Comments on: Friday Photo Blogging – the Royal Naval Museum Library

By: Jonathan M

Jonathan M — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:39:42 +0000

I used to know a bloke who worked for Janes’. A man of little imagination or wit who spontaneously changed PhD’s on September 12 2001 in order to make his thesis topic more “trendy” (his words).

By: Martin McGrath

Martin McGrath — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:42:49 +0000

That is a genuinely cool place to work.
I’d spend all day with Janes, I love my Fighting Ships…

By: Paul Raven

Paul Raven — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:37:47 +0000

But I *am* from outside London, Farah!

The RNML is in Portsmouth Dockyard, and we certainly have the facilities to welcome visitors – though, due to being located within the naval base, you’ll need to make an appointment ahead of time and bring some photographic ID with you as well. Just get in touch if you want to come by some time.

And if you want archives, we got ‘em; London Gazette and the Times running back to about 1800, for example, plus innumerable personal papers and documents from the lowliest seamen to the loftiest admirals! Go take a look at the website – you can search the manuscript archive on there if you have a particular interest in mind.

By: farah

farah — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:25:30 +0000

You work at the naval museum library? Do you have a place you can entertain interested historians? Why didn’t you say you worked there? I thought you were from somewhere outside London, instead of which you are in the kind of place us archive historians salivate over.