The Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage Centre explores the importance & development of maritime safety and classification.
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LRF Heritage & Education Centre retweeted
16 May 2025
New data incoming!
Join us on IMO’s International Day for Women in Maritime as we reveal findings from the IMO-WISTA Survey — exposing the gender gap and sparking action for a more inclusive maritime industry.
Details here: tinyurl.com/2xrj3yb5
#WomenInMaritimeDay
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9 May 2025
📣DEADLINE EXTENDED: UK Maritime Heritage Forum 📣
Papers welcome on the theme of Staying Afloat, caring for and sharing our maritime heritage:
✔️Ships, shipyards and docksides
✔️The Blue Economy
✔️Overcoming Sea Blindness
✔️Dangers to our Maritime Heritage
❗Submit by 23rd May
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LRF Heritage & Education Centre retweeted
1 May 2025
🌊 The ocean connects all the National Maritime Museum's galleries, and from 7 June, when we'll be celebrating World Ocean Day, Ocean Court will be the place for you to explore the ocean itself.
ALT Photo of scaffolding inside the National Maritime Museum
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LRF Heritage & Education Centre retweeted
1 May 2025
🌊For months, Ocean Court, the central area under the glass roof of the National Maritime Museum, has been sealed off because behind the scenes our team has been hard at work, replacing the 25 year old roof and reimagining the spaces beneath it.
ALT Photo of scaffolding looking up through a well in the ceiling of the National Maritime Museum's ground floor
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8 May 2025
To mark #VEDay, @thatSamWright, previous LRF funded PhD scholar, has written about LR and the Second World War, with a particular focus on the Hull staff and their experiences during that conflict, and their VE Day commemorations 🙌🔗 hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/what…
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LRF Heritage & Education Centre retweeted
Check out our most cited articles as of April 2025‼️
Other articles include The Lloyd's Register archive: An appraisal by Martin Wilcox, Peter Phillipson, Sam Wright, Luca Rapisarda, and David J. Starkey
@LRFHEC
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23 Apr 2025
Recipe for Success 👏 "Being authentic in your professional and personal lives is the key to achieving your dreams" Su Yin Anand, Partner, IBM Singapore. Interviewed for #RewritingWomen Read Su Yin Anand story 👉seatrade-maritime.com/crewin…
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23 Apr 2025
Discover the rich maritime heritage of Portsmouth Historic Quarter with a focus on the inspiring women who have shaped its history and be guided through the SHE_SEES exhibition in Boathouse 4.
📆26 April 2025
👟10.30 - 12.00
👟13.00 - 14.30
Book your place 🔗eventbrite.co.uk/e/she-sees-…
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19 Apr 2025
A pair of hand drawn (& very colourful!) maps by the Visitation Committee for their upcoming visits to shipbuilding yards c.1930 #ArchiveTravel 🗺️✏️
@ARAScot #Archive30 @explorearchives @ArchiveHashtag
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18 Apr 2025
REMINDER❗Discover the rich maritime heritage of @PortsmouthHQ, with a focus on the inspiring women who have shaped its history and be guided through the SHE_SEES exhibition in Boathouse 4.
📆26 April 2025
👟10.30 - 12.00
👟13.00 - 14.30
Book your place🔗eventbrite.co.uk/e/she-sees-…
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16 Apr 2025
#Discovered this collection of small stamps for our #SomethingSmall 🤩 Used to update our Register Books #Archive30
@ARAScot @explorearchives @ArchiveHashtag
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14 Apr 2025
Discover the rich maritime heritage of @PortsmouthHQ, with a focus on the inspiring women who have shaped its history and be guided through the SHE_SEES exhibition in Boathouse 4.
📆26 April 2025
👟10.30 - 12.00
👟13.00 - 14.30
Book your place 🔗eventbrite.co.uk/e/she-sees-…
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11 Apr 2025
#HiddenHistories 📸 Women shipbuilders at the Furness Shipbuilding Yard 🧰
Learn more about the @HE_Maritime project on Women shipbuilders in north-east England 🔗youtube.com/watch?v=8POM_M1A…
@ARAScot #Archive30 @explorearchives @ArchiveHashtag
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4 Apr 2025
Read how @UArctic research fellows Claudio Aporta and Anish Hebbar's project will improve our understanding of historical interactions between Inuit and whalers in the Canadian Arctic, and their lessons for maritime safety. 👉ow.ly/sht150VusUJ
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28 Mar 2025
REMINDER: Register now for New Researchers in Maritime History 2025 📣The conference supports emerging scholars to share their work and build relations with other maritime historians!
📆11-12 April
📍Hull History Centre
Register now 👉maritimehistory.org.uk/news/…
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27 Mar 2025
The Surveyors of Lloyd's Register's Past 🌟Corey Watson, PhD student at @UoP_Maritime has written a series on the Surveyor's of LR's past. exploring their life stationed across the world using the records from @lloydsregister archive. 🔗👉hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/what…
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27 Mar 2025
REMINDER Small Grant Scheme is OPEN📣
Offering #grants up to £10,000 GBP for organisations that want to increase public access and engagement with maritime history and/or their collections.
Apply 👉 hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/get-…
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26 Mar 2025
How Can We Protect Our Coastlines From Harmful Human Impact? This threat impacts approximately 2 billion people who live within 100 km of a coastline 😮 Read more 👉👉hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/what…
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24 Mar 2025
Pleased to be working with Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust to identify polluting wreck sites in the Arctic 📣 They aim to identify all marine vessels lost in the Arctic during both the First and Second World Wars – approximately 200 wrecks❗
Read more 👉 thisismast.org/debrief/2025-…
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