Entries from The Caird Library Blog tagged with 'item of the month'
January's Item of the Month
The National Maritime Museum holds in its chart, map and atlas collections a substantial amount of material related to various conflicts through the ages. Amongst these are the charts and plans associated with the late 18th century War of American...
December's Item of the Month
December's Item of the Month features a series of letters written by Susannah Middleton to her sister, Mary Leake. As it's 'that time of year' we've selected three letters, each one written during the Christmas period.Richard (Assistant Archivist)...
November's Item of the Month
It is certainly well known that the National Maritime Museum holds a superb and precious collection of objects, paintings and manuscripts. However, it is not as well known that among the Museum's Library and Manuscript collections are valuable, occasionally priceless,...
October's Item of the Month
October's item of the month is a fascinating insight into life on board a Royal Navy aircraft carrier in the inter-war years. It is a binder containing 35 consecutive issues of Eagle Weekly, a magazine written, printed and sold on...
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)...
August's Item of the Month
Our August Item of the Month celebrates the 145th anniversary of the transatlantic telegraph cable. Join us on a journey through the National Maritime Museum's collections to explore a story that has been long forgotten.Gregory (Library Assistant)...
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...
May's Item of the Month
The National Maritime Museum holds a small percentage of the surviving crew agreements and logbooks of British-registered merchant vessels from 1861 onwards. For May's item of the month, I have selected a crew agreement from the series covering voyages that...
April's Item of the Month
April's item of the month is a volume from the Museum's shipbuilding series of manuscripts (SPB). One would therefore be forgiven for thinking that the manuscript, and indeed the item of the month article, is all about the construction of ships. In...
March's Item of the Month
March's Item of the Month is a little different: .. -. -.. .. .- - ---- -.-. .... .. -. .- (or India to China). To learn more, and to decipher the story of Tom and Gwen, visit the Item...
December's Item of the Month
The panto season is upon us again, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Peter Pan and of course Aladdin with his magic lantern and Genie. The selection for this festive season's Item of the Month are photographs relating to the 1957...
November's Item of the Month: Two Track Charts of the Napoleonic Period
November's item of the month is actually two items of the month! Taken from the Museum's chart and map collections are two very fine manuscript track charts dated 1802 and 1808 respectively. These items provide a fascinating and unexpected glimpse of...
September's item of the month: Candid Considerations
September's item of the month is a book focused on the sugar trade written by the Scottish historian John Campbell and first published in 1763. The work is titled Candid and impartial considerations on the nature of the sugar trade;...
August's item of the month: Keppel's journal
August's item of the month is the 'journal of cruise of H.M. Ship Maender' (HTN/69) kept by Captain Henry Keppel and beautifully illustrated by Oswald Brierly. The journal documents a voyage throughout the southern hemisphere undertaken between 1847 and 1851.If you...
July's item of the month: Pictures of Greenwich Night Pageant, 1933
July's item of the month is a souvenir pamphlet produced in 1933 for the 'Greenwich Night Pageant', arranged by the historian and journalist Arthur Bryant as self-styled 'Pageant Master'. Set against the illuminated background of the (now Old) Royal Naval College,...
Illustrated logbook of Francis Meynell
June's item of the month is a wonderful illustrated logbook written by Francis Meynell. The logbook, containing a number of fine watercolours, details Meynell's experiences during the Crimean War as well a later visit to Sweden.Mike (Assistant Archivist)...
The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage
May's item of the month is a rare English book, "The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage", written by the lesser known explorer William Cornelis Schouten.This very rare English edition is part of the Archive and Library's rare books collection and tells a...
George Perceval boy sailor
One of my favourite additions to the manuscripts collection during my time at the Museum has been the volume of papers relating to George Perceval, who joined the Navy as an 11 year old midshipman in 1805, just in time...
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