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National Maritime Museum
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17 Jun 2011
On Wednesday 22 June, Archives Assistant Graham Thompson will be exploring the early years of commercial maritime photography with a focus on the Kentish riverside town of Gravesend. As the maritime gateway to London, the Thames was at the time the busiest shipping lane in the world. All kinds of shipping passed up and down this artery of Empire, from tea clippers racing to China in the last days of sail to P&O steamers full of emigrants to all parts of the Empire, from small barges of local produce to the 42,500 ton HMS Thunderer, the last battleship built on the Thames. Between the years 1870-1910 much of this traffic passed by the lens of two generations of commercial shipping photographers, F. C. Gould & Son. With extensive experience of early photography, Graham's talk F. C. Gould & Son, photographers at the Thames Gateway promises literally to be a window on the past.
On Wednesday 13 July, we plunge into the world of Admiralty Record Keeping. How did their Lordships, so fond of seniority and established precedence, grapple with their own records? How did they find anything before the profession of Archivist existed and what was their attitude to Records Management? What did Samuel Pepys have to do with it all? In 1688 and all that: Admiralty Record Keeping since Samuel Pepys, Assistant Archivist Mike Bevan traces what was originally stored in the Pepysian presses now lovingly preserved at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and charts the early attempts to bring order to the mass of Admiralty records to their modern arrangement at The National Archives.
These talks are free and begin at 4pm in the Boardroom, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF.
Places are limited so please ensure you contact the Research Administrator to reserve a place: on 020 8312 6716 or by email: research@nmm.ac.uk
Martin (Manuscripts Cataloguer)