Theme 1: Lloyd’s Register Collection - Safeguarding Old Knowledge, and Corporate Memory
Ensuring preservation and sustainability of historic records, while fostering trust and accessibility to make the collection available worldwide.
Key themes 2025-2029
Our key themes for 2025–2029 connect the past and present to deepen understanding of the challenges facing the maritime sector and help to build a safer, more sustainable, and resilient ocean economy for future generations.
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About our key themes
Our maritime heritage plays a crucial role in supporting the Lloyd’s Register Foundation's mission to engineer a safer world. Over the next four years, we are leveraging our Heritage Centre's expertise to amplify the Foundation’s impact across three interconnected priority areas: Safer Maritime Systems, Skilled People for Safer Engineering, and Safer Sustainable Infrastructure.
Our extensive heritage collections, comprising over 1.1 million documents, chronicle the construction, maintenance, and evolution of ships and maritime trade since the 1830s. These specialist collections are freely accessible both online and in-person at the Lloyd’s Register Building in London. Our heritage team collaborates with a diverse array of global partners to unlock the value of this archive, promoting a 'Learning From the Past' approach to maritime safety, technical transitions, equity, and transparency. By uncovering historical insights, we can enhance our understanding of the challenges facing the maritime sector, both past and present, and contribute to building a safer, more sustainable, and resilient ocean economy for future generations.
Within this rich heritage scope, the following Heritage Key Themes provide a clear framework to guide the work priorities and practices of the Heritage Centre in alignment with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation strategy.
Our key theme framework
Used to guide the work priorities and practices of the Heritage Centre.
