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Building the steam navy : docklands, technology and the creation of the Victorian battle fleet 1830-1906 Evans, David 2004 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.54(42)
Travelling by sea in the nineteenth century : interior design in Victorian passenger ships /[by] Basil Greenhill, Basil 1972. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 656.61.072.6
The epic voyages of Maud Berridge: the seafaring diary of a victorian lady /Sally Berridge Maud Berridge (1845-1907) was the wife of Henry Berridge, master mariner and captain of three sailing ships: Walmer Castle, Highflyer and Superb, all owned by Greens at Blackwall Yard, London. Maud accompanied Henry on at least five voyages to Melbourne, Australia, writing diaries of her travels. This book is based on the two surviving diaries and is written by Maud's great granddaughter. The diaries contain details of the voyages and life on board and are supplemented by the author with background and contextual information on the ships and shipping industry at the time, as well as details of the family history. Illustrated with photographs. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BERRIDGE
The Victorian eye : a political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910 /Chris Otter. Otter, Chris. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 535"1800/1910"
Public health and politics in the age of reform : cholera, the state and the Royal Navy in Victorian McLean, David. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 613.82(42)"18"
The Victorian empire and Britain's maritime world, 1837-1901 : the sea and global history /edited by 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941-44"18/19"
Merseyside in monochrome : Priestley and Sons, Merseyside photographers - the story of a Victorian and Priestley, Michael G. 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 77PRIESTLEY:627.2(427.2)
Thomas Sutherland : a great Victorian : chairman of P&O, founder of HSBC, member of parliament /Malcolm A biography of Sir Thomas Sutherland (1834-1922) illustrated with photographs and including an abbreviated family tree. Born in Aberdeen, at the age of 18 Sutherland left Scotland for London where he joined P&O as a clerk. Promoted to Superintendent, Sutherland was posted to Hong Kong two years later. In Hong Kong Sutherland managed the company's Asian operation, participated in the establishment of a new dock company, the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, and founded the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. He was also appointed a Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Returning to London, Sutherland was appointed Managing Director of P&O in 1872 and later Chairman of the Board of Governors. He served on the Board of the Suez Canal Company, became Director of Midland Bank and served as Member of Parliament for Greenock from 1884-1900. Appendices include a list of Sutherland's speeches in the House of Commons, social engagements and a record of his travels to France. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SUTHERLAND
Pleasure boating in the Victorian era : an anthology of some of the more enterprising voyages made in Vine, P A L 1983 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 016:797.1
The late Victorian Navy : the pre-dreadnought era and the origins of the First World War /Roger Parkinson Parkinson, Roger. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.02(42)"1889/1906"
officers' letters : a study of letters sent to and from British Royal Navy officers serving abroad in the Victorian Osborn, Geoffrey 1995 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 355.353(42):656.845
arts, bibliography, collecting, economics, history, medicine, natural history, science and technology, Victorian Hammond, Frank 1967 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 017.4
: the Victorian navy and supremacy at sea, 1954-1904 /Antony Preston and John Major ; foreword by Andrew Preston, Antony, c2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Dante and the early astronomer : science, adventure, and a Victorian woman who opened the heavens /Tracy "In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's Divine Comedy. Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars. From the perspective of one remarkable amateur astronomer, readers will see how ideas developed during Galileo's time evolved or were discarded in Newtonian conceptions of the cosmos and recast in Einstein's theories. The result is a book about the history of science but also a poetic meditation on literature, science, and the evolution of ideas."--Provided by the publisher 2019 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92EVERSHED
The Englishman in China during the Victorian era : as illustrated in the career of Sir Rutherford Alcock Michie, Alexander 1900 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 337(51)"18"
Dooie : Manx inventor, american pioneer, explorer, poet and forgotten genius : the life and career of a Victorian Stimpson, Robert W. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92KENNISH
William Chicken, master mariner : an outline of the maritime life of a Victorian Londoner 1871-1934 / A biography of William Chicken, who served in the British merchant marine between 1885 and 1920, written by his grandson. The book details Chicken's service on routes to Australasia, the United States, and the Caribbean, with a particular focus on his wartime service in HMAT A8 Argyllshire, transporting troops and supplies between Australia and the war theatre, as well as his post-navy career with a private lighterage firm. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout. 2017. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
Legacies of British slave-ownership : colonial slavery and the formation of Victorian Britain /Catherine "This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relationship between past and present."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326(41-44)"18"
'The 'sport' of dhow-chasing' : an examination of late Victorian attitudes to slavery in East Africa Birkbeck, University of London, • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
A Victorian sea adventure : the final voyage of the clipper ship Teviotdale in 1876 : a true account Jenkins, George, [2019] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123TEVIOTDALE
Narrating modernity : the British problem picture 1895-1914 Fletcher, Pamela M 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.036"1895/1914"
British artists and the modernist landscape Holt, Ysanne 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7(42)
In commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Lord Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass, USA, Saturday, October twenty-first, MCMV : official programme Victorian Club (Boston, Mass) 1905 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 394.46:92Nelson
Writing Arctic disaster : authorship and exploration /Adriana Craciun. "How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic and the Northwest Passage through nineteenth-century perspectives, which focused on the discoveries of individual explorers, their illustrated books, visual culture, imperial ambitions, and high-profile disasters. However, the farther back one looks, the more striking the differences appear in how Arctic exploration was envisioned. Writing Arctic Disaster uncovers a wide range of exploration cultures: from the manuscripts of secretive corporations like the Hudson's Bay Company, to the nationalist Admiralty and its innovative illustrated books, to the searches for and exhibits of disaster relics in the Victorian era. This innovative study reveals the dangerous afterlife of this Victorian conflation of exploration and disaster, in the geopolitical significance accruing around the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship Erebus in the Northwest Passage."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"17/20"