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The Routledge companion to Britain in the nineteenth century, 1815-1914 / Chris Cook. A compendium of information on the Victorian era, arranged in four sections: political, social and religious; economic; and foreign affairs, defence and empire. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942(048.8)"1815/1914"

The General Steam Navigation Company, c.1850-1913 : a business history /Robert Edward Forrester. This PhD thesis details the history of The General Steam Navigation Company, a London-based shipowner operating a range of steamship liner services, mainly for passengers but also for some cargo (including cattle). The study places the company within the context of the general history of British coastal shipping and short-sea shipping. As essentially a business history, it focuses on the motivations and activities of the management and provides a detailed analysis of the company's financial and operational performance within a changing political, legal and economic framework in an era that featured both 'The Great Victorian Boom' and 'The Great Depression'. Forrester examines the role played by two key Board chairmen, J Herbert Tritton and Richard White, in the fluctuating fortunes of the company during these times, in which it experienced a near collapse and slow recovery. Sample Profit and Loss Accounts, Balance Sheets and Receipts and Costs data are provided in numerous tables and figures. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Vapor Yavari : navigation on Lake Titicaca Peru 1862 /Meriel Larken. Larken, Meriel. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.2 YAVARI

Hull and East Riding clocks and watches and their London origins : including a directory of their makers before 1900 /compiled by J.E.S. Walker. Walker, J. E. S. [1982]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11(427.4)

Leviathan : the rise of Britain as a world power /David Scott. "The 350 years between the accession of the Tudors and the beginning of the Victorian era saw one of the great transformations of any nation in history: Britain emerged from its lowly position as European underdog to become the world's only maritime superpower. It was a period that saw the creation of Protestant kingdoms in England and Scotland, the gain and loss of American colonies and the beginnings of a new empire in Africa, India and Australasia. It is a slice of our past represented by some of the most compelling personalities to have graced the historical stage ? Elizabeth I, Nelson, Cromwell and Byron amongst them."--Dust jacket. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941-44"14/17"

City of laughter : sex and satire in eighteenth-century London /Vic Gatrell. An in-depth examination of London life from the 1770s to the 1830s through the lens of bawdy, vulgar and ribald humour. The book focuses on social satire, gossip, scandal, fashion, and sexual mores, exploring Londoners' attitudes, 'low manners' and how the culture of politeness changed with the advent of the Victorian era. Gatrell draws upon satirical prints to analyse the history of manners, exploring the popularity of scatological jokes, and how gender and class impacted humour. The book contains nearly 300 prints and caricatures reproduced in colour on high-quality, glossy paper with works by James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and George, Isaac and Robert Cruickshank featuring prominently. Extensively indexed, including lists of illustrations by chapter as well as by artist. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.12"18"

Advanced ship modelling The book, which deals with advanced theory and practice for the maritime modeller, covers the philosophy of model-making, building static and working models, researching sources of information and reading drawings. With detailed informaton on workshop practice, theory and technique, the book is illustrated with the author's own modelling projects. Covering materials, hulls, superstructure and decks, armament, finishing and painting, etching and making glass display cases, illustrations include models of Victorian warships Devastation and Magnificent, 20th-century ships Belfast and Queen Elizabeth, aircraft carrier Glorious and the battleship Anson, and RNLI lifeboats including Grace Darling's coble. It also includes photographs of models by Jimmy Wood and Alex MacFadyen. 2000 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.123.1:086.5

The Thames Iron Works 1837-1912 : a major shipbuilder on the Thames /Daniel Harrison. "The Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company, one of the great private enterprises of the Victorian age, launched some of the most famous warships of the time from its slipways at the mouth of the River Lea. A pioneer of shipbuilding in iron, the yard's expertise was also deployed in ground-breaking civil engineering projects using iron structures. Several important components of the yard were investigated at a Crossrail site on the Limmo peninsula, including engineering workshops, a furnace, a mast house and mould loft building, and a slipway. An account of the history of the company places it in the wider context of London?s 19th-century shipbuilding industry."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12THAMES

The fatal fortress / the guns and fortifications of Singapore 1819-1856 /Bill Clements. "The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 was arguably the greatest disaster suffered by the British Empire. Between 1923 and 1938, the Singapore naval base had been upgraded with some of the largest coast guns ever installed. The guns' design and incorrect siting have since been blamed for the humiliating debacle. The Fatal Fortress traces the history of Singapore's fortifications and guns from the city's foundation in 1819 to the demise of coast artillery in the British Army in 1953. It also follows the development of artillery through the Victorian era of muzzle-loading guns to the introduction of the large breech-loading guns of the twentieth century. The author argues that it was not the siting of the guns that brought about the fall of Singapore, but an overall failure in command and control and a lack of suitable ammunition. The book is illustrated with a large number of photographs, drawings and plans, and contains a gazetteer describing all the batteries and forts, both existing and demolished. There is also an annex giving the details of the guns that were installed in Singapore."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.1/.3(592.3)

The Portsmouth Dockyard story : from 1212 to the present day /Paul Brown. "From muddy creek to naval-industrial powerhouse; from constructing wooden walls to building Dreadnoughts; from maintaining King John's galleys to servicing the enormous new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers: this is the story of Portsmouth Dockyard. Respected maritime historian Paul Brown's unique 800-year history of what was once the largest industrial organisation in the world is a combination of extensive original research and stunning images. The most comprehensive history of the dockyard to date, it is sure to become the definitive work on this important heritage site and modern naval base."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.81(422.7)

Forgotten songs and stories of the sea : A treasury of voices from our maritime past /Caroline Rochford "Stirring tales of heroism at sea have been engrained in the annals of maritime history since time immemorial. Christopher Columbus's discovery of the New World, Queen Elizabeth I's defeat of the Spanish Armada, and Horatio Nelson's victory at Trafalgar are just some of Britain's most memorable naval triumphs. But what about the lesser-known tales from our seafaring past? The Victorian who invented a swimming machine in order to cross the English Channel; the capture of a 'real-life' mermaid; the lost pirate treasure of Alborâan; the ghost of a murdered sailor who still haunts the streets of Portsmouth; and the daring explorers who vanished into the blue yonder, leaving behind nothing but a cryptic message in a champagne bottle - these are just some of our quirky naval stories that have been chronicled in verse and archived in newspaper clippings, and forgotten with the passage of time. Historian and genealogist Caroline Rochford has compiled 200 traditional songs and stories into this book, which offers an exciting, entertaining and eye-opening glimpse into our long lost maritime past."--Provided by the publisher. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 784.4

Material cultures, 1740-1920 : the meanings and pleasures of collecting /edited by John Potvin and Alla Myzelev. Interweaving considerations of identity and subjectivity, spatial contexts, materiality and meaning, this collection makes a significant contribution to debates around the status and interpretation of visual and material culture. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 379.824

Joint conference of the British Society for the History of Science and the Past and Present Society on the patronage of science in the nineteenth century : conference papers. British Society for the History of Science. 1972] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 351.854:5"18"

The optical munitions industry in Great Britain, 1888-1923 / Stephen C. Sambrook. "The story of the optical munitions industry embraces not only entrepreneurship and invention, but also aspects of military technology and international politics. Running counter to the general decline of technological industries in post-Victorian Britain, optical munitions provides an important, previously overlooked, study into the business of manufacturing."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.94"19/20"

A Cumberland endeavour : Hine Brothers of Maryport :the people, the ships and the town /Ian Hine. The author traces the story of the Hine Brothers of Maryport, a shipping company founded and run by Wilfred and Alfred Hine in the latter half of the 19th century. The book details the important events in the Hine family alongside the development of the company and includes black and white photographs of important family occasions. It includes examples of the exploits of some of the captains and crews and the development of Maryport itself, through the Victorian era until just before the First World War. The chapters give a chronological account of the company, the family and the town from 'The Beginnings', 'Growth and Development: 1873-1881' to 'The Gathering Storm: 1906' and 'The End of the Line'. Included is an alphabetical list of the company fleet, together with black and white photographs of the ships. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792HINE BROTHERS

Sailing for the Empire : the life of Admiral Sir John Corbett in letters and paintings. "This is the first major account of an important part of the life of the naval officer who rose to be the eminent Admiral Sir John Corbett, KCB, (1822-1893) and became Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies and at the Nore. He played significant roles in the expansion and management of the British Empire and ending the slave trade. His exploits are visually captured by the full-colour and black and white illustrations, many from his own skilled sketches and paintings. Corbett's informative detailed letters in particular provide an important insight into life in the Victorian navy in many parts of the world, and how senior officers recorded and communicated their experiences."-- 2024. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Walter Langley : from Birmingham to Newlyn /Roger Langley. "This is a revised and rewritten edition, with many new illustrations, of the study first published in 1997. It provides nique insights into the Newlyn art colony and the world of the Victorian professional artist. Langley was a pioneer of the remarkable colony of artists drawn to the south-west corner of Cornwall in the 1880s. Working mainly in watercolour, and a sympathetic and unsentimental recorder of the hard lives of the Newlyn fisherfolk, Langley made his name especially through a series of memorably dramatic watercolour and oil paintings. Included in this new edition are also examples of the artist's powerful charcoal drawings. As well as high drama, Langley was the chronicler of the simple, everyday scene in Cornwall, the Midlands, Brittany and Holland. Above all, he is a rival to Stanhope Forbes for the title 'father of the Newlyn colony', but unlike Forbes he did not leave a substantial body of writing or correspondence to advance such a claim. New to this edition are profiles of friends and colleagues from Birmingham who painted in Cornwall including Edwin Harris and William Wainwright."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7LANGLEY

Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle and steamers of the River Dart / Richard Clammer and Alan Kittridge. "The Dartmouth built Kingswear Castle of 1924 is the last in a line of purpose built river Dart paddle steamers stretching back to the middle of the nineteenth-century. Her Cornish steam engines date from her predecessor namesake of 1904 and her design evolved from successive Victorian paddle steamers of the River Dart Steamboat Co. Ltd. Since 1967 the Kingswear Castle has been owned by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, who also own the sea going Firth of Clyde paddle steamer Waverley. Following a move to the south east of England in 1970 the Kingswear Castle was restored to full passenger service on the rivers Medway and Thames in 1985, in which waters she plied successfully for nearly thirty years. In 2012 a long term charter was agreed with the Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Company to operate the paddle steamer back in her 'home' waters of the river Dart and in the following March she once again entered service on the very river she was specifically designed to ply. This book tells the story of Kingswear Castle: her origins through successive paddle steamers on the river Dart; the history of her first owner - the River Dart Steamboat Co Ltd; her preservation and operation in the south east; and her triumphant return to the river Dart."--Provided by the publisher. 2013 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.21(423.5)

The beachman's coast Suffolk : coastal communities and their boats /Robert Simper. "This book is Robert?s fortieth and is a record of the men and the boats that worked off the open beaches of Suffolk. Aldeburgh, Southwold and Lowestoft were the main beach landings but there were sixteen places where boats were once worked off a beach. Most of the boats were used for fishing but in the nineteenth century, there were also yawls operated by the Beach Companies that were the fastest work-boats in the British Isles. The golden period for beachmen was in the mid-Victorian period and there was a mini boom in inshore fishing in the 1960-70s. In 1900 there had been many hundreds of boats working from Suffolk beaches and by 2015 there were just five. By this time wooden boats had given way to high-speed fibreglass boats."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.618.2

The Arctic in the British imagination 1818-1914 "The Arctic and the accounts of its exploration and heroes fascinated people in Victorian Britain. But how was this distant region represented to them? Which stories had lasting appeal and which were soon forgotten? How were the indigenous people represented, and what difficulties confronted the artist, photographer and engraver in depicting the Arctic? How and why did the images and forms of representation change during the nineteenth century? As Robert David tells us in this fascinating book, Britain's imagined Arctic was created through a staggering variety of representations: from travel narratives to works of art and panoramas, from museum displays, tableaux vivants, and international exhibitions, to engravings in the illustrated press, as well as lectures organised by the geographical societies, school text books and adventure stories for children. There were also numerous cartoons, advertisements and board games, all of which fed the obsession. In this epic study of so many forms of representation over an extended time span, David has been able to reassess the whole nature of Arctic representation and how it changed in importance over time. Using this rich material in illuminating new ways, he argues that Arctic representations followed a different dynamic from those associated with more familiar locations of Empire, and so opens up a whole new area of study and discussion."--Provided by the publisher. 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 001.9:910.4(98)"1818/1914"

Never to sail in her : Victoria & Albert III, Queen Victoria's last Royal Yacht /Mike Keulemans. "In the days when Britannia ruled the waves, arguably from the mid-18th Century, Britain had established a naval hegemony that was to remain unrivalled until the 1920s. As a result of the rich pickings afforded the academic or enthusiast, a significant proportion of the ships that had fought to achieve and represent the nation's maritime superiority are well recorded, indeed some of these vessels, perhaps most notably H.M.S. Victory,a re preserved to this day. By the mid 1800s, Heads of State of maritime, and quite a few not so maritime, nations would vie with each other to build bigger, faster and more opulent Royal or State Yachts. Perhaps because we did not feel the need, with a Royal Navy that was the envy of the world, Britain's dominance of the oceans saw our Royal Yachts somewhat less ostentatious than many others. They were reflective of the whims of the Monarchy and embodied British inventiveness and technology, evidencing the industrial progress of our small island nation that, towards the end of the Victorian era, was building over 60% of the world's ships. One important vessel which to date has largely avoided the chronicler's attention is the Royal Yacht VIctoria & Albert III. Here that omission is put to rights."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. txt

Darwin : for the love of science /edited by Andrew Kelly and Melanie Kelly. "Darwin: For the Love of Science brings together a collection of specially commissioned essays to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin, one of the world's greatest scientists. Contributors include Brian Dolan on the fascinating connections between the Darwin and Wedgwood families, Marcus Waithe on Darwin as a travel writer, and Keith Ward and A C Grayling on whether a belief in Darwinism is compatible with a belief in God."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 910.4(100)"1831/1836"

A thousand years of Aberdeen / Alexander Keith. Keith, Alexander, 1972. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.125

David Livingstone and Africa : proceedings of a seminar held on the occasion of the centenary of the death of David Livingstone at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh 4th and 5th May 1973. 1973. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(6)

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