11 Feb 2019
From sailors to sovereigns: the correspondence of a Greenwich Hospital treasurer
The Caird Library and Archive has hundreds of manuscripts and printed works related to Greenwich Hospital, but only one substantial collection of papers of a naval officer from his time as Treasurer of the Hospital.
03 Oct 2017
Futility: how a novel foreshadowed the sinking of the Titanic
October's Item of the Month looks at a prescient work of fiction from 1898, Morgan Robertson's Futility.
31 Oct 2018
Ghost ships
Delve into several hair-raising tales from our collection
08 May 2018
Grace Darling: A Victorian heroine
Grace Darling, born 1815, was one of the most celebrated figures of the nineteenth century. She lives on in the collections of RMG and in our broader national memory.
15 Aug 2018
Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot and the Navy Board
At the recent Caird Library Open Day it was great to welcome more than 400 people to look at some of the fascinating items we have in the library and archive collections. Two of the items on display were a volume of Navy Board In Letters and Orders and an edition of Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot by Greenville Collins both from the latter part of the 17th Century. We discovered recently that these two items have a very interesting link. 
27 Oct 2022
Halloween on board Cutty Sark
For many of us, Halloween offers a chance to embrace our fascination with fear. But for the crew of Cutty Sark, every day of the year could hold deadly threat...
25 Nov 2025
Henry Clifford, artist and engineer
Despite art being his first love, Henry Clifford went on to play a key role in the pioneering transatlantic cable-laying expeditions of the nineteenth century.