Entries from The Caird Library Blog tagged with 'Events'
Archive Journeys in November
Continuing our regular programme of Archive Journey sessions, November begins with Caird's Treasure Chest on Thursday 5th. Sir James Caird was one of the National Maritime Museum's principal early benefactors and his donations helped to form the foundation of the...
Archive Journeys in September
This month visitors to the Museum will have the opportunity to attend a number of Archive Journey sessions. Following the popular Polar Exploration sessions held in July we are holding 3 more events to coincide with the Museum's North West...
Forthcoming Archive Journeys
To coincide with the Museum's North West Passage exhibition members of the Archive team will be holding three Archive Journey sessions in July. We'll be talking about items from our Polar Exploration box and there will be plenty of opportunities...
Serendipity in the Archives
The unexpected discovery always having been a favourite topic of mine, I was excited to see that Archives for London are holding an event tomorrow evening called 'Serendipity in the Archives', that will "look at the role of chance in...
Who do you think you are?
The archive and library at the National Maritime Museum can be an invaluable resource when researching any maritime related family history. If your genealogical tree holds any members from a maritime background, be it the merchant navy, the Royal...
Archive journeys in April
The full list of Archive journeys in April is now available from the events section on the main museum website. Next week is our newest storybox: Pirates! We hope to see you there.Renee (Digital Resources Librarian)...
Flaming Pirates!
This month the E-Library is revealing its first ‘Pirates’ archive journey event, on Thursday 7 February at 2.30pm. This is the latest storybox in a series of many which brings together thematically a wide variety of manuscripts, a rare book,...
Archive Journeys in February
Some of you may have read previous posts here about our Archive Journeys sessions but might be a bit unsure of what they actually are. Well, Archive Journeys are a great way for Museum visitors and Library users to...
'Reaper of Souls' reading in the E Library
As part of the launch of Black History Month recently we had a very special guest reader in the E Library. Beverley East, author and graphologist, read extracts from her new book ‘Reaper of Souls’ followed by a question and...
Family history afternoon this Saturday (15 September)
Are you interested in researching your family history? Perhaps you have some maritime ancestors but don’t know how to find out about them. Come along to the E-Library this Saturday afternoon between 12.00 and 16.00, where we will be holding...
Library blog: a view from the Head of Library and Manuscripts
So, what does this job entail? Well the best bits are working with the world-class collections, and most recently we have been showing them off to school groups in our Understanding Slavery sessions, planning new exhibitions, and deciding how best...
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