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The Society for Nautical Research is the world’s oldest society dedicated to the study and preservation of maritime heritage. It publishes The Mariner’s Mirror, the world’s leading journal of naval and maritime history.

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This month’s featured article looks back to London in August 1821 and the Cooper’s strike that took place at the West India Dock.

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Historic Ships

The Society for Nautical Research played a leading role in the preservation of HMS Victory and other historic vessels.

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Joseph Banks Lecture Series at the National Maritime Museum

August 2017

This lecture series aims to bring Joseph Banks to wider public understanding, in advance of the 250th anniversary of the Endeavour voyage in 1768 and the 200th anniversary of Banks’s death in 1820. In a career spanning more than fifty years, Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) became one of the most influential figures in European science. […] Read More

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Maritime Art

The Society for Nautical Research helps to purchase important works of art.