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Index to ship launches 1840-1869 : compiled from the files of local newspapers held in the Local Studies Sunderland Public Libraries 1978-1979 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.123.13/.4(428.1)

A bitter draught : St Helena : the abolition of slavery 1792-1840 /Colin Fox. "A Bitter Draught tells the story of the abolition of slavery on St Helena, a small mid-Atlantic island, ruled for many years by the English East India Company. Slaves had been brought to the island from the time of its first settlement in 1659. In the late 18th century liberal-minded directors of the company wanted to see the end of slavery but were much less inclined to use their wealth to aid its eradication. Instead, it was left to the governors of the island to move matters forward, first by banning the import of slaves, then by freeing the children born of slave mothers and finally, and iniquituously, forcing the slaves to take out loans to purchase their own freedom. Repayment of these loans, hard enough under the Company's rule, became utterly unfeasible when the island's sovereignty reverted to the Crown in 1834, and the economy crashed. However, this book is more than just a narrative of these events, The author delves deeper into the story of the island's slaves - where they came from, how they lived, their occupations, their personal relationships, what they wore, ate and drank and even their humour. Small clues, hidden in the minutiae of EIC Factory records, have been collected to provide a glimpse into the lives of these unfortunate people. For many it was a terribly sad story, but there were some who strived with courage, fortitude and hard work to overcome all hardships and achieve freedom for both their families and themselves. These are their stories."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209973

Index to shipwrecks 1840-1869 : compiled from the files of local newspapers held in the Local Studies Sunderland Public Libraries 1978-1979 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3(428.1)

the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, June 6, 1840 Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1840 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 520.1:094

stellarum positiones in medias convertuntur adhibitis numeris constantubus pulcovensibus pro annis 1840 Struve, Otto 1861 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52-17

Tracey's attempt to raise her in 1783, also, Colonel Pasley's operations in removing the ship ... 1839-1840 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:656.61.085.3Royal George

Fleet 1840-2004 : the Cunard's flagships and floating palaces from the earliest days of steam to Queen Wills, Elspeth 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792Cunard

En junkares vag till "midshman" i Nolai I's flotta : Ernst Gustaf Jlius Thitz konceptbok fran 1840 till Ericsson, Christoffer H. 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92THITZ

Sons of the waves : the common seaman in the heroic age of sail, 1740-1840 /Stephen Taylor. "British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, 'illiterate' seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797 mutinies, these 'sons of the waves' held the nation's destiny in their calloused hands."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.0092241

List and index of the publications of the Royal Historical Society 1871-1924 and of the Camden Society 1840 Royal Historical Society 1925 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 017.42Camden Society

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 Wilkes, Charles 1845 • ATLAS-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(9)"1838/1842"

Facing the text : extra-illustration, print culture, and society in Britain, 1769-1840 /Lucy Peltz. "Facing the Text is essential for understanding the nature, popularity, and meanings of extra-illustration in the long eighteenth century and its place in the history of print culture. Lucy Peltz explores the practice in relation to the popularization of antiquarianism, the commercialization of print culture, the reception of engraved portraiture, and the rise of the amateur, the collector, and the connoisseur."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 76(42)

One hundred and fifty years of the Maltese Cross 1840-1990 : the story of Tyne, Blyth and Wear Tug Companies Proud, John H 1993 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.124.2(428.2)

remarkable trials and notorious characters, from Half-Hanged Smith, 1700 to Oxford who shot at the Queen, 1840 Phiz (ill) 1871 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 340.96

das Zeitalter der Ruderschiffe und der Segelschiffe fur die Kriegsfuhrung zur See vom Altertum bis 1840 Scharwz, Tjard 1909 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82"...1840"

The Guiana travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844 : volume 2 : the boundary survey 1840-1844 /edited Schomburgk, Robert H, Sir 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22

United States exploring expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Wilkes, Charles ca1855 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 596

Bombay Islam : the religious economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 /Nile Green. "As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism, and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration from the oceanic and continental hinterlands of Bombay in this period fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as Christian missionaries competed with Muslim religious entrepreneurs for a stake in the new market. Enabled by a colonial policy of non-intervention in religious affairs, and powered by steam travel and vernacular printing, Bombay's Islamic productions were exported as far as South Africa and Iran. Connecting histories of religion, labour, and globalization, the book examines the role of ordinary people mill hands and merchants in shaping the demand that drove the market. By drawing on hagiographies, travelogues, doctrinal works, and poems in Persian, Urdu, and Arabic, Bombay Islam unravels a vernacular modernity that saw people from across the Indian Ocean drawn into Bombay's industrial economy of enchantment"-- 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.9:33(547.1)

North Atlantic : an appraisal, with a Cunard slant, of the era of the North Atlantic ferry service 1840 Knell, K A 1972 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 656.61(261)

Exploration du territoire de l'Oregon, des Californies et de la mer Vermeille, executee pendant les annees 1840 Duflot de Mofras 1844 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26:79)"18"

United States exploring expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Wilkes, Charles 1855 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 595.3

With views of the Russian squadron / Moses, Henry. 1840. Moses, Henry, 1840 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:355.16(422.7)"1827"

marine en bois : le tour du monde de L'Uranie (1817-1820) [and] le voyage triomphal de la Belle-Poule (1840 Benoit-Guyod, Georges 1843 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Bonaparte

Distant freedom : St Helena and the abolition of the slave trade, 1840-1872 /Andrew Pearson. "This book is an examination of the island of St Helena's involvement in slave trade abolition. After the establishment of a British Vice-Admiralty court there in 1840, this tiny and remote South Atlantic colony became the hub of naval activity in the region. It served as a base for the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, and as such became the principal receiving depot for intercepted slave ships and their human cargo. During the middle decades of the nineteenth century over 25,000 'recaptive' or 'liberated' Africans were landed at the island. Here, in embryonic refugee camps, these former slaves lived and died, genuine freedom still a distant prospect. This book provides an account and evaluation of this episode. It begins by charting the political contexts which drew St Helena into the fray of abolition, and considers how its involvement, at times, came to occupy those at the highest levels of British politics. In the main, however, it focuses on St Helena itself, and examines how matters played out on the ground. The study utilises documentary sources (many previously untouched) which tell the stories of those whose lives became bound up in the compass of anti-slavery, far from London and long after the Abolition Act of 1807. It puts the Black experience at the foreground, aiming to bring a voice to a forgotten people, many of whom died in limbo, in a place that was physically and conceptually between freedom and slavery."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209973

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