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*Closing soon* - 'Women of the RNLI' @RMGreenwich you have till 1 Dec tinctureofmuseum.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/may…
Remembering the 15,000 Merchant Navy sailors who died in WW1 and the 29,000 during WW2. A huge and significant effort to keep Britain supplied and fed as well as also conducting many RN tasks.
News podcast: Heather Currie @menomatters and @BrMenopauseSoc on #HRT; @DrPJMoore on @moderna_tx #norovirus #vaccine trial; Ed Bloomer @ROGAstronomers on black holes; @AlMittnik @MPI_EVA_Leipzig on #Pompeii; and @RFitzgerald_lab @Cambridge_Uni on cancer. thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked…
Worked on a film about this for @HistoryHit, and good to see a fellow Calgarian @aisling_macken doing some great work at the Maritime Museum. theguardian.com/culture/2024/o…
The extraordinary story of Charles Hare. The tiniest of footnotes in history, now a glorious human drama.
Today marks the 296th birthday of James Cook (1728–1779), one of history's greatest navigators and explorers! Who was Cook, and what were his most remarkable achievements? Let’s dive into history together! (1/10)
My latest article is on page 11 of The Observer tomorrow
The real joy of having an early riser is, following the clocks going back, my days will be starting at 4.30 for a while. It’s basically the gift of time. 😭 I might become an advocate of staying on GMT all year round.
New 3D scans reveal stunning details of Shackleton's doomed Endurance expedition to Antarctica trib.al/F8mVHKB
The Enormous Scale of the flag flown on the Spanish ship, the San Ildefonso, during the Battle of Trafalgar. It was captured by the Royal Navy on 21st October 1805 and measures nearly 33 feet wide and 47.5 feet long. #OTD
This is an amazing story & the fact the uniform has survived is remarkable. I did some research on RN POWs during the Napoleonic wars & the courage & determination of these young men was incredible. A significant majority of escapees were midshipmen, like Charles Hare.
This #TrafalgarDay, discover a remarkable prison break story from the Napoleonic Wars. In 1809, Royal Navy midshipman Charles Hare used this French customs officer’s uniform as a disguise to effect his escape. See it at the National Maritime Museum: rmg.co.uk/charleshare
I love this thread. Growing up, I wasn’t allowed in the kitchen. When I begged my dad to teach me how to cook, he made me sit on a chair in the corner. The first time I tried to fry an egg I didn’t know to use oil and he laughed at me.
Growing up we were not allowed to even touch the washing machine. One day, when I was in HS, mom decided to just stop washing our sheets and we had to—only she never told us. She then got mad we weren’t washing our sheets, which clued us into us needing to. So I asked (cont)
The Scilly Naval Disaster was an absolute tragedy & did eventually lead to the Longitude Act of 1714, which offered a reward of £20k to the 1st person to discover 'a reliable means of determining longitude' This didn't happen until 1773 - John Harrison & his marine chronometer
22 October 1707. 4 Royal Navy ships ran aground near the Isles of Scilly, with 1,550 sailors drowned, in one of worst British maritime disasters. It was due to ships navigators inability to calculate their positions, errors in the available map charts and inadequate compasses.
My heart is racing listening to the @HistoryHit podcast about the daring escape of nineteen year old Charles Hare from a Napoleonic prisoner of war camp. It’s such an astonishing story. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dan…
A 19 yr old British naval officer made a daring escape through the heart of Napoleon’s empire in 1809. His story was absolutely unknown….Until his descendants handed heirlooms in the attic to @RMGreenwich Here’s the full story for the first time 🎧: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hist…
He also left behind this wonderful account. Written for his young son. Here he describes how he took a dog with him as a distraction. When he was in danger of being discovered by ‘inquisitive people’ asking ‘unpleasant questions’ he just focussed on the dog & they left him alone
He escaped across W Europe wearing this uniform of the French Customs Service. Which his descendants then stored in an attic in Canada for 200 years. The story known only to them.
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