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The pirate hunter's cup
What does a carved coconut shell have to do with one of the most deadly pirates in history? Dr Robert Blyth follows the story of Bartholomew Roberts, and the 'forgotten pirate hunter' Captain Chaloner Ogle
The art of piracy: imagining the world of Zheng Yi Sao
A series of illustrations by Livia Giorgina Carpineto brings the world of notorious pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao to life
Night Sky Highlights - April 2025
Discover what to see in the night sky this April, from the Lyrid meteor shower to bright inner planets, and more.
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4. Astronomy and print
A Sea of Symbols
Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)
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Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)
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1 part marked and photographed by Nat, Jan 2018
A group photograph showing bishops at the Lambeth Conference of 1888
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building: unidentified
data processing t&e: telescope component: photographic equipment
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documentary artifact: indenture, apprentice's
documentary artifact: parish register
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documentary artifact: telescope component: plate, photographic
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Studio photograph of a South Asian woman, probably an ayah, with a European child
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass (liquid)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, insulated
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, steering
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water transport: cargo vessel
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water transport: fighting vessel: chapel
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Admiralty Compass Observatory
Autotype Co. Ltd
Collier, John
Dean, Tacita
Dighton, Robert
Eastham, Silas
Fairweather, [John?]
Flett, Peter
Gibson & Sons of Scilly
Harrison, F.
Harrods Ltd
Hart, Alexandra
Hill, Henry Oliver
Lacey
O'Rorke, Brian
Stuart, Michelle
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Thring, E. J.
Toops, Eric
Turner, Charles Edward
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W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd
Wright & Logan
Yera, H
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Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Solebay, 1672
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Bond, R H A
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Royal Greenwich Observatory
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The Combined and Reserve Squadron at Anchor in Portland Roads...August 10 1872 (Photographic reproduction)
Framed photograph of ship drawing (Photographic reproduction)
Portrait of William Huggins (Photographic print)
Framed photographic reproduction (Photographic reproduction)
The Road to Germany (Digital collection object; Map; TIFF digital file)
Framed print of Walter P. Tyser (Photograph)
H.M.S. 'Devastation' 1866 (Photographic reproduction)
The barque 'Glenbervie', aground on Lowland Point, near the Manacles, Lizard, Cornwall (photographic print)
measuring machine, photographic plate
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Dz 2480 (Fl.1929) (Historic photographic negative)
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Framed photographic reproduction of apprentice indenture form (Photographic reproduction)
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