Museum blog

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

Discover what you can see if you look up to the night sky in April 2023.

In this blog we look at some examples of the various and evolving sources of financial aid for the dependants of naval seamen who died in service, from the mid-19th to mid-20th century, using documents found in three small manuscript collections of naval seamen

Discover some of the surprising entries recently discovered in the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital.

Discover the story behind the media sensation Ruth Belville, who brought the correct time from the Royal Observatory to London for almost 50 years.

Discover what you can see if you look up to the night sky in March 2023.

In this blog we look at cartographer John Rocque's An Exact Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, ‘the outstanding plan of the capital in the eighteenth century’