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Alfred Withers' diary covers his voyage with Margaret his bride, on the James Baines from Liverpool to Melbourne, Australia in 1857.

Curator Andrew Choong explores the glory days and decline of Thames shipbuilding and invites you to discover more in our foreshore walks.

What does fashion have to do with all those pestilential plights, and what indeed to do with Samuel Pepys? Well, quite a lot really - the diarist was a wry observer of what went on in the 1660s, and what was worn (and by whom) did not escape his gaze.

'Aurora Australis' was the "first book ever written, printed, illustrated and bound in the Antarctic".

Our Paper Conservator, Rosie-Faye Hart, has been busy conserving a map of Africa that's over 450 years old.

Our next item of the month is the Isolario of Bartolomeo 'Dalli Sonetti'.

Our Item of the Month features printed charts and views of the Battle of Bunker Hill, from the chart and map collections.

Our item of the month looks at one of the most fascinating collections in the NMM Manuscript archives: portolan charts. Consisting of fifty-eight manuscript atlases and around fifty larger charts, the collection spans three centuries of navigational practice before mass-produced printed charts displaced them during the eighteenth century.