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Copyright
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The website includes some materials that are not the copyright of Royal Museums Greenwich. Every effort has been made to locate the copyright holders in order to obtain the appropriate permissions and correctly attribute them. We welcome any information that would help us to update or complete our records.
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The content of the website is subject to change without notice. If you cite the website as a reference, we recommend that you include the URL and the date you accessed it.
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