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Find out about some of the most notable artists whose work is held in our fine art collections.

The French Revolution took place between 1789 and 1799, leading to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Frances Nisbet married Lord Nelson in 1787. They were married for over ten years before he met and fell in love with Emma Hamilton.

The art of tattooing has existed for many centuries, across different cultures. We list 10 interesting facts about them and what they mean.

Take a virtual spin and explore one of the National Maritime Museum's most important globes.

Erskine Childers wrote The Riddle of The Sands, a bestselling Edwardian spy novel. The logbooks that inspired him are in the National Maritime Museum.

The first Royal dockyard was constructed during the reign of King Henry VII, when trade between continents was burgeoning.

When Emma, her husband Sir William Hamilton and her lover Lord Nelson returned to England, she must have seen the adoring crowds awaiting Nelson and the endless social invitations coming her way and thought that her future could be bright. By 1813, though, she would be reduced to living in debtors' prison - a non-person to the many she had showered with lavish hospitality only a short while before.

Arriving in Naples aged just 21, Emma could not have imagined the turn her life would take. She was about to enter a golden period of admiration.

Emma became involved in European politics at a time of great turbulence and conflict following the French Revolution.