Entries from The Caird Library Blog tagged with 'Martin'
June's Item of the Month
The Glorious 1st June commemorates a naval battle in 1794 otherwise known inconspicuously as the Third Battle of Ushant. Following the outbreak of war with Revolutionary France and spectacular French victories on land, many Britons feared the Revolution would 'jump...
Archive and Library Staff Seminars
June and July will see two seminars given by Archive and Library staff as part of a wider Museum Staff Research Seminar series designed to illustrate the research actually being carried out with the Museum's collections. This is an opportunity...
The Best of all the Sea-Bathing Places
Obviously not a manuscript, definitely not seasonal, but with most of us shivering at freezing conditions and the thought of further blizzards, this image forms both a cheerful distraction and also a connection with the often nautical and always candid...
Naval Ancestors: Who do You think they were?
The last Saturday in September saw a small gathering at The National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Dockyard for the Naval Ancestors: Who Do You Think They Were? workshop. Researchers gathered to broaden their knowledge of Service Records,...
From Greenock to Greenwich: The log of Andrew Service
Image courtesy of Glasgow University Archive Services, ref. UGC182A fascinating online bicentennial exhibition has just been launched at Glasgow University Archive Services. It concerns a log kept by a Glaswegian able seaman Andrew Service. The log offers a rare glimpse into...
Archive and Library team at Navy Days, Portsmouth
Over 25,000 people visited Portsmouth Dockyard for the Navy Days event last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Attractions included 12 ships from the Victory of 1765 to HMS Daring of 2005, not to mention roving bands of eighteenth century sailors and...
The Battle of Quebec
Sunday saw the 250th anniversary of one of the most important battles in modern British history. In the early hours of 13 September 1759, a small British army was hauling itself and its guns up a cliff path. At the...
Royal Navy Medical Officer journals
A few weeks ago I visited The National Archives for their Cataloguing Awareness Day. I was really impressed with the variety of projects underway, from the records of Victorian women prisoners, to 'Bread or Blood', describing political agitation for electoral...
Viscount Exmouth and the recurring marbles
March's item of the month is a series of letters discovered by Martin during his ongoing project to catalogue the collection of Admiral Sir Edward Pellew. Pellew was commander in chief of the Royal Navy ships stationed in the Mediterranean...
Pellew Part 3: The Bombardment of Algiers
Continuing to work through the papers of Viscount Exmouth, Admiral Sir Edward Pellew (1757-1833), I have now reached the period immediately after the Napoleonic wars. But while Europe breathed a collective sigh of relief, the Admiralty had other plans for...
Caledonia off Toulon: Pellew part 2
Having introduced the Pellew manuscript collection in my last post, I thought it would be good to examine some of the gems unearthed so far. The collection spans Pellew’s entire career, though unfortunately there is little before he was...
Under blockade by Pellew
I have recently been busy cataloguing the papers of Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833). Pellew is best remembered for his dramatic captures of French frigates during the Napoleonic wars and the bombardment of Algiers in 1816. A Cornishman...
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