About us

Maritime Safety: Increasing the understanding of its importance to the past, present and future ocean economy.

  • Our vision & mission
  • What we do

Maritime safety has always been critical to the ocean economy. Today, as the industry navigates the challenges of climate change, sustainable global supply chains and net zero targets, the Centre asks - what lessons can we learn from the past that will help us shape a safer ocean economy for tomorrow?

Our mission is to inform, educate, influence and inspire policy makers, researchers and business leaders as they meet these challenges. Leveraging our connections, heritage collections and creativity we will increase understanding across the world of the importance of maritime safety to a sustainable and efficient ocean economy.

We will innovate, pioneer and promote best practice within the maritime heritage sector to create the archive of the future, open and accessible to all.

 

Our Visitor Centre:

The Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Heritage & Education Centre is a public-facing library and archive holding material concerning over 260 years of marine and engineering science and history. The Centre is a part of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation and is focused on increasing the understanding and importance of maritime safety.

Based at 71 Fenchurch Street in London, the Centre’s is open to all, offering a unique collection of research resources from our reference library and corporate archive. To search our collection, visit our online catalogue.

The diversity of the Centre’s library and archive offer an invaluable resource to researchers from a variety of disciplines, including maritime, business, engineering, genealogy and linguistics.

Please note, the visitor centre is closed throughout 2024 due to refurbishment.

Meet the Team

  • Alex Stitt

    Director of the Heritage & Education Centre

    Alex Stitt

    Director of the Heritage & Education Centre Alex is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the Heritage & Education Centre. With over 15 years previous experience with digital media, and a directorship role at a world-renowned museum, Alex's role will help HEC become a globally recognised archive.
  • Sean Clemenson

    Head of Digital Development

    Sean Clemenson

    Head of Digital Development Sean is responsible for the development of the Centre's digital content and strategy; utilising innovative technologies to bring the Centre's collections to life in diverse formats.
    Society: The Staff Magazine of Lloyd's Register
  • Louise Sanger

    Head of Research, Interpretation & Engagement

    Louise Sanger

    Head of Research, Interpretation & Engagement Louise leads on the HEC research, interpretation and engagement strategy. Inspiring and guiding internal and external stakeholders in our mission - maritime safety. Contributing and communicating specialist knowledge in the area to increase the understanding of its importance to the past, present and future ocean economy. Our team work to scope and initiate flagship projects that showcase our vision, developing key research themes to generate valuable new insights that inspire change in the long-term.
    The Plimsoll line
  • Max Wilson

    Senior Archivist

    Max Wilson

    Senior Archivist As the Centre’s Senior Archivist Max assists the management, development and accessibility of the archive and heritage collections, with oversight of preservation/conservation, acquisitions, selection, archive arrangement, appraisal and cataloguing.
    Cheque in the Cupboard!
  • Sarah Mott

    Interpretation Coordinator

    Sarah Mott

    Interpretation Coordinator Sarah is responsible for delivering the interpretation strategy as well as HEC's social media channels and quarterly magazine.
    These are a few of our favourite things... Sarah Mott
  • Luca Rapisarda

    Engagement Coordinator

    Luca Rapisarda

    Engagement Coordinator Luca is responsible for managing all enquiries for the Heritage & Education Centre, maintaining a lively network of stakeholders, from research partners and universities to the general public.
  • Zach Schieferstein

    Archivist

    Zach Schieferstein

    Archivist As Archivist, Zach is working behind the scenes indexing, and arranging the archive collection to make them more accessible and helping to facilitate the move of the collections back to Fenchurch Street ready for its re-opening.
  • Eleanor Goodwin

    Archive Officer

    Eleanor Goodwin

    Archive Officer Eleanor is responsible for cataloguing and carrying out inventory to help make the archive accessible.
  • Susana Wheeler

    Digital Engagement Officer

    Susana Wheeler

    Digital Engagement Officer Susana is responsible for developing the Google Ads strategy as well as HEC’s digitised collections and platforms, including Google Books and Wikimedia Commons
  • Lucy Rumble

    Digitisation Assistant

    Lucy Rumble

    Digitisation Assistant Lucy is responsible for the digitisation of LR’s bound material using the in-house robotic scanner and is helping to make the archive accessible online.
  • Agniya Dremach

    Research Librarian

    Agniya Dremach

    Research Librarian As Research Librarian, Agniya is responsible for the management and development of the library collections. She also supports the HEC research strategy.