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Create a lucky fish poster to decorate your home for Lunar New Year.

Create your own hongbao, using origami techniques, to celebrate the New Year.

Explore and learn about the key events and achievements that shaped almost twenty years of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union

Thanks to the work of librarians and curators at the Osher Map Library in Maine, USA, we now know a lot more about the range of women’s involvement in the map trade. Their work highlights the variety of roles women occupied, working as surveyors, compilers, engravers, publishers, and sellers. Looking at the chart trade in earlier nineteenth-century London similarly reveals women were involved in a number of ways, all integral to the provision of navigational information to seagoing vessels. Our Curator of Cartography, Megan Barford, reveals the vital role women played in aiding navigation at sea.

This resource is for teachers bringing groups to Transatlantic Enslavement Study Days at the National Maritime Museum. It contains pre and post visit materials which may also be of interest to other teachers. 

When is the winter solstice this year? What does it mean? Is it the shortest or longest day?