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The Queen's House Ice Rink
Discover the most beautiful outdoor ice skating location in London
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Learn to Photograph Water: Reflections, Splashes & Waves
Join SharpShots Photo Club to discover how to photography water.
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Seafarers Hospital Society – 200 years of pioneering care for seafarers’ wellbeing and mental health
Seafaring has always been a physically and mentally demanding role. To mark Day of the Seafarer we have invited the Seafarers Hospital Society to share about their role in promoting seafarer welfare during the last 200 years.
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Workhouse woe and boys saved from blindness: stories from HMS NHS: the Nautical Health Service
Discover just some of the stories recently discovered in the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital.
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Sailors, golfers and canaries: peculiar entries from the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital registers
Discover some of the surprising entries recently discovered in the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital.
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A window into 19th century healthcare: stories from the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital registers
From grim workhouses to 'the salutary influence' of the Bath Mineral Water Hospital, learn about 19th century health and hospitals through the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital.
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Shipwreck survivors and caisson sickness: stories from the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital Registers
Discover some of the surprising entries recently discovered in the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital.
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A curious kind of button, more wartime casualties and miscreants in the neighbourhood
Discover some of the surprising entries recently discovered in the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital.
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Day of the Seafarer: Delivering our Food
Without seafarers, what we eat might look very different. In this workshop, children will have the opportunity to match food with its country of origin and understand why we can’t grow all our favourite foods in the UK.
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A lesser-known Melville, below decks on the Dreadnought in 1851 and a Guernsey-born seafarer
Discover some of the surprising entries recently discovered in the medical records of the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital.