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Natural History Museum Curator, James Maclaine, will be joining us to discuss the weird and wonderful sex-lives of aquatic creatures. We speak to him ahead of the event and learn that strange things do indeed happen at sea.

Library Manager, Gareth Bellis, takes some culinary inspiration from our archives. Who fancies some "Dandy Funk"?

As the Queen's House refurbishment continues, we've started planning the displays. Our Curator of Decorative Arts, Sue Prichard, tells us more.

When Cutty Sark was moored in Greenhithe alongside HMS Worcester as part of the Thames Nautical Training College, she regularly featured in the cadet magazine published by the college, The Dogwatch.

Cutty Sark has provided the inspiration for poetry across the globe. Today we look at 'Cutty Sark' by well-known New Zealand poet Kendrick Smithyman.

Two charts from the National Maritime Museum's chart and map collections.

An early kind of glossy magazine, the Navy and Army Illustrated was a subtler means of recruitment for the Army and Navy

As many naval fiction buffs will know, the 2003 film Master and Commander is based on the Patrick O'Brian novel The Far Side of the World. Both novel and film are based on events which occurred 200 years ago this March, during the War of 1812 between Britain and the young United States of America.

June's item of the month is a modern pamphlet that focuses on the First World War.

Henry George Kendall is not a household name today, but there was a time when, as Master of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company's SS Montrose, he played a central role in a major news story. It was Kendall who proved instrumental in capturing a wanted man and his mistress, making criminological history in the process. The tale is one of murder, romance, an international manhunt and a ship equipped with the latest 'wireless' technology.