Entries from The Caird Library Blog tagged with 'Mike'
Bloggers Preview Two
Thanks to all our guests for generating excellent blog posts and for those who are interested here is a link to one more: http://www.lararuffle.co.uk/london/caird-library-at-royal-museums-greenwich Other links to blogs about the Caird Library event can be found at the bottom of...
Bloggers preview of new Library, Saturday 21 January 2012
The Caird Library held its first bloggers preview event last Saturday. We've been scouring the blogosphere in the last few weeks for bloggers who we thought would like to see what we have in our Library and our archives. We...
September's Item of the Month
September's item of the month showcases two letters from a series of eleven acquired as a set in 1950, dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries and written by crew from the lower deck.Mike (Assistant Archivist)...
Moving Archives - Past and Present
With the current move of the NMM archive and library collections to the new Sammy Ofer Wing complex, here are a few historical tales of how Admiralty records were stored and moved from one building to another in the 19th...
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...
Gerald Alymer Seminar at IHR, Senate House
I recently attended the annual Gerald Alymer (a former President of the Royal Historical Society) Seminar which took place at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Senate House. The speakers included scholars of early records, teachers lecturing in the archive...
The formation of the NMM archive: inside out
The history of how the NMM archive has come into being is fascinating to explore. The first Director of the museum, Sir Geoffrey Callender, and benefactor to the NMM, Sir James Caird, collected key archival material before and after the...
Report of the Society of Archivists' Conference
We recently had the opportunity to attend the Society of Archivists' conference in Manchester. With the title 'We Are What We Keep', the conference was a chance to explore and revisit concepts surrounding how and why records are preserved for...
Symbols from the Archive
The monas hieroglyphica, Dr. John Dee's own personal symbol, appears in an Intelligence Book, kept by the spy William Lytlestone, 1582 (REC/40, a previous item of the month). The esoteric symbol represents the moon, the sun and the elements, visually in...
Billy Ruffian, 'Bravest of the Brave', 1786 - 1836: Her story told from the records at the NMM
HMS Bellerophon, known affectionately by her illiterate crew as Billy Ruffian,endured the Napoleonic and French Revolutionary Wars. She was the first vessel to engage the enemy at the battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794, and was also waiting...
Stuarts Story Box
A new Stuarts storybox became available this year and has been used to support study day sessions at the Queens House. It contains four manuscripts and two rare books, covering the period 1638-1671, which spans the reigns of two Kings and...
Journal kept by Major Kirkham, seaman, on board the Royal George, Providence, San Josef, Castor and Abercrombie, 1798-1809
This richly illustrated journal, containing 58 separate watercolours in total, covers the career of Major Kirkham, seamen in both the royal navy and merchant service (MSS/88/056). Chronologically, he begins his career in 1798; leaving his home in Crayford he boards...
Joseph Conrad: his seafaring career
Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Conrad and we have manuscripts that reveal various aspects of his career. Our Sailor's Home and Red Ensign Club records, prior to 1912 known as the Sailors' Home, include...
My year of cataloguing
The great thing about working with manuscripts at the National Maritime Museum is the various collections that you get to absorb yourself in. Just to illustrate this, I’d like to share with you the collections that I enjoyed last year....
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,...
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