Flora Bain talks with Dr. Julia Lovell about how the British Empire was bankrolled by the opium trade.

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John McAleer talks about the National Maritime Museum’s new permanent gallery.

Jude Holland reveals some of her favourite images in the Waterline exhibition.

Elizabeth Cunningham reveals how you can get your photographs shown on the Planetarium dome.

Dan Matthews talks to Marc Chivers about his lovingly-built pilot’s punt now on show in the ‘Boats that built Britain‘ exhibition.

Rebekah Higgitt tells us about the work of solar and astronomical photographers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from the 1840s onwards.

Telescopes aren’t just for gazing at the stars, as Marek Kukula and Richard Dunn find out. Join them on tour of a new display of telescopes at the Royal Observatory.

Join Claire Warrior for a preview of Beside the seaside, a new exhibition of historical photographs depicting life on the British coast. Find out more about this fascinating collection and about the images on show.