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As part of the Hull Maritime project you will hear from the team and volunteers, in their words offering insight, knowledge and experience.

BLOG: A grand day out

Volunteer, Alison Keld tells us more about her visit to Alexandra Dock to see the Arctic Corsair...

BLOG | Stables, steps, and stairs. Inside the Dock Office Chambers Building

Julie Corbett, a volunteer for the Hull Maritime project was given the opportunity to see Dock...

BLOG | Hull’s fishing heritage: an amazing history topic!

To celebrate the launch of our new On Board the Arctic Corsair Virtual Workshop, which is available...

BLOG | On Board the Arctic Corsair: behind-the-scenes of our new virtual workshop!

6 September 2021 Charlie Trzeciak, our Community and Schools Learning Officer tells us more about...

BLOG | A better city by volunteer

Monday 6 September 2021 By Maritime Media Volunteer, Julie Corbett.

BLOG| The Tragic Tale of Airship R38

Maritime media volunteer Alison researched our collections to write this blog marking 100 years...

BLOG | A River Hull landmark

14 July 2021, Alison Keld volunteers for the project and she talks about a River Hull landmark.

BLOG | Inner sanctums of the Hull Maritime Museum

9 July 2021, Volunteer, Ray Stephens had the opportunity to visit the museum during the object...

BLOG | Nova’s digital and creative skills project with Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City off to superb start

Nova’s digital and creative skills project in collaboration with Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City is...

BLOG | My Maritime Museum visit

University of Hull History Network student, Ellie Hayes had the opportunity to visit the Hull...

BLOG | A museum in transition

Wednesday 23 June Maritime Media Volunteer, Emily Peach visited the Maritime Museum as the museum's...

BLOG | What’s in a (street) name?

Monday 21 June Janet Adamson, Maritime Media Volunteer explores how street names are chosen and...

BLOG | A Closer Look: Inuit Artefacts Outside the Glass Case

Monday 21 June Maritime Media Volunteer, Ben Lanham visited the museum as objects were being...

BLOG | Fleeting glances

Friday 4 June 2021 Julie Corbett, a Media Maritime Volunteer for the project visited the Hull...

BLOG | My experience volunteering for Hull's Maritime Museum

Thursday 3 June 2021Dane Mellows, second year student studying History at the University of Hull...

BLOG | Common Ground

Wednesday 2 June 2021 Holly Walton, our Community Engagement Officer visited St. John the Baptist...

BLOG | Time Ball to rise and fall again! A postscript

Thursday 20 May By Maritime Media Volunteer, Don Knibb.

BLOG | Time Ball to rise (and fall) again

25 April 2021 Don Knibb, Maritime Media Volunteer tells us more about John Harrison - a carpenter...

BLOG | Behind the scenes with our museum team and discover what it takes to prepare to move 50,000 objects

At the Hull Maritime Museum, a small team of colleagues are working hard to study, record, digitise,...

BLOG | Celebrating 200 years of the Sailor’s Children’s Society

19 April 2021, Celebrating 200 years of The Sailor’s Children’s Society by Maritime Media Volunteer...

BLOG | The Officer and the Gentleman – Two Titanic survivors from Hull

15 April 2021 On 15 April 1912, the RMS Titanic sank. Alison Keld, a Maritime Media Volunteer for...

BLOG | The Guildhalls of Hull

Tuesday 13 April 2021 Maritime Media Volunteer, Ben Lanham delves into the history of The Guildhall...

BLOG | Queen's Gardens and Change

Thursday 8 April 2021 Maritime Media Volunteer, Janet Bark reflects on change, the past and present...

BLOG | Looking up

Friday 26 March 2021 Maritime Media Volunteer, Julie Corbett tells us more about the Guildhall and...

BLOG | Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder?

Monday 29 March 2021 By Maritime Media Volunteer, Janet Adamson

BLOG | The iconic Hull Maritime Museum building and what it means to some of our volunteers

Thursday 18 March 2021 In this blog Maritime Media volunteers write about the iconic Maritime...

BLOG | The people's park with maritime links

18 March 2021 Maritime Media Volunteer, Alison Keld tells us more about why Pearson Park has a...

BLOG | Steam Trawler Diana – a piece of Hull's maritime history

8 March 2021 Olwen Evans-Knibb, is a Maritime Media Volunteer for the project and she tells us more...

BLOG | Maritime heritage is a treasure

4 March 2021 Welcome to a journey of exploration through Hull’s maritime heritage by Esraa...

BLOG | Hull's maritime landmarks

2 March 2021 Back in October we asked our Maritime Media volunteers to take or select their own...

BLOG | 1425 and all that

2 March 2021 Maritime Media Volunteer Don Knibb looks back to 1425 when two major events took place...

BLOG | Fashion and the whale - How many whalebones does it take to make a corset?

Monday 22 February 2021 Maritime Media Volunteer, Alison Keld tells us more about how parts of...

BLOG | Refurbishment of Queen’s Gardens and the Sea of Hull

16 February 2021 Maritime Media Volunteer, Julie Corbett looks to the future of Queen's Gardens and...

BLOG | Moving the Truelove flag

This blog is by Maritime volunteer and University of Hull student, Jason Kin Lok.

BLOG | An extraordinary TrueLove story

Maritime Media Volunteer, Don Knibb captured the TrueLove flag being removed from the wall in the...

BLOG | 'Until yesterday I knew nothing of its existence, but felt inspired'

Wednesday 3 February 2021 Maritime Media Volunteer, Alison Keld spotted some striking riverside...

BLOG | Painting of the FV GAUL and its tragic story

Wednesday 3 February 2021 Ray Stephens, a Maritime Media Volunteer for the project takes a deeper...

BLOG | Remembering in a landscape

Monday 1 February 2021 Julie Corbett, Maritime Media Volunteer reflects on the Triple Trawler...

BLOG | What do we know about this ship with no masts? HMS Hector

Wednesday 27 January 2021 Janet Adamson, a Maritime Media Volunteer for the project wanted to find...

BLOG | Hull's role in the wine import trade

26 January 2021What do we know about Hull's role in the wine import trade? Maritime Media Volunteer,...

BLOG | RETURNING TO HULL: YORKSHIRE’S MARITIME CITY

Hi, I’m Andy Ede, and just a couple of weeks ago I started in the role of Project Assistant for the...

BLOG | The Old Hull Pier painting

Maritime Media Volunteer, Ray Stephens visited the museum and talks about a particular painting that...

BLOG | "It has been an absolute joy being able to return to the Maritime Museum."

Maritime Media Volunteer, Aaron Baldwin shares his account of the removal of maritime paintings from...

BLOG | Who was R. D. Widdas?

Last week, the Diana painting, by Richard Widdas was packed away and taken to a studio for...

BLOG | "I definitely held my breath as it was lifted off the wall"

Maritime Media Volunteer, Janet Bark had the opportunity to capture a number of maritime paintings...