Library & Archive 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

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

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’

For LGBTQ+ History Month we go in search of some of the hidden histories within the Caird Library and Archive collections

This blog looks at two very different accounts of a Christmas meal - that of a Scottish man emigrating to Australia in 1879 and of a young Admiral, Sir George James Perceval, 6th Earl of Egmont, in 1806

The Caird Library & Archive’s new display case highlights first-hand accounts of women’s experiences and contributions to the nineteenth-century Royal Navy

This Caird Library & Archive blog looks at the occupation and brief naval career of Diamond Rock, one of the Royal Navy’s first stone frigates