's The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year 1588 (RMG ID: PBE3597)

JOD/332 is a log kept by Captain Stanley Algar while a Prisoner of War at the Milag Nord camp near Bremen. However, the diary is not all it seems, while I was expecting to read Stanley Algar’s story of his capture and the gruelling day to day life in the camp, what it contained was quite different.

This event at the National Maritime Museum explores the importance of play

From a Titanic relic to the jacket Nelson wore at the Battle of Trafalgar, dive into our seafaring past at the National Maritime Museum