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Have you ever wondered what the Royal Museums Greenwich curators get up to and think? Do you what to find out more about a particular object or how to install an expensive painting – Well, Wednesday September 18th is the perfect day to find out – as the curators take over Twitter.

"Where there's a will, there's a way" - Getting married on board Cutty Sark

As ships go, Cutty Sark is the ultimate survivor. Having faced problems at sea and fire on land, it has become stronger as a result of all the things that didn't quite go according to plan. So, when we were looking for a venue for our rather alternative wedding plans, there really was no other contender.

The legend of Tam O’Shanter

The namesake for clipper ship Cutty Sark is found in Robert Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter.

Robert Hooke and the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire

Siobhán Nicholas explores Hooke's role in rebuilding London after the Great Fire. She researched his life when writing the solo play Hanging Hooke, opening 1 March at the St James Theatre.

Cutty Sark Voyages 1870-1922: Cutty Sark’s maiden voyage to China

Cutty Sark was built for a single purpose - to transport tea from China to London as quickly as possible. She worked in the trade from 1870 to 1877

Life at a Prisoner of War Camp

JOD/332 is a log kept by Captain Stanley Algar while a Prisoner of War at the Milag Nord camp near Bremen. However, the diary is not all it seems, while I was expecting to read Stanley Algar’s story of his capture and the gruelling day to day life in the camp, what it contained was quite different.