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Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1850 Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1850 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 520.1:094

Reform in the Royal Navy : a social history of the lower deck 1850 to 1880 Rasor, Eugene L., 1976 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 359"1850/1880"

Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : the Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700-1850 /edited by Richard "The naval leader has taken centre stage in traditional naval histories. However, while the historical narrative has been fairly consistent the development of various navies has been accompanied by assumptions, challenges and competing visions of the social characteristics of naval leaders and of their function. Whilst leadership has been a constant theme in historical studies, it has not been scrutinised as a phenomenon in its own right. This book examines the critical period in Europe between 1700 -1850, when political, economic and cultural shifts were bringing about a new understanding of the individual and of society. Bringing together context with a focus on naval leadership as a phenomenon is at the heart of this book, a unique collaborative venture between British, French and Spanish scholars. As globalisation develops in the twenty-first century the significance of navies looks set to increase. This volume of essays aims to place naval leadership in its historical context."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133.4(4)"1700/1850"

Naufrages en Provence : ou le livre des epaves : sinistres maritimes survenus sur les cotes provencales de 1850 Joncheray, Jean-Pierre 1984 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3(449.1/.3)"18/19"

The Gold Coast, Britain and the Netherlands, 1850-1874 / Douglas Coombs. ''In 1872 the Netherlands severed its last link with the African continent when it gave up to Great Britain its three hundred years' old foothold on the Gold Coast. So precarious was the Dutch position on the Coast by the time, that this cession was in a sense little more than a formality. But the events which led up to and followed it were decisive in inducing Britain to undertake for the first time a policy of 'effective control' of the peoples of what is now Southern Ghana. Primarily a study in British colonial policy, this book also throws fresh light upon the aims and motives of both Dutch and Ashantis during a little-known period of West African history. Much use is made of relevant Dutch archive material most of which has until now remained virtually untouched.''--Provided by the publisher. 1963. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 966

Articles of agreement made the ninth day of April in the year of our Lord 1850 between the Commissioners Great Britain. Admiralty. Commissioners 1850 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:347.792City of Dublin

King Guezo of Dahomey, 1850-52 : the abolition of the slave trade on the west coast of Africa. Coates, Tim (ed) 2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(66)"1850/1852"

The discovery of the North-West Passage by HMS Investigator, Capt R M'Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, M'Clure, Robert 1859 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Investigator

The telegraphic life : maintenance of the system 1850-1914 /John Trelawny Brooks Moyle "Htherto, historians have assumed that one a submarine telegraph cable had been laid, it would provide 50 to 70 years of reliable service. As one who has practical experience of engineering in a professional capacity, I found this order of reliability difficult to believe. I therefore set out to try and determine how reliable or otherwise this technology actually was and how it was maintained. These questions had not been asked before and proved more difficult to answer than might have been predicted because much of the information was concealed, deliberately or otherwise, by the cable operating companies. However there were key clues such as the number of cable repair ships afloat and multiple textbooks on cable maintenance. Having unearthed useful data from the archives of the Eastern Telegraph Company (ETC) and of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, I conclude that the submarine telegraph cables during the period from the first experimental attempts in 1850 up until the Great War were not as reliable as previously assumed. On average, a voyage to repair these cables was required once per annum per 500 nautical miles of cable and this rate remained constant from 1873, when the ETC was formed, up until 1914, the end of my period of research. During this period the system which was composed of a submarine cable connecting two telegraph stations appeared increasingly reliable and efficient because of improvements in the technology at the cable stations and the duplication of many cables which allowed rerouting of communications when malfunctions occurred. I also conclude that data was concealed by operating companies for commercial reasons. If this concealment had been less, then the genesis of the discipline of reliability engineering in the 9140s might have been developed 50 years earlier"--Provided by the author. 2015 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 621.394.4:621.315.28

of the voyage of HMS Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley, during the years 1846-1850 MacGillivray, John 1852 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 623.82Rattlesnake

Tabulae regiomontanae reductionum : observationum astronomicarum ab anno 1750 usque ad annum 1850 computatµ Bessel, F. W.-(Friedrich Wilhelm), 1830. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52(083.5):094

principles of magnetical science and the purposes to which it has been applied / Harris, W Snow, Sir. 1850 Harris, W Snow, Sir 1850-1852 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:537.67

Between worlds : voyagers to Britain, 1700-1850 /Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, David Bindman, Romita Ray, "From the seventeenth century, largely as a result of British colonial expansion, non-European visitors to England caused widespread frissons of excitement, interest and curiosity in social circles across the capital. This book examines the complexities and ambiguities of encounters between these visitors and their British contemporaries over 150 years. These visitors from former British colonies, including North America, the South Pacific, India and Africa; their reasons for coming and their reception in Britain were as diverse as their backgrounds. Their stories, their impressions and the impact they had on British society are examined here for the first time. The book brings to life the fascinating accounts of a small but diverse group of fourteen individuals, including the 'Four Indian Kings' from Canada and Mai from the South Pacific, Raja Rammonhun Roy from India and Sara Baartman 'The Hottentot Venus' from Africa. In addition to its art-historical import, this timely account is of real contemporary cultural resonance."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.46-054.6(42)"17/18"

Gerrit Bruijn 1850-1932 : \zbmet het dagboek van 2de stuurman Roelof Douwes 1906-1907 Belder, A. 2001 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123.132(492)ADRIANA

CLIWOC : climatological database for the world's oceans, 1750 to 1850 : results of a research project 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.585.1"1750/1850"

the Caprice yacht, Royal St George's Yacht Club, to Iceland and Norway, in the summer and autumn of 1850 Potts, W T 1851 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.125Caprice

The English East India Company's silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850 : economy, empire and business "This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal and presents the Company as a manufacturer rather than a trading body or political agent. Silk was one of the first globally traded commodities; its luxury status and potential to create tax revenues and employ the poor gave it a strategic importance in many economies in Eurasia. The silk industry was also an important sector in Britain; yet, as raw silk could not be produced domestically, the British government encouraged companies to source supplies from its colonies and the territories under its influence. Such projects proved to be challenging; the most successful was the English East India Company's venture in Bengal, where the Company invested over 1 million into developing raw silk production to meet the demands of British weavers. A key component was the transfer of silk technologies from the West to the East - one of the first in this direction rather than vice versa. The outcome of this enterprise was influenced by the business and management capacities of the Company and by British and, eventually, imperial policies, with serious consequences for the Indian economy. The book ultimately presents a case of manufacturing failure, but one resulting from British imperial policies rather than colonial economies."--Provided by the publisher 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382:677.3

. / Eardley-Wilmot, Arthur Parry. 1850. Eardley-Wilmot, Arthur Parry 1850 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.724/.725(42)"1850"

History of the lathe to 1850 : a study in the growth of a technical element of an industrial economy Woodbury, Robert S 1961 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 621.94

geschiedenis in 19de-eeuwse taferelen verbeeld : de historische galerij van Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon 1850 Amsterdams Historisch Museum 1991 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 061.43(083.83)

Grinnell Land : remarks on the English maps of Arctic discoveries, in 1850 and 1851, made at the Ordinary Force, Peter 1852 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Grinnell

phenological observations made by Miss Caroline Molesworth, at Cobham, Surrey, in the years 1825 to 1850 Molesworth, Caroline 1880 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.093M

Slavery hinterland : transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680-1850 /edited by Felix Brahm and ''Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economics that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. The volume unearths material entanglements of the Continental and Atlantic economies and also proposes a new agenda for the historical study of the relationship between business and morality. Contributors from the US, Britain and continental Europe examine the ways in which the slave economy touched on individual lives and economic developments in German-speaking Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. They reveal how these 'hinterlands' served as suppliers of investment, labour and trade goods for the slave trade and of materials for the plantation economies, and how involvement in trade networks contributed in turn to key economic developments in the 'hinterlands'. The chapters range in time from the first, short-lived attempt at establishing a German slave-trading operation in the 1680s to the involvement of textile manufacturers in transatlantic trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. A key theme of the volume is the question of conscience, or awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the moral challenge of slavery is found in individual actions and statements and also in post-abolition colonisation and missionary projects.''--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/62094

Journal of HMS Enterprise, on the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin's ships by Behring Strait, 1850 Collinson, Richard 1889 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Collinson

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