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Turner---Joshua Reynolds---Thomas Gainsborough---Willem van de Velde (Elder & Younger)---William Hodges---William Hogarth-Around the world--Africa--Antarctica--Arctic--Asia---India---China--Australia--Caribbean--Europe---Spain--London & Greenwich---Greenwich walking tours---The Thames---Greenwich--North America--South America Location - Any -Cutty SarkNational Maritime MuseumQueen's HouseRoyal ObservatoryPrince Philip Maritime Collections CentreIn GreenwichOnlineOther Specialism - Any -AstronomyConservationCuratorialEvents & VenuesHMS NHS: The Nautical Health ServiceLibrary & ArchiveVolunteers Search keywords 18 Aug 2016 Voyages of the Sea On 22 September Ensemble Perpetuo and Royal Museums Greenwich will be bringing an evening of music and photography to the Dry Berth of Cutty Sark. We spoke to Ensemble Perpetuo’s founder James Turnbull, who shared some of the great reasons not to miss this unique occasion with us. 17 Aug 2016 Pilot’s logbooks of a First World War Flying Ace As our ultimate flight exhibition, Above and Beyond, comes to an end we explore the logbook of Captain Albert James Enstone - a pilot with the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War. The logbook records each of his flights and provides an insight into the dangers he faced everyday. 17 Aug 2016 The British Library and International Slavery Remembrance Day Ahead of International Slavery Remembrance Day Nicola Pomery, Family and Community Programmes Manager at the British Library, talks about their West Africa Community Project. 15 Aug 2016 Rio before the Olympics 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. 08 Aug 2016 Containerisation from OCL to P&O Nedlloyd 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. 08 Aug 2016 Know your Knots (3) – The Bowline 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. 08 Aug 2016 Trim the Cat 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. 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