21 Sep 2022
Joy and Work: the fate of the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff
This month we investigate an Archive and Library oversize pamphlet (PBB9342) entitled Freude und Arbeit (Joy and Work) dated 1938, Germany.
11 Sep 2022
Cookery for Seamen: a pocket-size cookbook for seamen
In this blog we highlight a little cookery book which provides a glimpse into the types of meals eaten at sea in the last years of Queen Victoria's reign and which also reflects the change in status of ships' cooks.
22 Aug 2022
Charles Todd and Australia's Overland Telegraph Line
In this blog we explore the remarkable life of Charles Todd, a Greenwich astronomer who championed Australia's Overland Telegraph Line
08 Aug 2022
Sailors, golfers and canaries: peculiar entries from the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital registers
Discover some of the surprising entries recently discovered in the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital.
08 Aug 2022
Lascars and British merchant shipping
For our latest Caird Library and Archive display case we highlight the lives of lascars serving on board British ships, as well as their often precarious situation in Britain.
02 Aug 2022
The log of the prize Pugliese 1809-1810
This blog looks at an illustrated log recently added to the collection of papers from the naval career of Admiral Sir Watkin Owen Pell. It reveals how a prize crew was shipwrecked and captured on the enemy’s coast during the Napoleonic Wars.
18 Jul 2022
A closer look at the Thames lightermen and watermen
In this blog we look at the larger-than-life characters who carried people and goods on London’s river in centuries gone by.