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26 Mar 2020
Head of Collections Nick Booth shares some of the more interesting - and unexpected - names found in passenger and...
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14 Oct 2019
Life on board a nineteenth century passenger ship wasn't always easy. Tragedy and misfortune touched the many lives...
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1 Aug 2019
When the SS Great Britain was launched in Bristol on 19 July 1843, she was famously the largest (and fastest) ship in...
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16 Jul 2019
In 2005, the Dockyard Museum opened to the public as a permanent exhibition and has since taken hundreds of thousands...
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9 Jul 2019
L0046.01, on loan from a Private Collector.
You’ve probably heard of her husband; you’ve definitely heard of her son...
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20 Jun 2019
Having submitted Brunel’s handwriting data to the Transkribus team earlier this year, we are now seeing some exciting...
