The Sun Frame:White Magnificent photographs highlight the artefacts

Magnificent photographs highlight the artefacts and relics they found along the way

This is a reproduction of one of twelve plates showing the Royal Observatory and its equipment that were produced by Francis Place

comic book and film

The publisher William Darton specialised in publishing maps and books for children

on 31 January

The Sun Frame:White Magnificent photographs highlight the artefactsA coloured cotton wall hanging, showing the sun, with sunspots, and along the bottom the known planets (to Neptune, discovered in 1846), each indicated by the letter with which its name begins. At each corner is a brass eyelet from which to hang the piece. This is one of nine wall hangings now in the National Maritime Museum, all on astronomical themes, which were produced by the Working Men's Educational Union. They were printed lithographically on