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Collections Storage Assistant, Alex Strachan, provides a behind the scenes look at how the longcase clock collection is stored when not on display.Collections Storage Assistant, Alex Strachan provides a look behind the scenes at how the longcase clock collection is stored when not on display.

Do you ever find yourself wishing that there were more hours in the day? If so, you may be comforted to know that Tuesday, June 30, 2015 will actually be a little longer than normal this year; not by hours, but a single second - a leap second.

George Peacock was a little-known yet indefatigable inventor and naval officer, born in 1805 at Navy House in Exmouth, Devon.

One of the last attempts to seriously portray a known island as a genuinely innocent, if flawed, paradise.

The 'journal of cruise of H.M. Ship Maender' kept by Captain Henry Keppel and beautifully illustrated by Oswald Brierly.

A hand-drawn story book from 1879 containing three stories, 'The Adventures of a Castaway', 'The Adventures of Tom and Jerry' and 'Ye Pirate'.

May 2014 marks the 500th anniversary of the incorporation of Trinity House and May's item of the month describes a pioneering triumph of English lighthouse engineering.