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    Turning our view of the world inside out: introducing the new Ocean Map The National Maritime Museum's Ocean Map reminds us just how much of the Earth is covered by water – and how important the ocean is to our planet
    Pirates: fact or fiction? From buried treasure to walking the plank, how much of what we think we know about pirates is really true?
    A whistle for a life: surviving the Titanic tragedy Meet steward Cecil and passenger Lillian, two young people whose fates intertwined during the sinking of the Titanic
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16 Jan 2025
Night Sky Highlights - February 2025
Discover what to see in February's night sky including a planetary parade, shining Saturn and Venus, and a host of deep sky objects in Orion
01 Jan 2025
Night Sky Highlights - January 2025
Start the year by catching the Red Planet at its brightest, take in the distant Elephant's Trunk Nebula, and view the Quadrantid meteor shower
19 Dec 2024
A universal map in a dead language
This blog takes a look at an almost five-hundred-year-old geographical text in the Caird Library and Archive.
21 Nov 2024
Night Sky Highlights - December 2024
Find out what to see in the night sky this December, including not one, but two meteor showers!
25 Oct 2024
Night sky highlights - November 2024
Find out what to see in the November night sky, including the Orion Nebula, open star clusters and more.
07 Oct 2024
Voyages in ‘search and discoverie of strange coasts, the chiefe subject of this my labour’
Explore the works and legacy of Richard Hakluyt, an Elizabethan compiler and editor of travel writing at the Caird Library and Archive.
04 Oct 2024
The Syren and Shipping Illustrated
The Syren and Shipping Illustrated was a weekly journal for the merchant shipping industry, published 1887-1967.
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