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The sailor's hornpipe dance
The hornpipe dance hasn't always been associated with sailors and dancing on deck.
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Ship launching ceremonies
Launching ceremonies of times past were often more barbarous than the champagne tradition of today.
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Sailors' cap ribbons
The silk ribbons on a sailor’s cap came to be through both custom and regulation
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A universal map in a dead language
This blog takes a look at an almost five-hundred-year-old geographical text in the Caird Library and Archive.
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Promoting British prowess at sea: records of The Navy League
This blog introduces a recently catalogued archive covering the activities of The Navy League, later The Sea Cadet Association, over a period of 100 years, from 1894 to 1994
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Spies: the Georgian secret intelligence service
The Caird Library and Archive’s new display case gives a brief insight into the world of spies through their own words
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Ups and downs: the journal of an emigrant to Australia
This blog looks at the entertaining diaries of James Anthony Gardner, written on his passage to New South Wales in 1829
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Boys and apprentices at the Dreadnought
Discover some of the surprising entries recently discovered in the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital. Are you able to join our transcription project and help to unearth more?
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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 shortlist revealed
See a selection of the incredible space images shortlisted in Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023
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The art of rivalry: Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds
The two leading portrait painters of the 18th century weren't just competing for commissions. They each held fundamentally different beliefs about art