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From maid to muse, pauper to politician, Emma Hamilton transcended barriers and transformed her story from an ordinary one into an extraordinary one.

Arriving in Naples aged just 21, Emma could not have imagined the turn her life would take. She was about to enter a golden period of admiration.

When Emma, her husband Sir William Hamilton and her lover Lord Nelson returned to England, she must have seen the adoring crowds awaiting Nelson and the endless social invitations coming her way and thought that her future could be bright. By 1813, though, she would be reduced to living in debtors' prison - a non-person to the many she had showered with lavish hospitality only a short while before.

Discover the story of the founding of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, Britain's first state-funded scientific research institution.

Ship's biscuits or hard tack was a vital part of a seaman's diet in the years before the introduction of canned food in the mid-nineteenth century. Try the ship biscuit diet for yourself by following our recipe!

The world's greatest maritime archive is full of fascinating objects with amazing stories to tell. Today we're looking at a book that was taken by the Bounty Mutineers in 1789. 

Curator Kristian Martin on Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London – and how to bury your parmesan cheese...