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Royal river highway : a history of the passenger boats and services on the River Thames /Frank L. Dix Dix, Frank L 1985 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.122.6

The promised land: the story of emigration from Oxfordshire, and neighbouring Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire 1815-1914 /Martin Greenwood. "The author has written a lively and knowledgeable story of emigration from Oxfordshire and its neighbouring shires from 1815 to 1914. The story begins with the voyages of Captain Cook, which led to the provision of new places for penal colonies in Australia. Free emigration also gathered steam in the 1830s, followed by the Great Exodus from 1850. The story evokes the bustle and confusion of migrants at Liverpool, and the emotions of departure. It looks at their shipping, health problems, costs and shipwrecks, and at their experience on arrival. It also examines the political changes, particularly to the Poor Laws and Corn Laws."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

War memories : the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in modern European culture /edited by Alan Forrest, âEtienne Franðcois and Karen Hagemann. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940"1793/1815":32.019.5

Communications : an international history of the formative years /Russell Burns. Burns, R. W. c2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 659.3(091)

Narratives of shipwrecks of the Royal Navy, between 1793 and 1849, compiled principally from official documents in the Admiralty Gilly, William O S 1850 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:656.61.085.3

British naval armaments / edited by Robert D. Smith. "A series of key articles on the general development of artillery in the period 1600-1900. Discusses the mechanisms of loading and firing and also specific guns."--Provided by the publisher. 1989. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.421.2(42)"16/19"

Maritime Thanet : over 250 years of maritime history in Ramsgate, Broadstairs and Margate /Robert B. Matkin Matkin, Robert B 1982 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 914.223(26)

Address of the right honourable the Earl of Rosse, &c. &c. &c., the president : read at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society on Friday, November 30, 1849 Rosse, William Parsons,-Earl of, 1850 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

Reports of the Secretary of War : with reconnaissance of routes from San Antonio to El Paso /J.E. Johnston et al Johnston, J. E. 1850. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.535(73):094

The screw-fleet of the navy Halsted, E P 1850 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 355.02(42)

[Exerpt from the Naval Chronicle, Vol. 4, 1800]. [1800]. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.

SS United States : speed queen of the seas /William H. Miller. "Built in 1952 for the United States Lines, the SS United States was unlike any other ocean liner. She had been designed from the outset to serve as both a transatlantic ferry and as a troop and hospital ship in time of war. Her design was a military secret and her power plant similar to that fitted to the largest of American battleships. She could do a staggering 45kt, over twelve knots faster than her nearest rival. She soon became the ship to be seen on and the illustrious passeger lists included the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who favoured the ship's Duck Suite. The entry of the SS United States, the largest passenger ship built in America, marked the first time since the 1850's that an American ship had held the Blue Riband. This amazing ocean liner surpassed European speed records by a huge margin and a ship as fast is unlikely ever to be built again."--From the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123UNITED STATES

The Brocktorff mapmakers / Albert Ganado, Joseph Schiráo, Claude Micallef Attard. "TheBrocktorff Mapmakers is an exhibition showing rare broadsheets, books and various reports which wre illustrated with maps and plans drawn and lithographed by the Brocktorff family in the 19th century. The catalogue comprises a scholarly presentation of 138 maps and plans of the Brocktorff family. These are presented in the order of each family member of the Brocktorff dynasty according to their date-of-birth starting from the paterfamilias Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1781-1850) to the youngest member Leopoldo Brocktorff (1826-86). At the end of the catalogue there is also a section of other maps which are Brocktorff-related. The maps are fully described and useful additional historical and cartographical information is also provided."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.9(458.2)

Map worlds : a history of women in cartography /Will C. van den Hoonaard. Van den Hoonaard, Will. C.-(Willy Carl), [2013] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 526.0922

Eighteenth-century naval officers : a transnational perspective /Evan Wilson, AnnaSara Hammar, Jakob Seerup, editors. "This book surveys the lives and careers of naval officers across Europe at the height of the age of sail. It traces the professionalization of naval officers by exploring their preparation for life at sea and the challenges they faced while in command. It also demonstrates the uniqueness of the maritime experience, as long voyages and isolation at sea cemented their bond with naval officers across Europe while separating them from landlubbers. It depicts, in a way no previous study has, the parameters of their shared experiences-both the similarities that crossed national boundaries and connected officers, and the differences that can only be seen from an international perspective."--Provided by the publisher. [2019] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.333.3"17"

Naval tactics and trials of sailing illustrated by diagrams of the several evolutions, to which are added, the established plan of lights for steam-vessels, and regulations to avoid collision Biddlecombe, George, 1850 • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available. 094:355.461

Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes : including letters of other eminent men now first published from the originals in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge ; together with an appendix, containing other unpublished letters and papers by Newton ; with notes, synoptical view of the philosopher's life, and a variety of details illustrative of his history /by J. Edleston. Newton, Isaac, 1850. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 510.92

The American flag : two centuries of concord & conflict /Howard Michael Madaus and Whitney Smith ; introduction by Wayne Fields. Madaus, Howard Michael. c2006. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 929.9.021(73)

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 heavens on earth : observatories and astronomy in nineteenth-century science and culture /edited by David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, and H. Otto Sibum. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 520.1"19"

Africans and the industrial revolution in England "Drawing on classical development theory and recent theoretical advances on the connection between expanding markets and technological development, this book shows the critical role of expanding Atlantic commerce in the successful completion of England's industrialization process over the period 1650-1850. The contribution of Africans, the central focus of the book, is measured in terms of the role of diasporic Africans in large-scale commodity production in the Americas - of which expanding Atlantic commerce was a function - at a time when demographic and other socio-economic conditions in the Atlantic basin encouraged small-scale production by independent populations, largely for subsistence. This is the first detailed study of the role of overseas trade in the Industrial Revolution. It revises inward-looking explanations that have dominated the field in recent decades and shifts the assessment of African contribution away from debate on profits." --Provided by the publisher. 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(261):942.06/.081(=96)

Tropical visions in an age of empire / edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(213.5)

The Greenwich roll of honour 1914-1918 : Remembering the fallen 100 years after the end of the First World War "The names of Greenwich's war dead were not inscribed on the local War Memorial. The fallen were rendered almost invisible. Until now. The Greenwich Roll of Honour: 1914-1918 is a new publication timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. This poignant booklet reproduces the list of Greenwich's fallen which was originally compiled by the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich and placed inside the borough war memorial at the top of Maze Hill. See the list of about 1850 local men who died and read the story of the borough's war memorial alongside new colour photography of local memorials. This special booklet, with a foreword by the Revd Canon Chris Moody, is out now."--Provided by the publisher. 2018 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 940.467

Merchants, medicine and Trafalgar : the history of the Harvey family /by Richard Morris. This book covers the history of the family from 1578 until the 1950s. Five of Thomas Harvey's seven sons followed their father in becoming merchants in the City of London, trading in silks and spices. The eldest son was William Harvey, the noted physician who discovered the circulation of the blood in 1628. He was physician to Charles I and was with the King at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642. The fifth generation of the Harvey family included Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey who commanded the Temeraire at Trafalgar. The family lived at Rolls Park, Chigwell, Essex for over 200 years, where they amassed a collection of art, although this was dispersed after the death of the Admiral in 1830. By 1953 Rolls Park was in decline and very little remains today. The book contains new material including previously unpublished letters about the Admiral's role at Trafalgar and his daughter Louisa's relationship with the Duke of Wellington. Appendix B contains coffin inscriptions in the Harvey vault at St Andrew's Church, Hempstead, Essex. Appendix C gives details of Harvey family monumental inscriptions in the Harvey Chapel of that church. There are a few black and white and colour illustrations, a bibliography and an index. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

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