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On 23 August Steve Martin will join us to mark International Slavery Remembrance Day. He talks to us about his Greenwich Tour, Black Sailors and Scribes, looking at the lives of African sailors and their impact on Greenwich.

Craig Hollander, from The College of New Jersey, asks how should we commemorate International Slavery Remembrance Day on 23 August.

The Clove Hitch had been known by many names, such as 'Waterman's knot', before being officially coined the 'Clove Hitch' in 1769.

Ahead of International Slavery Remembrance Day Nicola Pomery, Family and Community Programmes Manager at the British Library, talks about their West Africa Community Project.

Need a little help getting the hang of Rio's layout? Pieter van der Merwe comes to the rescue with a beautiful 19th-century panorama and chart of the area.

The 'King of the Knots' is a Loop which made its first appearance during the 'Age of Sail' in 1627, labelled in the book 'Seaman's Grammar' as the 'Boling knot'. It is also believed to date back to Ancient Egypt! During an excavation of the Giza Pyramid Complex in 1954, a similar knot was discovered on the rigging of a Solar Ship belonging to Pharaoh Khufu.

If you wish to look up 'transport by sea' in any library or archives you will get passenger lists, cruise ships (most of which will all focus on the Titanic); and in the case of the Caird Library and Archives, a tea clipper called Cutty Sark.

On International Cat Day (yes it is a thing!), we celebrate the epic story of Trim the Cat and Matthew Flinders - the first man to circumnavigate Australia.

The most common Stopper knot of choice for sailors, and the simplest in our knot line-up, is the Figure of Eight.