New Assistant Archivist

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Essential Information

Location	National Maritime Museum

17 Feb 2009

After a hectic, not to mention snowy, start to my new job I've finally found a moment to introduce myself to readers of the blog. I'm Richard Wragg and I have recently taken up the position of Assistant Archivist. Before coming to the National Maritime Museum I worked at London Metropolitan Archives and, more recently, the Archives and Chapter Library of St George's Chapel in Windsor.

One of the items that most interested me in the collection at Windsor was an image of a medieval ship and it was perhaps fitting that one of the first boxes I opened at the NMM contained a notebook full of sketches of Windsor Castle. Although we're all working hard as we move towards the opening of the Sammy Ofer Wing in 2012 I'm looking forward to many more unexpected finds amongst the fascinating manuscript collections.

Richard (Assistant Archivist)