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The interest : how the British establishment resisted the abolition of slavery /Michael Taylor. "For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer. In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in British colonies remained enslaved. And when a renewed abolitionist campaign was mounted, making slave ownership the defining political and moral issue of the day, emancipation was fiercely resisted by the powerful 'West India Interest'. Supported by nearly every leading figure of the British establishment - including Canning, Peel and Gladstone, The Times and Spectator - the Interest ensures that slavery survived until 1833 and that when abolition came at last, compensation worth ¹340 billion in today's money was given not to the enslaved but to the slaveholders, entrenchign the power of their families to shape modern Britian to this day. Drawing on major new research, this long-overdue and groundbreaking history provides a gripping narrative account of the tumultuous and often violent battle - between rebels and planters, between abolitionists and the pro-slavery establishment - that divided and scarred the nation during these years of upheaval. The Interest reveals the lengths to which British leaders went to defend the indefensible in the name of profit, showing that the ultimate triumph of abolition came at a bitter cost and was one of the darkest and most dramatic episodes in British history."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3620941

Turret versus broadside : an anatomy of British naval prestige, revolution and disaster, 1860-1870 /Howard J. Fuller. "On the 150th anniversary of the capsizing of Britain's low-freeboard yet fully-masted ironclad, HMS Captain, this widely-researched, intensive analysis of the great 'Turret vs. Broadside' debate sheds new light on how the most well-funded and professional navy in the world at the height of its power could nevertheless build an 'inherently unstable' capital ship. Utilising an impressive array of government reports, contemporary periodicals, and unpublished personal papers this definitive study crucially provides for the first time both a long-term and international context. The 1860s was a pivotal decade in the evolution of British national identity as well as warship design. Nor were these two elements mutually exclusive. 1860 began gloriously with the launch of Britain's first ocean-going ironclad, HMS Warrior, but 1870 ended badly with the Captain. Along the way, British public and political faith in the supremacy of the Royal Navy was not reaffirmed as some histories suggest, but wavered. The growing emphasis upon new technologies including ever heavier guns and thicker armour plating for men-of-war was not 'decisive' but divisive, as pressure mounted to somehow combine the range of Warrior with the unique protection and hitting power of American monitor-ironclads of the Civil War. As the geopolitical debate over rival ironclad proposals intensified, aggressively-minded Prime Minister Lord Palmerston gradually adopted a non-interventionist foreign policy which surprised his contemporaries. Turret versus Broadside traces the previously unexplored connection between an increasingly schizophrenic Admiralty for and against the Captain, for example, and sabre-rattling mid-Victorians sinking into an era of 'Splendid Isolation'."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00941

Other worlds than ours : the plurality of worlds studied under the light of recent scientific researches /Richard A. Proctor. Proctor, Richard A.-(Richard Anthony), 1882. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 524

The port of Rye : by Neil Hawke. "The purpose of this work is to set out the nature and extent of Rye's role as a port, trading with the world from 1837 to the present, paying special attention to the vessels that sustained that trade. It was in 1837 that Victoria ascended to the throne. Along the way an opportunity will be taken to look at the port's proud history as a shipbuilding centre which is well represented by the picture on the front of this monograph, showing the schooner Mary Ann, built at Rye in 1851."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

On a method of determining the dimensions of the disks of those stars which are liable to be occulted by the Moon / R. A. Proctor Proctor, Richard A.-(Richard Anthony), 1869 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.3:094

Sir George Burns, Bart : his times and friends /by Edwin Hodder. A biography of Sir George Burns, Bart, co-founder of the Glasgow Steam Packet Company and British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, forerunner of the Cunard Line. 1890. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 347.792Burns

The Daniells : artists and travellers /by Thomas Sutton. The Daniells, William, Samuel and Thomas were well travelled artists who produced a large body of work during the eighteenth century. William and Samuel were brothers and Thomas was their uncle. Thomas and William were both Royal Academicians (R.A.s). This book describes their journeys around India, Africa and Great Britain which gave them the material for their work, which comprises a large number of aquatints, prints and drawings. It also covers their early lives and artistic training. There are illustrations of their work in colour and black and white. Appendix I is a list of the original paintings and drawings by the Daniells. Appendix II is a list of their printed and engraved works. There is also a short bibliography and an index. 1954. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863) / by Charles Rathbone Low. Low, Charles Rathbone, [2011] • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49(54)

Il Bucintoro di Venezia 1837 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 394.4:629.122.3(453.1)

The missing whalers 1978 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.25

Memoirs of a smuggler Rattenbury, John 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Rattenbury

A topographical dictionary of Ireland ... Lewis, Samuel, 1837 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:914.15(03)

The marine sketch book Moses, Henry, 1837 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:7.047(26)

Mâemoire sur les divers moyens de se procurer une base : par la mesure directe, par la vitesse du son, par des observations astronomiques. Description d'un nouvel instrument pour mesurer le vitesses du vent, et formules relatives áa la râesolution des triangles gâeodâesiques /A.-M.-R Chazallon. Chazallon, Antoine-Marie-Râemi. 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.02:094

New hints on the art of miniature painting Old Professor 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 75.02:094

Proposed settlement of Davis Strait 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(98)

Scenes from the life of Edward Lascelles, Gent. Cruikshank, George (ill) 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:820-31

La historia fisica, politica y natural de la Isla de Cuba : plates Sagra, Ramon de la 1837 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:917.291

General report to the King in council from the Honourable Board of Commissioners on the Public Records : appointed by His Majesty King William IV, by a commission dated the 12th of March, in the first year of his reign; with an appendix and index. Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons. 1837. • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 342.537:091

A treatise on definite integrals Moseley, Henry :-Rev 1837 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 51:094

The lives and exploits of banditti and robbers in all parts of the world Macfarlane, C 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.1

Astronomy and general physics considered with reference to natural theology Whewell, William 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5"18"

Notice of the Royal George, 108 guns, which was lost at Spithead, 29th August, 1782 1837 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3Royal George

Voyages aux iles du Grand Ocean ... Moerenhout, J A 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(96)"1828/1834"

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