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People's Choice award: Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022
Which is YOUR favourite photo from this year's award-winning line-up?
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How to talk to children about the climate crisis
Explore resources and top tips for talking to children about the climate crisis.
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A gruesome mutiny through the eyes of a witness
This Caird Library and Archive blog looks at the naval career of David O’Brien Casey and how he bore witness to one of the most horrific mutinies of the 18th century
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A window into 19th century healthcare: stories from the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital registers
From grim workhouses to 'the salutary influence' of the Bath Mineral Water Hospital, learn about 19th century health and hospitals through the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital.
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Diamond Rock: how an uninhabited island became a sloop-of-war
This Caird Library & Archive blog looks at the occupation and brief naval career of Diamond Rock, one of the Royal Navy’s first stone frigates
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Art in focus: inside the ship’s cabin
Discover how a little-known painting changed the face of naval portraiture
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Lone women and the Royal Navy
The Caird Library & Archive’s new display case highlights first-hand accounts of women’s experiences and contributions to the nineteenth-century Royal Navy
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A ghost of Christmas repast
This blog looks at two very different accounts of a Christmas meal - that of a Scottish man emigrating to Australia in 1879 and of a young Admiral, Sir George James Perceval, 6th Earl of Egmont, in 1806
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Inspiring architecture at the Queen's House
Refined, stylish, revolutionary – the white cube of the Queen's House influenced centuries of British architecture
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Messages from our Ocean: Art from World Oceans Day Climate Session
See work produced by Rathfern Primary School as part of World Oceans Day 2022