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Advocates of freedom : African American transatlantic abolitionism in the British Isles /Hannah-Rose Murray. "During the nineteenth century, scores of formerly enslaved individuals like Frederick Douglass traveled to England, Ireland, Scotland and even parts of rural Wales to educate the British public on slavery. By sharing their oratorical, visual and literary testimony to transatlantic audiences, African American women and men were soldiers in the fight for liberty, and as a result their journeys were inevitably and inescapably radical. Their politicized messages and appeals for freedom had severe consequences for former slaveholders, pro-slavery defenders, white racists and ignorant publics: the act of traversing the Atlantic itself highlighted not only their death-defying escapes from bondage but also their desire to speak out against slavery and white supremacy on foreign soil. They traveled thousands of miles, wrote hundreds of letters or narratives and lectured to millions of people, for hours on end. In doing so, they often pushed their bodies (and voices) to breaking point. In this book, I theorize that throughout their journeys to Britain, African Americans engaged in a uniquely British strategy I have termed adaptive resistance, which attempts to measure their success on the Victorian stage by examining their exploitation or relationship with abolitionist networks, print culture and performance"--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326/.808996073041

The Falklands naval campaign 1982 : war in the South Atlantic /Edward Hampshire ; illustrated by Graham Turner. "The Falklands Conflict was remarkable for many reasons: it was a hard fought, bloody and short conflict between a leading NATO power and one of the most capable armed forces in South America; it demonstrated the capabilities of a range of cutting-edge technologies including nuclear-powered attack submarines, Exocet missiles and Sea Harrier VSTOL aircraft; and it was fought many thousands of miles away from the Royal Navy's home bases. In this illustrated study, renowned naval historian Dr Edward Hampshire draws upon the latest available sources to offer a comprehensive examination of the Falklands naval campaign. Blow-by-blow accounts of key engagements, such as the sinking of the General Belgrano, the loss of HMS Sheffield, and the landings at San Carlos Bay, are presented alongside lesser known but equally important naval operations that helped shape the outcome of the conflict."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 997.1102445

The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway : a history of the company and line ; volume 6, the Gravesend Ferry /by Peter Kay. "Work on the history of the ferry was started at the very beginning of the LT&SR project in 1993. It is to be regrettedt however that no work was done on staff and user recollections in the 1990s something that has now almost ceased to tbe possible, at least so far as the ferry's heyday is concerned. On the other hand, if the account had been published in the 1990s it would have been less full and accurate in other ways, so great is the amount of material now accessible via online sources. This volume is intended to be taken in combination with Vol. 5 on Tilbury, however for the benefit of those who interest is 'maritime' or 'Gravesend' only, rather than 'railway', soem effort has been made to include a little background railway history here to make Vol. 6 intelligible on its own. [...] Seeral aspects of the ferry are covered here for the first time, notably: - the Gravesend politics of the 1850s which had so much influence on the way in which the LT&SR was able to take over the ferry - the origins of the West Street site - the LT&SR's use of the Terrace Pier - the true facts about the early railway ferry boats - the long process of debate from 1949 to 1960 on what was to be done about the ferry."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Visualizing empire : Africa, Europe and the politics of representation /edited by Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas. "By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia, France had expanded its dominion to the four corners of the earth. This volume examines how an official French visual culture normalized the country's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects alike to racialized ideas of life in the empire. Essays analyze aspects of colonialism through investigations into the art, popular literature, material culture, film, and exhibitions that represented, celebrated, or were created for France's colonies across the seas. These studies draw from the rich documents and media - photographs, albums, postcards, maps, posters, advertisements, and children's games - related to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century French empire that are held in the Getty Research Institute's Association Connaissance de l'histoire de l'Afrique contemporaine (ACHAC) collections. ACHAC is a consortium of scholars and researchers devoted to exploring and promoting discussions of race, iconography, and the colonial and postcolonial periods of Africa and Europe."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325/.34406

The sun : one thousand years of scientific imagery /Katy Barrett and Harry Cliff. "Dazzling, beautiful, powerful, mysterious - the Sun has fascinated people throghout history. This book charts our changing understanding of the Sun through a rich collection of scientific imagery: from a 10th-century manuscript drawing of an Earth-centred universe, to awe-inspiring close-ups of our turbulent star taken by orbiting spacecraft. Each image tells a story of evolving knowledge and techniques as well as the personal dedication of the theologians, artists and astronomers who made them."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 523.7

Materials of War / WW100 Scotland. "This booklet tells the story of some of the essential materials required for the war effort during World War I. The stories give us insight into the workforce that helped produce the necessary Timber, Ships, Aeroplanes and Munitions - especially women who, from 1914-1918, were directly employed in the war effort for the first time in British history."--Provided by the publisher. [2014?]. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Gale force 10 : the life and legacy of Admiral Beaufort A biography of Francis Beaufort (1774-1857). Beginning his career with the East India Company, Beaufort joined the Royal Navy in 1790 and rose through the ranks, retiring with the rank of Rear Admiral in 1846 at the age of seventy-two. In 1805, Beaufort devised the first objective measure of wind strength, now known as the Beaufort Scale, officially adopted by the Royal Navy on voyages during the 1830s. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1829, was appointed the British Admiralty Hydrographer of the Royal Navy, serving in that position for twenty-six years, and helped to found the Royal Geographical Society. He trained Robert Fitzroy, commander of the Beagle, and in response to Fitzroy's request for a "well-educated and scientific gentleman", Beaufort's enquiries led to Charles Darwin joining the Beagle for her second voyage. Beaufort promoted the publication of reliable tide tables, expanded the British Admiralty Chart Series to some 2000 charts, directed some of the major naval explorations of the time, and played a leading role in the search for the explorer Sir John Franklin. He was knighted in 1848. 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"17/18"

Wilberforce : family and friends /Anne Stott. A study of the abolitionist William Wilberforce concentrating on his private life, his family and the group of Evangelical philanthropists, retrospectively known as the Clapham Sect, who were his friends. Originally located around Clapham Common, the group of friends were associated most closely with the abolition of the slave trade but were also concerned with the moral reformation of society and the extension of Christianity in the British Empire. Largely drawing on family records and the perspective of women in the group, themes considered are those of family, gender, childhood, education, sexuality and intimacy. Focussing on the Wilberforce, Thornton and Macaulay families, family trees illustrate the relationships between the Wilberforce and Thornton families, the Wilberforce, Spooner and Calthorpe families, and the Wilberforce, Bird and Sargent families. A bibliography is provided. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WILBERFORCE

Sj²fartshistorisk êarbok = Norwegian yearbook of maritime history. 1966- • JOURNAL • 1 copy available. 7,22

In Shackleton's wake The story of the author's reenactment of the voyage undertaken by Shackleton and a small crew in the James Caird in 1916 to reach South Georgia and rescue the rest of the crew of the Endurance stranded on Elephant Island. 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123James Caird II

China as a sea power, 1127-1368 : a preliminary survey of the maritime expansion and naval exploits of the Chinese people during the Southern Song and Yuan periods /Lo Jung-pang ; edited, and with commentary, by Bruce A. Elleman. "Lo Jung-pang argues that during each of the three periods when imperial China embarked on maritime enterprises (the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and early Tang dynasties, and Song, Yuan, and early Ming dynasties), coastal states took the initiative at a time when China was divided, maritime trade and exploration subsequently peaked when China was strong and unified, and declined as Chinese power weakened. At such times, China's people became absorbed by internal affairs, and state policy focused on threats from the north and the west. These cycles of maritime activity, each lasting roughly five hundred years, corresponded with cycles of cohesion and division, strength and weakness, prosperity and impoverishment, expansion and contraction. In the early 21st century, a strong and outward looking China is again building up its navy and seeking maritime dominance, with important implications for trade, diplomacy and naval affairs. Events will not necessarily follow the same course as in the past, but Lo Jung-pang's analysis suggests useful questions for the study of events as they unfold and decades to come."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00951

Nelson : a medical casebook /by Ann-Mary E. Hills ; foreword by Colin White. A medical biography of Nelson. This work examines Nelson's ill-health and injuries from a medical perspective and draws on primary sources for clinical material. The author also explores Nelson's mental health, his ancestry and upbringing, and his fatal wounding in detail. An appendix lists the physical signs evident from his portraits and the work is supported by a detailed bibliography. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Nelson

Practical navigation : consisting of The sailor's sea-book ; together with the requisite Mathematical and nautical tables ;by James Greenwood and W. H. Rosser ; by Henry Law, C.E. and J. R. Young. [1907?]. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Nelson in memoriam : a guide to monuments and relics of Lord Nelson /compiled by C. F. Lindsey. Lindsey, C. F. 1976. • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available.

An exhibition of paintings from the collection of Dr. D. M. McDonald / atalogue by Robin Gibson ; foreword by Roy Strong. Gibson, Robin. [1970?]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science : Catalogue 4 spheres, globes & orreries /by Olivia Brown. Brown, Olivia. 1983. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Time in maps : from the Age of Discovery to our digital era /edited by Kèaren Wigen and Caroline Winterer. "Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today's digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kèaren Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 912.09

Paul Gauguin : why are you angry? /editors: Anna Kµrsgaard Gregersen and Anna Manly. "The special exhibition, Paul Gauguin - Why Are You Angry will revisit the story of one of the most mythologised figures in French art, concentrating particularly on the works he created in Tahiti. The exhibition will shed new light on the museum's collection, juxtaposing the works with historical material from both Gauguin's past and his present, and with international contemporary art. The story of Gauguin the 'savage', who in 1891 abandoned Paris, his Danish wife and his five children to pursue a spiritual, artistic journey in the South Pacific, is a highly-prized story in the history of Western art. The Glyptotek challenges this narrative and uses a diverse selection of historical archive material, visual art and literature in a deeper examination of how the works Gauguin created in Tahiti were not an isolated phenomenon, but part of a larger political and cultural landscape. For example, the exhibition will examine how Gauguin's art was influenced by the popularised myth of Tahiti, which had flourished even before Gauguin's departure for the South Pacific, kindled by a century of Western imperialism and cultural history. Exhibition: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (19.11.2020 - 16.05.2021)."--Provided by the publisher. [2020]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 709.04

Mapping the Chinese and Islamic worlds : cross-cultural exchange in pre-modern Asia /Hyunhee Park. "Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural exchanges across the Indian Ocean. This book focuses on the years 700 to 1500, a period when powerful dynasties governed both regions, to document the relationship between the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the arrival of the Europeans. Through a close analysis of the maps, geographic accounts, and travelogues compiled by both Chinese and Islamic writers, the book traces the development of major contacts between people in China and the Islamic world and explores their interactions on matters as varied as diplomacy, commerce, mutual understanding, world geography, navigation, shipbuilding, and scientific exploration. When the Mongols ruled both China and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, their geographic understanding of each other's society increased markedly. This rich, engaging, and pioneering study offers glimpses into the worlds of Asian geographers and mapmakers, whose accumulated wisdom underpinned the celebrated voyages of European explorers like Vasco da Gama."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 526.0950902

Maritime Kent through the ages : gateway to the sea /edited by Stuart Bligh, Elizabeth Edwards, Sheila Sweetinburgh. "Kent, with its long coastline and its important geopolitical position close to London and continental Europe, and on major trading routes between Britain and the wider world, has had a very significant maritime history. This book covers a wide range of topics relating to that history from the earliest times to the present day. It sets Kent's varied coastline and waters in their geological and geographical context, showing how erosion and sediment deposition have contributed to the changing nature of maritime activities and populations. It examines Kent's strategic role in the defence of the country with the development and redevelopment of coastal defences, including four naval dockyards. It goes on to consider the supporting industries which grew up around the coastline, those which supplied raw materials and agricultural products from the county's hinterland, and its wider national and international trading links. It also discusses the diverse coastal communities of Kent and how they have changed in response to the demands of defence, trade, and changing population and migration patterns. In addition, the book includes detailed case studies which explore particular subject areas as exemplars of the major themes covered by the book."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.23

Anson's Navy : building a fleet for empire 1744 to 1763 /Lavery, Brian. "Despite a supreme belief in itself, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share of disasters and miscarriages including the devastating sickness in Admiral Hosier's fleet in 1727; failure at Cartagena, and an embarrassing action off Toulon in 1744. Anson's great circumnavigation, though presented as a triumph, was achieved at huge cost in ships and lives. And in 1756 Admiral Byng was shot after failure off Minorca. In this new book, the bestselling author Brian Lavery shows how, through reforms and the determined focus of a number of personalities, that navy was transformed in the middle years of the eighteenth century. The tide had already begun to turn with victories off Cape Finisterre in 1747, and in 1759 the navy played a vital part in the 'year of victories' with triumphs at Lagos and Quiberon Bay; and it conducted amphibious operations as far afield as Cuba and the Philippines, and took Quebec. The author explains how it was fundamentally transformed from the amateurish, corrupt and complacent force of the previous decades. He describes how it acquired uniforms and a definite rank structure for officers; and developed new ship types such as the 74 and the frigate. It instigated a more efficient (if equally brutal) method of recruiting seamen, and boosted morale and motivation and a far more aggressive style of fighting. The coppering of ships' hulls and the solving of the problems associated with longitude and scurvy, were also hugely significant steps. Much of this transformation was due to the forceful if enigmatic personality of George, Lord Anson. In a largely static society, he changed the navy so that it was fit for purpose, and in readiness for Nelson just decades later. Using a mass of archival evidence and a mix of official reports and personal reminiscences, this book offers a fascinating and engrossing analysis of all these far-reaching reforms, which in turn led to the radical transformation of Britain's navy into a truly global force. The consequential effect on the world's history would be huge."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Science, utility and British naval technology, 1793-1815 : Samuel Bentham and the royal dockyards /Roger Morriss. "During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector General of Naval Works, an Admiralty office occupied by Samuel Bentham between 1796 and 1807, which initiated a range of changes in dockyard technology by the construction of experimental vessels, the introduction of non-recoil armament, the reconstruction of Portsmouth yard, and the introduction of steam-powered engines to pump water, drive mass-production machinery and reprocess copper sheathing. While primarily about the technology, this book also examines the complementary changes in the industrial culture of the dockyards. For it was that change in culture which permitted the dockyards at the end of the Wars to maintain a fleet of unprecedented size and engage in warfare both with the United States of America and with Napoleonic Europe"-- 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623/.64094109034

George Jellicoe : SAS and SBS commander /Nicholas Jellicoe. "George Jellicoe, son of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commander of the British Grand Fleet at Jutland, was never compromised by his privileged upbringing. In this insightful biography, his son describes a life of action, drama, public service and controversy. George's exploits with the newly formed SAS, as David Stirling's second-in-command, and later commanding the SBS, make for fascinating reading. Over four years it embraced the North African and Mediterranean campaigns and culminated in the saving of a newly-liberated Athens from the communist guerrillas of ELAS. The brutality of Stalinist communism led him to join the post-war Foreign Office. In Washington he worked with Kim Philby and Donald Maclean in the cloak and dagger world of espionage. Resigning in 1958 so he could marry the woman he loved, he turned to politics. Although his ministerial career ended in 1973 after unwittingly become entangled with the Lambton scandal, he continued to sit in the House of Lords becoming 'Father of the House'. He held numerous public appointments including President of the Royal Geographical Society, Chairman of the Medical Research Council, President of the SAS Regimental Association and the UK Crete Veterans Association. Thanks to the author's research and access, this is more than a biography of a significant public figure. It provides fascinating detail of Special Forces operations and the characters of the countless figures with whom he mixed."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.085092

Zhongguo gu chuan tushuo ; Illustrations: shipbuilding history of ancient China / by Xi Longfei, Gong Changqi, Cai Wei. Xi, Longfei. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. F426.474-64

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