The Battle of Trafalgar took place on 21 October 1805. Find out what led up to the British attack on the Franco-Spanish fleet – and how Nelson laid the plans for victory. The Battle of Trafalgar is ...

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is the historic home of British astronomy, Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian of the world. The Royal Observatory was founded by Charles II in 1675, and now ...

2025 marks 350 years since the foundation of the Royal Observatory, the first state-funded, purpose-built scientific institution in Britain. The Royal Observatory was established by Charles II to make ...

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Crew List: Agreements and Official Logs for Ship Ellen Anne, Official Number 53040 (Manuscript) 1915 RSS/CL/1915/3365/42 Crew List: Agreements and Official Logs for Ship Ellen Anne, Official Number ...

The history of water and surface environments on early Mars is encoded in the planet’s sedimentary rocks. The traverses made by the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers offer us remarkable windows into ...

Discover how a rich collection of papers related to a Napoleonic prisoner of war has been made available for anyone to explore at the Caird Library and Archive Cataloguing is crucial to managing ...

12 December marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of Queen Anne of Denmark. A keen patron of the arts, she commissioned architect Inigo Jones to design the Queen's House. Head to the Queen's House ...

Ijoyemi has been part of a project to reimagine the Atlantic Worlds gallery at the National Maritime Museum, a space that explores the unequal, sometimes brutal histories of the Atlantic Ocean. The ...

Through colour and cardboard, a contemporary artwork at the National Maritime Museum shifts perspectives on the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans A large wooden model of a ship sits inside a ...

The museum's manuscript resources for researching impressment and press gangs are listed below under the eight manuscript sections used by the museum and give reference number, brief description and ...

Read the latest issue of our magazine for supporters of Royal Museums Greenwich Guiding Lights is an annual publication for supporters of Royal Museums Greenwich. Created by the Development Team, it ...