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Description of the universal equatoreal and of the new refraction apparatus, much improved by Mr Ramsden... Ramsden, J.-(Jesse), 1791 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:520.252

Nelson's navy in fiction and film : depictions of British sea power in the Napoleonic era /Sue Parrill. Summarises and critiques some 250 novels and 25 films, examining their portrayal of the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic era. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 823.009/358402745

Dictionary of early English / by Joseph T. Shipley, with a pref. by Mark Van Doren. "Joseph T. Shipley's tome Dictionary of Early English provides an indispensible and unparalleled reference tool on the study of early English. With a preface by Mark Van Doren and an extensive headword list, this dictionary brings to light the terms, concepts, and vocabulary of ancient English." 1955 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 030.8EARLY ENGLISH

Sea struck / W.H. Bunting. "Sea Struck is about the final decades of American square-rigged sail, as recorded in firsthand accounts of voyages made by three well-born young men from Massachusetts. There is plenty of adventure - storms, men overboard, a cargo of 'Chinese passengers', discipline that bordered on brutality, and exotic Far East ports - but these interwoven stories also demonstrate the fascinating web of connections in the New England maritime community."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.5/092/2744

Black 1919 : riots, resistance and racism in imperial Britain /Jacqueline Jenkinson. Jenkinson, Jacqueline, 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.00496

The Linnaeus Apostles : global science and adventure /editor-in-chief, Lars Hansen ; transcribed by Viveka Hansen. 2007-2011. • FOLIO • 11 copies available. 5-051"18"

Far distant ships : the blockade of Brest 1793-1815 /Quintin Barry "Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatened the security of the British Isles. It was a strategy that had been perfected by Sir Edward Hawke during the Seven Years War of 1756 - 1763, when it culminated in the stunning victory of Quiberon Bay. The American naval historian A.T. Mahan memorably summed up the contribution of the Royal Navy to the ultimate defeat of Napoleon when he wrote: 'Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the domination of the world.' There were many aspects to the blockade of Brest, but always at its centre was the need to frustrate French attempts at the invasion of Britain or Ireland. Most famous of these, of course, was Napoleon's intricate combination that led to the campaign of Trafalgar, in the course of which his invasion plans disintegrated. But there were many other offensive moves which it was the blockading fleet's duty to prevent. Inevitably, there were great sea battles when the French ventured out, though fewer than might have been expected. For many months at a time the British fleet was at sea off Brest facing the considerable dangers of wind and weather without encountering its adversary. There were many remarkable leaders who came to the fore during the long years of war; Howe, Bridport, St Vincent, Cornwallis and Keith were among those who led the Channel Fleet. Nelson described his captains as a 'band of brothers', but this was by no means a description that could be applied to the quarrelsome, self willed and argumentative group of men who held the destiny of the Royal Navy in their hands, whether at sea or around the boardroom table at the Admiralty. Drawing on the official and personal correspondence of those involved, this book traces the development of British naval strategy, as well as describing the crucial encounters between the rival fleets and the single ship actions which provided the press with a constant flow of news stories for its readers."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.463.3(42:44)"1793/1815"

Dutch gentlemen adventurers in Canada, 1811-1893 / translated and edited by Jan Krijff & Herman Ganzevoort. "This unique perspective of 19th century Canada is seen through the eyes of Dutch elite, from dukes to financiers of the Canadian Pacific Railway, travelling from the east to the west of Canada. Their journals, articles, manuscripts, letters and books have been translated and compiled for the first time in this new book by Jan Krijff and Herman Ganzevoort. This new material adds to the travel stories already known from French and English travellers of the time. The tale from one of the crew of an Arctic expedition provides another dimension to the stories of discovery and travel for pleasure."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(492:71)"1811/1893"

The Thames Iron Works 1837-1912 : a major shipbuilder on the Thames /Daniel Harrison. "The Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company, one of the great private enterprises of the Victorian age, launched some of the most famous warships of the time from its slipways at the mouth of the River Lea. A pioneer of shipbuilding in iron, the yard's expertise was also deployed in ground-breaking civil engineering projects using iron structures. Several important components of the yard were investigated at a Crossrail site on the Limmo peninsula, including engineering workshops, a furnace, a mast house and mould loft building, and a slipway. An account of the history of the company places it in the wider context of London?s 19th-century shipbuilding industry."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12THAMES

William Doxford & Sons Ltd. of Sunderland : shipbuilders and engineers 1837-1988 /Patricia Richardson. "This is the 'biography' of this outstanding family run company of British ship builders and marine engineers, spanning 150 years. After a hesitant beginning, William Doxford moved his yard to Pallion and brought his sons into the business. The company developed the innovative 'Turret Ship', and won the coveted Blue Riband for production in 1907. The sons controversially sold the business after WW1, but remained in charge, introducing the Marine Oil Engine, which helped them to survive the depressions of the 1920s and 1930s, and which was their icon to the 1970s. The book describes the successes of WW2 and the post war period, and then the struggles and decline of the British Shipbuilding Industry up to the Government's decision to close of yard at the end of 1988."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Like a wicked Noah's Ark : the Nautical School Ships Vernon & Sobraon /Sarah Luke. "Step back in time to 1860s Sydney, when ragged children populated the harbour city's slums, picking pockets and scraping a living selling matches and watercress. Neglected youths formed the city's gangs, thieving and assaulting the unwary. These 'larrikins' often ended up in gaol, and received a thorough criminal education from Faginesque professors of the art. In 1867 a solution to this problem was found. Fitted out for the reception of New South Wales' delinquent and abandoned boys, a Nautical School Ship was moored permanently within sight of Circular Quay on Sydney Harbour. The Colony's prisons were drained of their young inmates, and they were herded together in their dozens -- and later, hundreds -- on board. Like a Wicked Noah's Ark is the full and close-up history of this ground-breaking experiment in juvenile reformation, which operated continuously until 1911 on the Vernon and Sobraon."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 365/.42099441

The real Persuasion : portrait of a real-life Jane Austen heroine /Peter James Bowman. "This is the story of Anne Elliot in Jane Austen's Persuasion. It is also the story - true this time - of Katherine Bisshopp, the clever, beautiful daughter of an old Sussex family. Drawing on Katherine's letters and journals and other family papers, this book relates the joys and anxieties of her youth, her harrowing eleven-year courtship with George Pechell, and their happy and prosperous union, which produced two daughters and a son. Splinter chapters draw parallels with Jane Austen's portrait of society and reveal the extraordinary coincidences of character and circumstance between Katherine Bisshopp and Anne Elliot, while the real woman's experiences after her marriage are seen as a possible future for the fictional heroine. The reality of history and the deeper truth of literature together yield a detailed picture of the age."--provided by the Publisher 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.073092

The line upon a wind / Noel Mostert. "In February 1793 France declared war on Britain and Holland. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars that raged for the next twenty-two years saw European powers manoeuvring for mercantile and political advantage in a complex and ever-changing web of alliances and coalitions. By 1815 the world was a different place."--Dust jacket. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

An empire on trial : race, murder, and justice under British rule, 1870-1935 /Martin J. Wiener. 'An Empire on Trial' explores the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height - examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941-44:343

Blue China : single female migration to colonial Australia /Jan Gothard. "Almost a hundred thousand single women emigrated from Britain to the Australian colonies between 1850 and 1900. Colonial governments paid for their passages. The popular assumption is that most of these women came out to find husbands, but Jan Gothard establishes that the female immigration schemes were devised to ease the desperate shortage of domestic servants in the colonies. The attitudes of the time strictly curtailed their mobility and initiative. Shipboard matrons went to great lengths to keep their charges away from all men. On arrival, the young women were isolated from their fellow-colonists, and left ignorant about the wages they could have demanded in a hungry market. Blue China shows how women made their own use of institutions designed to control them. Brought to life by fascinating excerpts from journals and diaries written by the women themselves."--Provided by the publisher. 2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.1(42:94)"18/19"-055.2

The mindful hand : inquiry and invention from the late Renaissance to early industrialisation /edited by Lissa Roberts, Simon Schaffer and Peter Dear. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 001.894(4)"13/18"

Tychonis Brahe Dani, Astronomiae instauratae progymnasta : Quorum haec prima pars de restitutione motuum solis & Lunµ, stellarumque inerrantium tractat. Et prµterea de admiranda noua stella anno 1572. exorta luculenter agit. Brahe, Tycho, 1610 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 524:094

A course of experimental philosophy / by J. T. Desaguliers, LL. D. F. R. S., Chsplain to his grace the Duke of Chandos "To ontemplate the works of God, to discover causes from their effects, and make art and nature subservient to the necessities of life by a skill in joining proper causes to produce the most useful effects, is the business of a science, the grounds and principles of which I have the honour to lay at Your Royal Highness's feet"--Preface of volume 1. 1763 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 53:094

Astronomiae fundamenta : novissimis solis et stellarum observationibus stabilita Lutetiae in Collegio Mazarinµo et in Africa ad Caput Bonae Spei /peractis a Nicolao-Ludovico de La Caille, in alma Studiorum Universitate Parisiensi Matheseon Professore, Regiae Scientiarum Academiae Astronomo, & earum quae Petropoli, Berolini, Holmiae & Bononiae florent, Academiarum socio La Caille, Nicolas Louis de, 1757. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 92LA CAILLE:094

The new astronomer : or, astronomy made easy by such instruments that readily shew by observation the stars, or planets places either in the equator or ecliptick, or of Luna in her own proper orb, in any part of the world; they also take the latitude, find the variation of the needle and a true hour of the day. Likewise they are instruments as ready and useful in surveying, as any hitherto in use. /By W.R. [The plates signed: Willm. Ross]. Ross, William-(Astronomer) 1735. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52:094

Trafalgar in history : a battle and its aftermath /edited by David Cannadine. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805"(42:44)

In the hour of victory : the Royal Navy at war in the age of Nelson /Sam Willis. "The story of the greatest victories from the British navy's golden age, told through never-before-seen letters written by the officers at the heart of these battles. When Napoleon eventually died in exile, the Lords of the Admiralty ordered that the original dispatches from seven major fleet battles should be gathered together and presented to the Nation. Sam Willis stumbled upon this collection and soon found out that only a handful of people knew of its existence."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1806"(42)

Men of war : courage under fire in the nineteenth-century navy /David Crane. Crane, David, 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.0092241

The Channel fleet and the blockade of Brest 1793-1801 Morriss, Roger 2001 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"1792/1801"(42:44)

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