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The Mary Rose

New single-step method for conserving waterlogged wooden artefacts

11 Nov 2014

A safer, greener material for conserving waterlogged wooden artefacts, such as those recovered from Henry VIII’s ship Mary Rose, could preserve...

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Dr Lucy Delap

Shipwrecked: women and children first?

20 Jan 2012

Romantic notions of heroism - the captain refusing to leave his sinking ship, women and children being ushered to safety - have been shattered by...

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