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March 11th, 2011
Rebekah Higgitt reveals the life of Alice Everett, one of the first paid women to work at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Rebekah Higgitt reveals the life of Alice Everett, one of the first paid women to work at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Rebekah Higgitt reveals how ROG employee James Glaisher had a near-death experience while studying the weather in a balloon.
Rebekah Higgitt reveals how ROG assistant Charles Green became a stand-in Astronomer Royal, and joined Cook on his first voyage to view the transit of Venus in Tahiti.
Becky Higgitt reveals how ROG assistant Edward Walter Maunder influenced climate change research and the debate about life on Mars, through his research into the Sun.
Rebekah Higgitt introduces the ROG assistants and finds out about their lives and work.
Rebekah Higgitt tells us about the work of solar and astronomical photographers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from the 1840s onwards.
To celebrate the Prime Meridian’s 125th anniversary, Curator of the History of Science Rebekah Higgit reveals why Greenwich became its home.
Rebekah Higgitt takes us through the Museum’s collection of globes and maps of the Moon.
Rebekah Higgitt, Curator of History of Science and Technology, talks about one of her favourite objects – an early 19th-century astronomy board game, in which the winner was crowned Astronomer Royal.