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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.

Find out everything you wanted to know about partial and total solar eclipses, including when to see them in the UK

World War I might have ended for some in 1919, but for others fighting continued, whether they liked it or not.

In this blog we look at some examples of the various and evolving sources of financial aid for the dependants of naval seamen who died in service, from the mid-19th to mid-20th century, using documents found in three small manuscript collections of naval seamen

This blog looks at an illustrated log recently added to the collection of papers from the naval career of Admiral Sir Watkin Owen Pell. It reveals how a prize crew was shipwrecked and captured on the enemy’s coast during the Napoleonic Wars.

A Royal Navy officer's personal illustrated account of a long surveying voyage mapping the African coast, 1821-1826.