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    Cutty Sark Open daily 10am-6pm Last entry 5.15pm Adult: £18 | Child: £9 Members go free
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    Partial solar eclipse 2026 LIVE Watch back the Royal Observatory Greenwich's live stream of the 90%+ partial solar eclipse visible from the UK and Ireland
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    Cutty Sark Rig Climb Experience life at sea and climb the rigging of one of London's true icons
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    Astronomers Take Over This brand-new interactive gallery gives curious minds aged 4 to 104 the space to play, learn and explore!
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    Inside the megaship: on board one of the world's biggest container ships What is it like to sail on one of the giants of global trade? Artist and researcher Zoe Childerley journeyed aboard HMM Southampton to find out
    ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist Discover a selection of the breathtaking images shortlisted in the global astrophotography competition
    Making Waves: Dr Dawn Wright Oceanographer and chief scientist Dr Dawn Wright on diving to the deepest part of the ocean – and why we need to stand up for our blue planet
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Black Holes: A Guide
If you could squash the Earth into a ball the size of a marble, it would become a black hole. What are these mysterious entities?
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A new figurehead for Cutty Sark
Discover how traditional skills and careful research have breathed new life into Cutty Sark's figurehead 'Nannie'
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Ice cores and climate change
By extracting ice cores from Antarctica, scientists are able to travel more than 800,000 years back into Earth’s climate history
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How to make a log line
Learn how to make your own log line and measure speed in knots!
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The Instrument of Surrender
This month we take a look at an item from the Historical Records Collection of the Caird Library and Archive: the Instrument of Surrender of the Japanese forces at Hong Kong.
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Dickens and The Great Stink of 1858
For many, Charles Dickens is synonymous with Christmas jollity. However, there was a darker side to Dickens’ work. Not only did he repeatedly refer in his novels and articles to the contemporary filth of the Thames, which culminated in the Great Stink crisis of 1858, he was also actively involved in kick-starting the reform programmes to resolve the issue.
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Crafting identity: the making of Queering Piracy
Queering Piracy is a contemporary artwork that explores how some LGBTQ+ communities have adopted and embraced pirate history and symbolism
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