The visit was arranged as part of a 3^rd Year course which looks at aspects of British History in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The main focus of this term’s work has been on British Society seen through the life of an individual: Horatio Nelson.

At Greenwich we visited the Museum’s major international exhibition on Nelson which is designed to run for ten years to commemorate the 200^th anniversaries of his major naval victories in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The exhibition looks at all aspects of his personal and professional life set in the context of the time.

We also visited the Old Royal Observatory to see the exhibition on Time. The particular focus was on the eighteenth-century clocks, designed by John Harrison, which solved the problem of finding longitude at sea.

Pupils worked on a Museum worksheet to take them round the details of the Nelson exhibition as well as researching material for their own investigations into an aspect of his professional life.