Entries from The Caird Library Blog tagged with 'Navy'
Navy Day at Gosport Discovery Centre
We thought that Caird Library readers would be interested in an event at Gosport Discovery Centre on 9 June. The Navy Day will include a workshop on interpreting naval photographs and a video presentation of the Royal Navy in films....
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Posted by Eleanor on May 17, 2011 4:56 PM
Meet your navy at HM Naval Base, Portsmouth
We are pleased to be joining Jenny Wraight, the Admiralty Librarian at Naval Historical Branch, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, together with colleagues from the Imperial War Museum and Hampshire Libraries, at the forthcoming Meet Your Navy event, being held from...
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Posted by Eleanor on July 19, 2010 4:22 PM
John Parr's letters
October's item of the month is a series of letters written by John Parr, an ordinary 'Jack Tar' who served in the navy in the early 19th century. Much like the letters of Susannah Middleton, they offer an insight an...
Posted by Renee on October 1, 2007 9:05 PM
Ship's biscuit recipe
Ship's biscuits or hard tack was a vital part of a seaman's diet in the years before the introduction of canned food in the mid-nineteenth century. Try the ship biscuit diet for yourself by following our recipe! Ingredients 1lb wholemeal...
Posted by Tanya on August 24, 2007 10:33 AM
The Susannah Middleton collection
I have recently completed a project to catalogue the Susannah Middleton collection. The collection is made up of 55 neatly-written letters sent by Susannah Middleton to her sister Miss Marion Leake, during her residency at Gibraltar from 1805 to 1808....
Posted by Kate on August 21, 2007 10:11 AM
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