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		<title>Did the Longitude Act speed up the solution to the longitude problem?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/05/20/did-the-longitude-act-speed-up-the-solution-to-the-longitude-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/05/20/did-the-longitude-act-speed-up-the-solution-to-the-longitude-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Higgitt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curious & interesting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History, 18th-century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["John Harrison"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Longitude Act"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Tobias Mayer"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Board of Longitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Challenge Prizes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Counter-factual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ferdinand Berthoud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Hadley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pierre Le Roy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/?p=1892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently did a brief talk for some of the staff at Nesta, including their Centre for Challenge Prizes, on our project and  outcomes of our research. During the discussion, someone asked what is, particularly for them, a very pertinent question: “Did the Longitude Act speed up the arrival of a solution?”. My answer was something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Dutch</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/05/07/going-dutch/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/05/07/going-dutch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 19:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dunn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History, pre-18th century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Longitude tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Objects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["magnetic variation"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christiaan Huygens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marine timekeepers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[René Descartes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VOC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/?p=1848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I spent a pleasant couple of days in the Netherlands, taking in Amsterdam, Leiden and The Hague, mainly looking at items we hope to borrow for the exhibition we are planning for next year. The Netherlands is an obvious place to go, of course, since it has such an extraordinarily rich maritime history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#CamPhDcasts</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/05/02/camphdcasts/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/05/02/camphdcasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 11:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History, 18th-century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press & media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CamPhDcasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRASSH]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/?p=1832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of months, I&#8217;ve been incredibly lucky and honoured to be involved in a series of video casts showcasing PhD research, produced by fellow students John Gallagher and Richard Blakemore in partnership with Ruth Rushworth at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities). The first season features 6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using longitude: thinking about history and policy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/05/02/using-longitude-thinking-about-history-and-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/05/02/using-longitude-thinking-about-history-and-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 10:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Higgitt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press & media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Isaac Newton"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Challenge Prizes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rewards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science prizes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientific advice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/?p=1835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been moonlighting somewhat, and taking my blogging focus to The H Word at the Guardian. I have not, though, been neglecting longitude but have, rather, been finding that it can be relevant to today&#8217;s discussions. Way back last October, when the Nobel Prizes were in the news, I put up a post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t have to be mad to work here, but it helps</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/29/you-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-work-here-but-it-helps/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/29/you-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-work-here-but-it-helps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curious & interesting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History, 18th-century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press & media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harrison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucy Worsley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/?p=1821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lucy Worsley, head curator at Historic Royal Palaces, has just finished presenting a series on BBC 1 called &#8216;Fit to Rule.&#8217; In this she is considering the medical strengths and weaknesses of the British royal families as intrinsic to the success or failure of their reigns. The various royal palaces provide a lively backdrop for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rediscovering Drake&#8217;s Island</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/22/rediscovering-drakes-island/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/22/rediscovering-drakes-island/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dunn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History, 18th-century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Objects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["James Cook"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Larcum Kendall"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Nevil Maskelyne"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francis Drake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Arnold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Bayly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Wales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/?p=1595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the nice things about working in a museum with huge collections is that from time to time you come across things you didn&#8217;t even know you were looking for. This happened to me the other day when I unexpectedly came across a 1773 painting of Drakes Island, Plymouth, of which this is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navigation and technology in the dock at the Old Bailey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/15/navigation-and-technology-in-the-dock-at-the-old-bailey/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/15/navigation-and-technology-in-the-dock-at-the-old-bailey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History, 18th-century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History, 19th-century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History, pre-18th century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Dead reckoning"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Old Bailey"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[court cases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Nairne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Troughton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instrument makers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Ramsden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timekeeping]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/?p=1775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend was the tenth anniversary of the superb online resource The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913, which has provided many early modern historians with vital clues and contextual flavour for their research. It has been an invaluable resource for my own study of longitude and navigation during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perks of Digitizing the Archive</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/04/the-perks-of-digitizing-the-archive/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/04/the-perks-of-digitizing-the-archive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Dava Sobel"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JISC Project]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/?p=1769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the opportunities that was open to members of the Board of Longitude project has been to get involved with producing written summaries of the content of all the Royal Greenwich Observatory Papers related to the Board of Longitude for the JISC Project “Navigating Eighteenth-Century Science and Technology: The Board of Longitude”. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest post: The Board, Bligh and Brando</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/03/guest-post-the-board-bligh-and-brando/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/03/guest-post-the-board-bligh-and-brando/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dunn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History, 18th-century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Objects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["John Harrison"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Larcum Kendall"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["William Bligh"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constantine Phipps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fletcher Christian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HMS Bounty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marlon Brando]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/?p=1746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tracey Gooch, who has been helping with our digitisation project, has been looking at the story of Captain Bligh and the Bounty mutiny: On the morning of 28 April 1789 William Bligh stood on the deck of his ship the Bounty surrounded by mutineers and staring down the wrong end of Fletcher Christian’s bayonet while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Man in Foulby</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/02/our-man-in-foulby/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/2013/04/02/our-man-in-foulby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History, 18th-century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Longitude tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Objects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sources]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/?p=1739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard blogged about his tourist trips to sites in Germany associated with Tobias Mayer back in 2011, so I thought it only fair to give John Harrison his turn in the spotlight. Last week I braved the snow in Yorkshire to head over to the neighbouring villages of Nostell and Foulby, where Harrison started life. [...]]]></description>
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