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The Caird Library and Archive has several primary and secondary materials relating to marine artists. One of the highlights of our collection is the illustrated logbooks of Nicholas Pocock (1740-1821).

A slave plantation manager's letters home reveal attitudes towards enslavement and emancipation.

Learn more about Woodall's medical guide for the sea-going surgeon in the Caird Library collection

A brief look at the manuscript collection of Wilhelmine Ganz, a woman born in Berlin a few years before the unification of Germany, but who spent much of her life living in the neighborhoods of Greenwich and Lewisham, and forged a strong connection with the Royal Naval College.

This month we investigate an Archive and Library oversize pamphlet (PBB9342) entitled Freude und Arbeit (Joy and Work) dated 1938, Germany.

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.

The Caird Library and Archive's new display case highlights sickness and healthcare in the Georgian Royal Navy

Find out why centuries-old papers often look so much better than decade-old ones.