This is the definitive volume on English maritime antiques. The mostly 18th and 19th century pieces actually reveal a history of early English popular culture, paying tribute to a period when England ruled the sea. Included are delicate porcelain figurines, Wedgwood plates, ornate silver boxes, bronze statuettes, glass paintings and, even ships in a bottle.

Published to coincide with an exhibition in the Queen's House in November 2006, 'Art for the Nation' is a celebration of key oil paintings in the National Maritime Museum collection.

This series draws on the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich to illustrate the great maritime events of the prephotographic era.This volume illustrates all naval facets of the War of 1812 with contemporary sources from the British Maritime Museum and the archives of North America. It also includes a wealth of eyewitness material from diaries, journals, and sketchbooks of participants.

William Hodges is well known as the artist who accompanied Cook's second voyage to the South Pacific as official landscape painter. This book forms a major reappraisal of his career and reputation, arguing a central place for him in the development of British art. The nine essays included in this catalogue are by some of the foremost scholars in the area. They consider Hodges's work comparatively, in terms of the rise of ethnology, the investigation of Indian history, the encounter with peoples 'without history' and the development of empirical science and rationalism.

Volume one describes 300 collections of personal papers held by the Museum.