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Sledge from Shackleton Antarctic expedition goes on display
100 years on from the explorer's death, a sledge used during Shackleton's Nimrod expedition has found a new home in the National Maritime Museum. Curator Jeremy Michell looks back on the efforts to save this important polar relic for the nation.
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Samuel Pepys
Naval reformer, citizen scientist, serious player on the national stage, MP and prisoner of the Tower of London; Samuel Pepys was all these but it is his candid diary that has ensured he remains a household name centuries after his death.
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British colonial life in the East Indies: the diaries of Lady Dorothy Fullerton
The personal diary of a Royal Navy commander's wife offers a striking insight into the lives of the British ruling classes in 1920s India and Sri Lanka.
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Musing on a mollusc: Brunel’s inspiration for the Thames Tunnel
The year 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of the opening in 1869 of the East London railway line, completed in 1843 with the help of pioneering technology invented by Marc Isambard Brunel
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BISHI: shining a light on colonial histories
How artist BISHI transformed the Queen’s House and Old Royal Naval College for Diwali