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Press Release HMS Victory 21st Century Museum Story Napoleonic Ships and Aircraft

HMS Victory invites visitors inside bold new phase of £42m conservation project

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Blog HMS Victory 21st Century Napoleonic Ships and Aircraft

Chatterboxes – Connection and Conversations with HMS Victory

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Jane Austen and the Royal Navy

A mother and two children sit outside HMS Victory, a wooden ship.

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Blog Technology & Engineering Navy Origins Innovation and Exploration

Fiction meets Innovation: Jules Verne’s underwater dream versus early Submarine design

No one person can be credited with inventing the submarine. Early inventors had the task of understanding the physical properties of the ocean and…

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Blog Women in the Navy Navy Origins Naval Lives

‘Free a man for the fleet!’ - Stories of inspiring Wrens

The Women’s Royal Naval Service, also known as WRNS, was a special branch of the Royal Navy formed initially to help ‘free a man for the fleet!’…

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Press Release Communities Navy Origins Naval Lives

Mutual support for museums in Addressing Empire

A recent comment piece for Museums Journal is already attracting new members to a network co-founded by the National Museum of the Royal Navy.

‘Appreciating the Situation’ on display, one of the key objects looked at by Chat Over Chai Credit NMRN
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Cross-service Diwali celebrations bring colour and light to a grey November

Celebrate Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, and find out more about the shared maritime heritage of Indian and Hindu communities with the Royal…

Nikhil Ahluwalia alongside Appreciating the Situation before its conservation
Press Release Communities Navy Origins Naval Lives

As seen on BBC South Today, historic painting unveiled at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

As part of the over two million objects in the collection of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the painting ‘Appreciating the Situation’ may…

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Press Release Stage and Screen Navy Origins Culture, Sport and Leisure

Ahoy Me Hearties! The Horrible Histories® Pirates Are Coming to Haaaahrtlepool!

Popular family exhibition Horrible Histories® exhibition to open at National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool.

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International Women's Day 2022

For centuries women were written out of history in favour of male explorers, valiant fighters and educated thinkers. There remain many gaps between…