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sodomy, prayers, and the lash revisited : Winston Churchill and social reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915 "'Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.' This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones that were subject to major reform initiatives while Churchill was in charge of the Royal Navy between October 1911 and May 1915. During this period, not only were there major improvements in pay and conditions for sailors, but detailed consideration was also given to the future of the spirit ration; to the punishing and eradicating of homosexual practices; to the spiritual concerns of the fleet; and to the regime of corporal punishment that underpinned naval discipline for boy sailors. In short, under Churchill, the Royal Navy introduced a social reform programme perfectly encapsulated in this elegant quip. And, yet, not only has no one studied it; many people do not even know that such a programme even existed. This book rectifies that. It shows that Churchill was not just a major architect of welfare reform as President of the Board of Trade and as Home Secretary, but that he continued to push a radical social agenda while running the Navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)"1900/1915"
of representatives of authorities under the Sea Fisheries Regulation Act, 1888, Thursday 22nd June 1915 Great Britain. Parliament 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.2
cruises of Gustavus Conyngham, a captain of the continental navy 1777-1779 / Neeser, Robert Wilden. 1915 1915 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Conyngham
The log of HMS Bristol : commission 13th May 1914, till December 17th 1915, in Mexican waters, 4th cruiser Buchan, W M 1916 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 623.822.3(42)"19"
for 1925.0 : catalogue of 2643 stars from observations with the transit circle ... during the years 1915 Dyson, Frank Watson 1924 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 524.3(083.8)
Visitors of the Royal Observatory Greenwich : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, 1915 Dyson, F W 1915 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 520.1:094
Tarlair and memories of the Hawkcraig Admiralty Experimental Establishment Station, Aberdour, Fife, 1915 "Other than two or three shattered concrete hut bases and the crumbling ruins of an old pier, nothing now remains of HMS Tarlair, WW1 Admiralty research station, yet the work carried out here is of local and national significance. This new edition includes more images of the base and further details of the wide-ranging and innovative work carried out and of the people involved. During its short period of operation, major technological advances were achieved in the battle against the German U-boat, and around 4,000 officers and men trained here. Diana Maxwell draws together local and national records with personal recollections of the people who lived and worked around the base. It is a fascinating account that is not only the story of the development of technology, but also of the characters and personalities involved."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.81
parallels of latitude 31 deg and 60 deg and parallels of declination 0 deg and 24 deg / Ball, Frederick. 1915 Ball, Frederick 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.28
John S Barnes Memorial Library. 1915. Naval History Society. John S Barnes Memorial Library 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 017.1(747)Naval
The Naval General Service Medal 1915-1962 to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines for the bars Persian Gulf 1995 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 355.134.22(42)"1915/1962"
General Register Office. 1915. Great Britain. General Register Office 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.79
with the raid on e north-east coast, December 16th 1914; no 12 the action of Dogger Bank, January 24 1915 Great Britain.-Admiralty 1921 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 940.454/.455
China, and Australia Mails for the period from the 1st day of February 1908 to the 31st day of January 1915 Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1907 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.86
Bean's Gallipoli : The diaries of Australia's official war correspondent /Kevin Fewster The edited diaries of Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, the official press correspondent with the Australian Imperial Force. Bean begain his diary on leaving Melbourne and kept the diary in Egypt and throughout his time at Anzac Cove having landed at Gallipoli on the first morning of the campaign and leaving shortly before the last of the troops were evacuated. The diaries, written each evening, are a key source for understanding the campaign recording Bean's personal observations, interviews with soldiers and visits to the front and describing both daily life and battle. The text is illustrated with some of Bean's own photographs. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.455(496.1)
Recollections : the reminiscences of the busy life of one who has played the varied parts of sailor, author and lecturer Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Bullen
Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington ; with a new introduction by Ishmael Reed and a new afterword by Robert J. Norrell. The autobiography of Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) who was born on a tobacco farm in Virginia, and enslaved from birth. Following the Emancipation Proclamation, his family moved to West Virginia where he worked in the mines while studying. Subsequently enrolling in the Hampton Institute, he later became a teacher there and went on to found the Tuskegee Institute, a vocational school, in Alabama. He became recognised as a pioneer of black education in the United States and a critic of racism, becoming the first African-American to receive an honorary PhD from Harvard University. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92:326.8(73)
Signal card, 1908 Great Britain.-Admiralty 1908 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 627.724
A new account of East India and Persia : being nine years travels 1672-1681 Fryer, John 1909-1915 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 910.4(54/55)"1672/1681"
A century of loan exhibitions 1813-1912 / by Algernon Graves. Graves, Algernon 1970. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 061.43
Sea puritans Bullen, Frank Thomas, ca1920 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.49"16"
Essay on naval tactics Laughton, John Knox, 1874 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.462.3
Some modern explosives Noble, Andrew,-Sir, 1900 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 662.1/.4
The story of Trafalgar Laughton, John Knox, 1890 • • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805"(42:44)
Nelson's last codicil Laughton, John Knox, 1889 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92Nelson