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In July 1988, the National Maritime Museum purchased the papers of William Schaw Lindsay. Comprising an extensive collection of journals, diaries, newspaper cuttings and correspondence, it covers the period throughout his life and relates mostly to matters nautical. The Caird Library is grateful for this guest-authored piece, written by Lindsay's great-great-grandson, William Stewart Lindsay, who is researching his illustrious forebear.

Reflecting on the new blockbuster Black Panther, Sacha Coward explores the film's relevance to the National Maritime Museum, a museum whose collections and themes are closely tied to the British Empire.

Boteler was appointed Second Lieutenant of the Leven under Captain William Fitz-William Owen, and later First Lieutenant of the Barracouta. During a long surveying voyage between 1821 and 1826 to map parts of the coast of Africa which hadn't been surveyed since the first wave of Portuguese explorers 300 years earlier, Boteler wrote a personal account of what he saw, and created many detailed and interesting drawings. This blog aims to show some of the highlights from this collection of drawings, which I had the pleasure of cataloguing last year alongside a manuscript copy of the account.

Looking back 100 years into the creation of the Royal Air Force through the words of the pilots.