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Portsmouth Historic Dockyard wins five 2025 Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards
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Royal Air Force and Royal Marines heritage awarded £13.7m National Lottery funding

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A mother and two children look at a scaffolding tent covering a ship that reads 'Victory Live: The Big Repair'.
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Celebrating Dr Cathryn Harvey: The National Museum of the Royal Navy’s First Doctoral Graduate

We are delighted to congratulate Cathryn Harvey of Cranfield University on successfully passing her Doctoral viva. Cathryn will very soon be the…
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Commemorating Operation Roast and Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter VC

80 years ago today 43 Commando Royal Marines took part in Operation Roast – the Battle of Lake Comacchio in Italy during the Second World War. One of…
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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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Commemorating World AIDS Day

In 1981, the first five cases of a rare lung infection were detected in five young, previously healthy gay men in L.A. It would go on to mark the…