The threat to the Crown from Catholic forces continued to grow for Queen Elizabeth I during the 1580s. Catholic Europe was outraged by the regicide of a Catholic monarch and Mary's execution played ...

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Join us for The Sky Tonight, a live planetarium show presented by an astronomer from Royal Observatory Greenwich. Explore the night sky as it will be on the day of your visit and learn about some ...

All Royal Museums Greenwich sites will be closing early at 3.30pm on Wednesday 16 October. We apologise for any inconvenience. We recommend booking tickets to the Royal Observatory online in advance ...

Oliver Cromwell was best known for being Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland after the defeat of King Charles I in the Civil War. He was one of the main signatories on ...

Crew agreements for British-registered merchant ships, crew lists or muster-rolls and official ships' logs are of particular interest to genealogists and people tracing family history, and to anyone ...

Why are there 12 months in the year? Julius Caesar's astronomers explained the need for 12 months in a year and the addition of a leap year to synchronize with the seasons. At the time, there were ...

Who was Sir Francis Drake? Discover the life of the Tudor sailor and privateer Francis Drake became the first European to sail and explore much of the Americas. However, Drake didn't 'discover' these ...

Sergio Díaz Ruiz uses satellite imagery to explore climate change by creating an image of Earth as it might be analysed by a ...

The autumnal equinox occurs in September each year, and in the northern hemisphere the date marks the end of summer and beginning of autumn. The Earth is tilted on its axis. This means that the Sun ...

Visit the home of Greenwich Mean Time, stand on the world-famous Prime Meridian Line and come to London's only Planetarium We recommend booking tickets to the Royal Observatory online in advance to ...

The unimaginably large Sun is just one of 200,000,000,000 stars that make up our Galaxy (itself one of many). Unfortunately those of us who live in the northern hemisphere cannot see the two closest ...