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A brief introduction to uniforms in the Museum collection, intended to help costume researchers and anyone interested in the period

This guide gives a brief outline of flags in the National Maritime Museum, followed by a list of historic foreign flags, which form a splendid part of the collection

How to access source material on famous explorers, navigators and hydrographers including polar explorers

This guide will help you research famous explorers, navigators and hydrographers. It gives a brief account of their voyages and lists some of the material related to them held by the National Maritime Museum

This guide outlines the Atlas Collection of bound volumes of charts, maps and sailing directions held by the Hydrography Section of the Museum

This guide is a brief introduction to the museum's collection of manuscript and printed hydrography (charts), cartography (maps), written sailing directions, originally known as 'portolans', and pilot books

This guide outlines basic sources for studying the life and achievements of James Cook. It details resources available at the National Maritime Museum and elsewhere

This guide outlines the museum's collection of printed books, manuscripts and artefacts relating to music and the sea

This guide lists some of the extensive collection of publications held by the Museum relating to the contemporary marine environment

This guide outlines useful sources for research on women and the sea, chiefly at the National Maritime Museum but also The National Archives