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James Creassy's journal (Item ID: JOD/304) is over 300 pages long and written in perfectly legible handwriting - a rare find for material from 1777! He does not say why he is travelling to Bengal, but records in detail the entertaining, dramatic and sometimes rather distressing events that take place during the journey.

Cleaning and consolidation of a 19th century mask from Vanuatu, Melanesia

What can the back of a painting tell us? Paintings conservator Lucy Odlin sheds some light on the often overlooked underside of Tudor masterpieces.

Discover records relating to the Women's Royal Naval Service in this new Caird Library and Archive display, February - June 2018.

The Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition has changed its entrants'; lives in many ways: from the medical school drop-out who gained the confidence of his parents, to the parent who built his own observatory after becoming fascinated by his son's astronomy homework.

Political Agent is the eighth post in our series exploring the many fascinating identities Emma Hamilton held throughout her life. It explores Emma's extraordinary political influence during her time in Naples.

From 2014 the archives department has been focusing on cataloguing World War One manuscripts. In October 2017 while cataloguing, I came across the diary of a man who wrote only so his children would have something first hand from their father rather than just what they read in the news.

Reflecting on the new blockbuster Black Panther, Sacha Coward explores the film's relevance to the National Maritime Museum, a museum whose collections and themes are closely tied to the British Empire.

In preparation of the opening of our exciting new galleries, textile conservator Nicky Yates talks us through her treatment of Lieutenant Alfred Parr's leather over suit, worn on his Arctic Expedition to the North Pole.

Looking back 100 years into the creation of the Royal Air Force through the words of the pilots.