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Springboard to victory : Great Yarmouth and the Royal Navy's dominance in the North Sea and the Baltic during the French Wars 1793-1815 /David Higgins. "Great Yarmouth is best known for being a seaside resort and for its former status as the country's leading herring fishing port, but what has largely been forgotten is that during the French Revolutionary War (1793-1802) and the two Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) it was the main support base for naval and military operations in the North Sea and the Baltic. It was not until I researched a book called The Beachmen that I became aware of this dramatic period in the history of the town and the nation and I was surprised to find that nothing substantial had been written on the subject. Of course, a great many books had been produced on the navy's involvement in these wars, but most concentrated on the high drama of the six major fleet actions and the exploits of Horatio Nelson rather than the equally important, but more mundane, means by which the navy's warships were kept at sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Condemned : the transported men, women and children who built Britain's empire /Graham Seal. "A tremendously powerful account, told through individual stories, of how forced migration was fundamental to the British empire. The cruel system of transportation has a long history. In the early 1600s, Elizabeth Wynn was imprisoned for robbery, marked as colonialist property and shipped overseas. In the eighteenth century, petty thieves like Charlotte Badger were sent to outposts in Australia and America and there put to work. Even as recently as the 1940s, 'superfluous' or unwanted children such as four-year-old Marcelle O'Brien were sent to institutions in Australia, where they were vulnerable to abuse. Drawing on first-hand accoutns, letters and official documents, Graham Seal uncovers the traumatic struggles of individuals shipped around the empire. He shows how the earliest large-scale kidnapping and transportation of children to the American colonies was quickly bolstered with shipments of the poor, criminal and rebellious to different continents. From Asia to Africa, this global trade in forced labour allowed Britain to build its colonies while turning a considerable profit. Over the course of 400 years, Britain transported over 376,000 unwanted citizens beyond its shores. Revelatory and often moving, Condemned brings to light the true extent of this brutal element in the history of the British empire."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 364.6/80941

New crusade : the Royal Navy and British navalism, 1884-1914 /Bradley Cesario. "The period between the mid-1880s and the First World War was the high point of the navalist movement - but the idea of 'navalism' took many forms, and meant different problems and different solutions to various groups within British society and the British government. New Crusade examines one form of the British navalist movement: directed navalism. As opposed to the broader cultural conception of British naval power, directed navalism consisted of a cooperative, symbiotic working relationship between three elite and self-selecting groups: serving naval officers (professionals), naval correspondents and editors working for national newspapers and periodicals (press), and members of Parliament who dealt with naval issues (politicians). Directed navalism meant agitation for a specific, achievable goal. It was the bedrock upon which the more popular and ultimately more successful cultural navalism of fleet reviews and music halls was built. Though directed navalism collapsed before the First World War, it was extraordinarily successful in its time, and it was a necessary precursor for the creation of a national discourse in which cultural navalism could thrive. Its rise and fall is the story of this book."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00941

Silver State dreadnought : the remarkable story of Battleship Nevada /Stephen M. Younger. "USS Nevada (BB-36) was America's first modern battleship. When its keel was laid in 1912, kings and emperors still ruled much of the world. When it finally slipped beneath the waves in 1948, America was the undisputed global superpower. Nevada was revolutionary for its time: the first "superdreadnought"; the first US warship to be oil fired; the first to have a triple-gun main turret; and the first to have all-or-nothing armor. In World War I, it was based in Queenstown, Ireland, to provide protection for American convoys bringing troops to Europe. The only battleship to get underway at Pearl Harbor, it suffered damage from Japanese bombs and torpedoes and sank in shallow water. Raised and repaired, it did convoy duty in the North Atlantic before joining the invasion fleet for D-Day and the landings in Southern France. Shifting to the Pacific, Nevada provided bombardment support at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The end of the war saw it outgunned and outmoded, but its contributions were not over. In 1946, it survived not one but two atomic tests, the second of which left the battleship too radioactive for scrapping. On a sunny day in 1948, Nevada was towed off the coast of Oahu and used for target practice. The ship died a warrior's death."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.3/252

A biographical dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714-1820 / David Alexander. "This biographical dictionary of engravers working on copper encompasses both those who produced fine art prints, and also those who engraved book illustrations for medical, technical and literary works, all of which played a more important part than is usually realised in spreading information in the age of Enlightenment. Some 4,000 biographical entries draw on much unpublished information, researched over four decades, notably records of apprenticeship, genealogy, insurance and bankruptcy as well as newspaper advertisements and contemporary accounts.0 This is the first reference work to cover all engravers working on copper in Britain and Ireland 1714-1820. Many biographical entries describe celebrated engravers producing "fine art" prints of paintings, which spread knowledge about living and dead artists. However, this book also builds up a more complex picture of the occupation of printmaking and includes engravers, many previously unresearched, who engraved ephemeral material, such as trade cards, bank notes, and satirical prints as well as the images that spread knowledge across literary, geographical, historical, topographical, medical and technical fields."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 769.92

English maritime writing : Hakluyt to Cook Warner, Oliver 1958 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 910.4:820-3

Ancient skins, parchments and leathers Reed, R 1972 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 675(3)

John Harrison and his timekeepers / Gould, Rupert T. 1958. Gould, Rupert Thomas, 1958 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 528.282

Seventeenth century practical mathematics : navigation by Greenvill Collins /Paul Hughes. "This exciting Greenvill Collins biography is about seventeenth century navigation, focusing for the first time on mathematics practised at sea. This monograph argues the Restoration kings', Charles II and James II, promotion of cartography for both strategy and trade. It is aimed at the academic, cartographic and larger market of marine enthusiasts. Through shipwreck and Arctic marooning, and Dutch and Spanish charts, Collins evolved a Prime Meridian running through Charles's capital. After John Ogilby's successful Britannia, Charles set Collins surveying his kingdom's coasts, and James set John Adair surveying in Scotland. They triangulated at sea. Subsequently, Collins persuaded James to sustain his dead brother's ambition. This, the British coast's first survey took six years. After James's flight, and William III's invasion, Collins lead the royal yacht squadron for six years more, garnering funds to publish Great Britain's Coasting Pilot. The Admiralty and civic institutions subsidised what became his own pilot. Collins aided Royal Society members in their investigations, and his new guide remained vital to navigators through the century following. Charles's cartographic promotion bloomed the most spectacularly in the atlases of Ogilby, Collins and John Flamsteed for roads, harbours, and stars"--Provided by publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 526.9/90941

The box that changed the world : fifty years of container shipping - an illustrated history /Arthur Donovan and Joseph Bonney. "Malcom McLean had a simple idea: Use a standard-sized metal box to ove cargo by land and sea. On April 26, 1956, he loaded his first boxes aboard the converted tanker Ideal X. It was an event that changed the world. McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was not the first to move containers by sea. But he was the first to turn the concept into an enduring industry. Fifty years after the first voyage of the Ideal X, containerised shipping has transformed the world's economy by providing a protective, efficient way to transport everything, from shoes to bananas to big-screen TVs. The Box That Changed The World traces the growth of this often overlooked industry and the stories of the people who made it happen."--Provided by the publisher. 2006. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 387.245

The marine turbine : a historical review by a Swedish engineer /by Ingvar Jung. Jung, Ingvar. 1987. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 621.125

Madhouse at the end of the Earth : the Belgica's journey into the dark Antarctic night /Julian Sancton. "August 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the South Pole. But the ship soon became stuck fast in the ice of the Bellinghausen sea, condemning the ship's crew to overwintering in Antarctica and months of endless polar night. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness, their minds ravaged by the sound of dozens of rats teeming in the hold, they descended into madness. In this epic tale, Julian Sancton unfolds a story of adventure gone horribly awry. As the crew teetered on the brink, the Captain increasingly relied on two young officers whose friendship had blossomed in captivity - Dr. Frederick Cook, the wild American whose later infamy would overshadow his brilliance on the Belgica; and the ship's first mate, soon-to-be legendary Roald Amundsen, who later raced Captain Scott to the South Pole. Together, Cook and Amundsen would plan a last-ditch, desperate escape from the ice-one that would either etch their names into history or doom them to a terrible fate in the frozen ocean. Drawing on first-hand crew diaries and journals, and exclusive access to the ship's logbook, the result is equal parts maritime thriller and gothic horror. This is an unforgettable journey into the deep."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 919.8904

In the blood of our brothers : abolitionism and the end of the slave trade in Spain's Atlantic empire, 1800-1870 /Jesâus Sanjurjo. "Throughout the nineteenth century, very few people in Spain campaigned to stop the slave trade and did even less to abolish slavery. Even when some supported abolition, the reasons that moved them were not always humanitarian, liberal, or egalitarian. How abolitionist ideas were received, shaped, and transformed during this period has been ripe for study. Jesâus Sanjurjo?s In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain?s Atlantic Empire, 1800?1870 provides a comprehensive theory of the history, the politics, and the economics of the persistence and growth of the slave trade in the Spanish empire even as other countries moved toward abolition. Sanjurjo privileges the central role that British activists and diplomats played in advancing the abolitionist cause in Spain. In so doing, he brings to attention the complex and uneven development of abolitionist and antiabolitionist discourses in Spain?s public life, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the transatlantic trade. His delineation of the ideological and political tension between Spanish liberalism and imperialism is crucial to formulating a fuller explanation of the reasons for the failure of anti?slave trade initiatives from 1811 to the 1860s. Slave trade was tied to the notion of inviolable property rights, and slavery persisted and peaked following three successful liberal revolutions in Spain."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209809034

The Hattendorf Prize lectures : Volume 1, 2011-2019 /edited by Evan Wilson. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Os descobrimentos portugueses e a Europa do Renascimento : cumpriu-se o mar ; as navegacoes portuguesas e as suas consequencias no renascimento /editor: Presidencia do Conselho de Ministros. 1983. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Under pressure : living life and avoiding death on a nuclear submarine /Richard Humphreys. "Imagine a world without natural light, where you can barely stand up straight for fear of knocking your head, where you have no idea of where in the world you are or what time of day it is, where you sleep in a coffin-sized bunk and sometimes eat a full roast for breakfast. Now imagine sharing that world with 140 other sweaty bodies, crammed into a 430ft x 33ft steel tube, 300ft underwater, for up to 90 days at a time, with no possibility of escape. And to top it off, a sizeable chunk of your living space is taken up by the most formidably destructive nuclear weapons history has ever known. This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure. As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the submarine service in 1985 and went on to serve aboard the nuclear deterrent for five years at the end of the Cold War. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. Aside from the claustrophobia and disorientation, there were the prolonged periods of boredom, the constant dread of discovery by the Soviets, and the smorgasbord of rank odours that only a group of poorly-washed and flatulent submariners can unleash. But even in this most pressurised of environments, the consolations were unique: where else could you sit peacefully for hours listening to whale song? Based on first-hand experience, Under Pressure is the candid, visceral and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live, work, sleep, eat - and stay sane - in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.93092

Understanding illuminated manuscripts : a guide to technical terms /Michelle P. Brown. "What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition--part of the popular Looking At series--offers concise definitions of many elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the techniques, processes, materials, terminology, and styles used in the making of these precious books. Updated and refreshed throughout, and beautifully illustrated with images of important manuscript illuminations from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and beyond, this volume is an essential resource for students, scholars, and readers who wish a deeper understanding and enjoyment of illuminated manuscripts and medieval book production."--Provided by the publisher. .2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 745.6/703

NATO : facts and figures /NATO Information Service, Brussels. NATO Information Service. 1971. • BOOK • 1 copy available. PBB2388

The Black loyalists : the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 /by James W. St. G. Walker. "There is a Canadian myth about the Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution for Canada. The myth says they were white, upper-class citizens devoted to British ideals, transplanting the best of colonial American society to British North America. In reality, more than 10 per cent of the Loyalists who came to the Maritime provinces were black and had been slaves. The Black Loyalists tells the story of one such group who came to Nova Scotia, but didn't stay. James Walker documents their experience in Canada, following them across the Atlantic as they became part of a unique colonial experiment in Sierra Leone."--Provided by the publisher. 1976. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 971.024

Creating exhibits that engage : a manual for museums and historical organizations /John Summers. "Creating Exhibits that Engage: A Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations is a concise, useful guide to developing effective and memorable museum exhibits. The book is full of information, guidelines, tips, and concrete examples drawn from the author's years of experience as a curator and exhibit developer in the United States and Canada. Is this your first exhibit project? You will find step-by-step instructions, useful advice and plenty of examples. Are you a small museum or local historical society looking to improve your exhibits? This book will take you through how to define your audience, develop a big idea, write the text, manage the budget, design the graphics, arrange the gallery, select artifacts, and fabricate, install and evaluate the exhibit. Are you a museum studies student wanting to learn about the theory and practice of exhibit development? This book combines both and includes references to works by noted authors in the field. Written in a clear and accessible style, Creating Exhibits that Engage offers checklists of key points at the end of each chapter, a glossary of specialized terms, and photographs, drawings and charts illustrating key concepts and techniques."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069/.5

Lady Franklin's revenge : a true story of ambition, obsession and the remaking of Arctic history /Ken McGoogan. A biography of Lady Jane Franklin (1791-1875), born Jane Griffin, who became the second wife of the English explorer Sir John Franklin. A traveller in her own right, she accompanied her husband when he was posted to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) as Lieutenant Governor and became known for her philanthropic work and travels in south-eastern Australia. With her encouragement, Franklin led an expedition to find the North West Passage in 1845 but the lack of news led her to lobby the Admiralty to mount a number of expeditions to ascertain its fate. Her prolific letter writing and circle of influential political contacts helped to ensure that she could raise the support and sponsorship necessary and that the expedition's fate and her husband were not forgotten. Outraged by explorer John Rae's report and the evidence he obtained from local Inuit which indicated both her husband's death and the suggestion that the crew had resorted to cannibalism in order to survive, Lady Franklin launched a campaign to preserve the reputation of and memorialise her husband. She successfully shifted the narrative around the expedition so that the disaster would become publicly understood as a heroic endeavour and her husband celebrated for the apparent discovery of the North West Passage. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FRANKLIN, JANE GRIFFITH, LADY

Bligh, master mariner / Rob Mundle. A biography of William Bligh (1754-1817) focusing on his naval career and particularly the 3618-mile open boat voyage to Timor undertaken following the mutiny on the Bounty. A list of ships on which Bligh served is provided. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BLIGH

Nelson's surgeon : William Beatty, naval medicine, and the battle of Trafalgar /Laurence Brocklis, John Cardwell and Michael Moss. A biography of William Beatty (1773-1842), chief surgeon on Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship the Victory at the time of Nelson's death. During the course of one afternoon during the Battle of Trafalgar, Beatty had treated 100 of the 820 crew, witnessed the death of his closest friend (Lieutenant William Andrew Ram) and nursed the dying Nelson. Aged 32, this was the first major action in which he had served and in 1807 he published his Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson. After Trafalgar, Beatty continued to have a distinguished career in the naval medical service, eventually becoming physician to the Greenwich Hospital, an FRS, a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, and was knighted in 1831. As well as the biographical content, the authors describe the context and role of naval surgeons in the nineteenth century, their education, training and work, and also details of the conditions on board. A partial family tree of the Beatty family is included with the illustrations and diagrams, and there is a detailed bibliography. 2005. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92BEATTY

Grasping the world: the idea of the museum This item is an anthology which explores the idea of the museum and aims to promote a critical, historical and ethical understanding of its origins and history. It is intended to be a resource for students and teachers of art history and museum studies. The anthology contains texts first published in journals and books. The general introduction asks the question: What are Museums For? Other topics covered include: Creating historical effects; Instituting evidence; Building shared imaginaries/effacing otherness; Observing subjects/disciplining practice; Secularizing rituals; Inclusions and exclusions: representing adequately. There is also a chronological index of the texts. 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069.1

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