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Research guide T1: Flags: The National Maritime Museum Collection
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
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Research Guide Q: Exploration
How to access source material on famous explorers, navigators and hydrographers including polar explorers
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Research guide N2: Captain James Cook
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
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Research guide M7: Music and the sea: Sources of information in the National Maritime Museum
This guide outlines the museum's collection of printed books, manuscripts and artefacts relating to music and the sea
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Research guide M5: The marine environment: Sources of information in the National Maritime Museum
This guide lists some of the extensive collection of publications held by the Museum relating to the contemporary marine environment
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Research guide L1: Women and the sea: Sources for research
This guide outlines useful sources for research on women and the sea, chiefly at the National Maritime Museum but also The National Archives
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Research guide K1: Pirates and privateers
This guide lists some of the books, manuscripts and images held by the Museum relating to pirates and privateers
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Research guide H5: Lloyd's: Registers held by the National Maritime Museum
This guide provides information about Lloyd's Register of Shipping as an aid to research. The National Maritime Museum's Library has copies dating from 1764 to date
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Research guide E2: World War Two: Guide to the Dunkirk List
This guide provides an introduction to the official record of Operation Dynamo, the mass evacuation of British troops from France in 1940 during the Second World War