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The unsettling of Europe : how migration reshaped a continent /Peter Gatrell "Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in recent years. But as we consider the current refugee crisis, acclaimed historian Peter Gatrell reminds us that the history of Europe has always been one of people on the move. The end of World War II left Europe in a state of confusion with many Europeans virtually stateless. Later, as former colonial states gained national independence, colonists and their supporters migrated to often-unwelcoming metropoles. The collapse of communism in 1989 marked another fundamental turning point. Gatrell places migration at the center of post-war European history, and the aspirations of migrants themselves at the center of the story of migration. This is an urgent history that will reshape our understanding of modern Europe."-- 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 304.8/4

Hostages to fortune : Winston Churchill and the loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse. /Arthur Nicholson ; foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Leach. Nicholson, Arthur. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545941

Empire Javelin, D-Day assault ship : the British vessel that landed the US 116th infantry on Omaha Beach /Philip Kay-Bujak. "Empire Javelin an American-built LSI (Landing Ship, Infantry) in Royal Navy service, played an important role on D-Day. She carried A Company 116th RCT (the famous 'Bedford' Boys') across the Channel and her landing craft put them ashore on Dog Green sector as part of the initial assault or 'suicide wave', onto Omaha beach. In telling her story, Philip Kay-Bujak does justice to the contribution of the Royal Navy at Omaha Beach, which has been underappreciated in the past (when directing Saving Private Ryan, Stephen Spielberg notoriously said there was no British involvement). Drawing heavily on first-hand accounts, the author covers the actions of the ship herself and of the landing craft launched from her in great detail. One third of her landing craft were lost in the first wave alone. He also reveals Empire Javelin's earlier life, from design and construction, through launch and training. Similarly, he relates her service after that fateful day in June 1944, when she continued to ferry troops across the Channel for several months. The events surrounding her sinking in December 1944, either by U-boat or a mine, while laden with troops, are also fully examined. The author's skilful narrative is supported by archive photos, the whole forming a fitting testament to the contribution of Empire Javelin and ships like her, which, though less glamorous than battleships and destroyers, played a vital role in Operation Overlord and the liberation of Europe."--Provided by the publisher.' 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.5421421

Nation on board : becoming Nigerian at sea /Lynn Schler. ''In the 1940s, British shipping companies began the large-scale recruitment of African seamen in Lagos. On colonial ships, Nigerian sailors performed menial tasks for low wages and endured discrimination as cheap labor, while countering hardships by nurturing social connections across the black diaspora. Poor employment conditions stirred these seamen to identify with the nationalist sentiment burgeoning in postwar Nigeria, while their travels broadened and invigorated their cultural identities. Working for the Nigerian National Shipping Line, they encountered new forms of injustice and exploitation. When mismanagement, a lack of technical expertise, and pillaging by elites led to the NNSL?s collapse in the early 1990s, seamen found themselves without prospects. Their disillusionment became a broader critique of corruption in postcolonial Nigeria. In Nation on Board: Becoming Nigerian at Sea, Lynn Schler traces the fate of these seamen in the transition from colonialism to independence. In so doing, she renews the case for labor history as a lens for understanding decolonization, and brings a vital transnational perspective to her subject. By placing the working-class experience at the fore, she complicates the dominant view of the decolonization process in Nigeria and elsewhere.''--Provided by the publisher. [2016] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.509669

East India patronage and the British state : the Scottish elite and politics in the eighteenth century /George K. McGilvary. The author explores the role of patronage in the East India Company from the 1720s to the 1770s, focusing on the appointment of Scots to key positions within the Company and its shipping. As a result, the author seeks to demonstrate the extent to which the Company contributed to the political, economic and social development of Scotland and as a result ensured political stability and support for the Union of the Scottish and English Parliaments which had taken place in 1707. An appendix includes a select list of Scottish providers and recipients of patronage between 1720 and 1779 organised by name and showing brief details of their role. c2008. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 347.71EAST INDIA

Conservation Bulletin : issue 58, summer 2008 Merwe, Pieter van der 2008. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 725(421.6)

Into rough seas / Paul Howe. Memoir by Paul Howe recounting his time in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, after joining as a recruit at the age of 19. Howe describes events and daily life during his training in HMS Glendower and Whale Island, and his service in the destroyer HMS Airedale on the coast of Africa and in the Mediterranean, including substantial combat action, and particularly the dramatic sinking of the ship in 1942. Includes black and white photographs throughout, and several of the author's original paintings. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HOWE

The war for England's shores : S-Boats and the fight against British coastal convoys /G. H. Bennett. "The War for England's Shores examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British (later Allied) responses to nullify that threat. Swift, and armed with torpedoes and mines, the S-Boats posed a serious threat to Britain's very survival, yet through painful evolution the British found a way to defend and deliver safely some 30 million tons of coal and general cargo through the narrow seas. Despite the potentially devastating consequences of this campaign against Britain's coastal trade it has been largely, and surprisingly, overlooked by historians. Using an array of archival materials from Britain, Germany and the United States, The War for England's Shores examines why the Germans failed to make the most of this opportunity to disrupt the British war economy. The author analyses how the British slowly nullified the threat by embracing new technologies and developing a system of sea control to gradually force the German S-Boat arm to transition from offensive action against Britain's coastal convoys to the defensive posture of waiting for the invasion of France."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545943

Tower of skulls : a history of the Asia-Pacific war, July 1937-May 1942 /Richard B. Frank. "Beginning with China's long-neglected years of heroic, costly resistance, Tower of Skulls explodes outward to campaigns including Singapore, the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, India, and Burma, as well as across the Pacific to Pearl Harbour. These pages cast penetrating light on how struggles in Europe and Asia merged into a tightly entwined global war. They feature not just battles, but also the sweeping political, econmic, and social effects of the war, and are graced with a rich tapestry of individual characters from top-tier political and military figures down to ordinary servicemen, as well as the accounts of civilians of all races and ages."-- [2020-] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.54/25

Maritime history as world history Finamore, Daniel 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.9(26)

The sublime in the visual culture of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt. "Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as "being of an orderly and diligent position" and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history"-- 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 701/.03

Collins Spanish dictionary HarperCollins Publishers 2000 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 030.8Spanish

The windfall battleships : Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle and the Balkan & Latin-American arms races /Aidan Dodson "This book explores for the first time the full story of how two Turkish and two Chilean battleships became British capital ships after the outbreak of the First World War. Under construction by the shipbuilding giants of Armstrong and Vickers in August 1914, Sultan Osman I, Resadiye, Almirante Latorre and Almirante Cochrane became HM Ships Agincourt, Erin, Canada and Eagle. The first three served with the Grand Fleet, fighting at Jutland, while the last was transformed into a pioneering aircraft carrier, which would serve with distinction until sunk while escorting a convoy to Malta in 1942. Almirante Latorre was returned to Chile after the war, for a second career and when finally towed away for scrap in 1959, she was the penultimate survivor of Jutland. The book begins with an overview of the warships under construction around Europe for foreign customers in August 1914, and how the four ships featured were acquired by the Royal Navy. It then looks at them as manifestations of the international rivalries which directed much of the national budgets of impecunious South American and Balkan states towards armaments. Focus then switches to the three battleships in British service, and the fourth ship, never finished as a battleship, which played suck a crucial role in the development of British carrier aviation. Finally, it traces the stories of the battleships of the Latin-American naval race from the 1920s down to the 1950s. The stories and back-stories of Agincourt, Erin, Canada and Eagle embrace almost the whole of the twentieth-century battleship era, and they take us down the byways of the naval export trade, of international naval power, ranging from the Pacific to the Black Sea, and from the line of battle to mutiny and revolution."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.8352

Port towns and urban cultures : international histories of the waterfront, c.1700-2000 /Brad Beaven, Karl Bell, Robert James, editors. "Despite the port's prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book, the product of international scholarship, offers innovative and challenging perspectives on the cultural histories of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this important collection explore two key themes; the nature and character of 'sailortown' culture and port-town life, and the representations of port towns that were forged both within and beyond urban-maritime communities. The book's exploration of port town identities and cultures, and its use of a rich array of methodological approaches and cultural artefacts, will make it of great interest to both urban and maritime historians. It also represents a major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary field of coastal studies."--Provided by the publisher. [2016] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.1/09

Men at war : loving, lusting, fighting, remembering, 1939-1945 /Luke Turner. "A radical blend of history, memoir and biography that looks beyond the jingoistic myths of heroes and villains and 'plucky Britain' surviving on 'Blitz spirit' alone to reveal a much more nuanced portrait of the multitude of men who served in the Second World War. As a child, Luke Turner was obsessed with the Second World War. He spent hours watching Sunday war films, poring over stories of derring-do and relishing in birthday trips to air museums. Lying in bed beneath Airfix fighter planes suspended from his ceiling, he would think about the men that might sit in their cockpits, and whether he could ever be one of them. Now, as an adult who has come to terms with a masculine identity and sexuality that is often erased from dominant military narratives, he undertakes a refreshingly honest analysis of his fascination with the war. In Men at War, Turner looks beyond the increasingly retrogressive and jingoistic ideal of a Britain that never was to recognise men of war as creatures of love, fear, hope and desire. From writers, filmmakers, artists and ordinary men - including those in his own family - Turner assembles a broad cast of characters to bring the war to life. There are conscientious objectors, a bisexual Commando, a pacifist poet who flew for Bomber Command, a transgender RAF pilot, a soldier who suffered in Japanese POW camps and later in life became an LGBT+ activist, and those who simply did what they could just to survive and return home to a complicated peace. As the conflict moves beyond living memory and the last veterans leave us, we are in danger of missing the opportunity to gain a true understanding of this rich history. By exploring a wartime experience that embraces sex, lust and the body as much as tactics and weaponry, Turner argues that the only way we can really understand the Second World War is to get to grips with the complexity of the lives and identities of those who fought and endured it."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.530922

Report from the Select Committee on the National Maritime Museum Bill together with the proceedings of the Committee and the minutes of evidence Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the National Maritime Museum Bill 1934. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.

Dynasty of engineers : the Stevensons and the Bell Rock /Roland Paxton. This book provides a series of eight biographies of prominent members of the Stevenson family who largely worked as civil engineers between the 18th and 20th centuries, including Robert Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson, particularly in reference to their contributions to the design, construction and maintenance of lighthouses around the UK. It also includes a detailed account of the construction of the famous Bell Rock lighthouse compiled from primary sources, and a chronology of lighthouses associated with the Stevenson family. Numerous black and white and colour images throughout. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92STEPHENSON

Big guns in the Atlantic : Germany's battleships and cruisers raid the convoys, 1939-41 /Angus Konstam. "At the outbreak of World War II the German Kriegsmarine still had a relatively small U-boat arm. To reach Britain's convoy routes in the North Atlantic, these boats had to pass around the top of the British Isles - a long and dangerous voyage to their "hunting grounds". Germany's larger surface warships were much better suited to this kind of long-range operation. So, during late 1939 the armoured cruiser Deutschland, and later the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were used as commerce raiders, to strike at Allied convoys in the North Atlantic. These sorties met with mixed results, but for Germany's naval high command they showed that this kind of operation had potential. Then, the fall of France, Denmark and Norway in early 1940 dramatically altered the strategic situation. The Atlantic was now far easier to reach, and to escape from. During 1940, further moderately successful sorties were made by the cruisers Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper. By the end of the year, with British mercantile losses mounting to surface raiders and U-Boats, plans were developed for a much larger raid, first using both cruisers, and then the two battlecruisers. The climax of this was Operation Berlin, the Kriegsmarine's largest and most wide-ranging North Atlantic sortie so far. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau remained at sea for two months, destroying 22 Allied merchant ships, and severely disrupting Britain's lifeline convoys. So, when the operation ended, the German commander, Admiral Lèutjens was ordered to repeat his success - this time with the brand new battleship Bismarck. The rest, as they say, is history. These earlier Atlantic raids demonstrated that German surface ships could be highly effective commerce raiders. For those willing to see though, they also demonstrated just how risky this strategy could be. Covering a fascinating and detailed analysis of the Kriegsmarine's Atlantic raids between 1939 and 1941, this book will appeal to readers interested in World War II and in particular in Germany's naval operations." --Amazon.com. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545943

World data center-A for solid earth geophysics : a report on geomagnetic observatories and observations, 1994 McLean, S.J. 1994 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 520.1

Britain and the ocean road : shipwrecks and people, 1297-1825 /Ian Friel. "Britain and the Ocean Road uses new firsthand research and unconventional interpretations to take a fresh look at British maritime history in the age of sail. The human stories of eight shipwrecks serve as waypoints on the voyage, as the book explores how and why Britain became a global sea power. Each chapter has people at its heart - sailors, seafaring families, passengers, merchants, pirates, explorers, and many others. The narrative encompasses an extraordinary range of people, ships and events, such as a bloody maritime civil war in the 13th century, a 17th-century American teenager who stepped from one ship to another - and into a life of piracy, a British warship that fought at Trafalgar (on the French side), and the floating hell of a Liverpool slave-ship, sunk in the year before the slave trade was abolished. The book is full of surprising details and scenes, including England's rudest and crudest streetname, what it was like to be a passenger in a medieval ship (take a guess), how a fragment of the English theatre reached the Far East during Shakespeare's lifetime, who forgave who after a deadly pirate duel, why there were fancy dress parties in the Arctic, and where you could get the best herring. Britain and the Ocean Road is the first of two works aimed at introducing a general audience to the gripping (and at times horrifying) story of Britain, its people and the sea. The books will also interest historians and archaeologists, as they are based on original scholarship. The second book, Black Oil on the Waters, will take the story from the age of steam to the 21st century."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00941

Calendars in the making : the origins of calendars from the Roman Empire to the later Middle Ages /edited by Sacha Stern. "Calendars in the Making investigates the origins of calendars we are most familiar with today, yet whose early histories, in the Roman and medieval periods, are still shrouded in obscurity. It examines when the seven-day week was standardized and first used for dating and time reckoning, in Jewish and other constituencies of the Roman Empire; how the Christian liturgical calendar was constructed in early medieval Europe; and how and when the Islamic calendar was instituted. The volume includes studies of Roman provincial calendars, medieval Persian calendar reforms, and medieval Jewish calendar cycles. Edited by Sacha Stern, it presents the original research of a team of leading experts in the field. [...] Contributors are: Franðcois de Blois, Ilaria Bultrighini, Sacha Stern, Johannes Thomann, Nadia Vidro, Immo Warntjes."-- [2021] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 529/.3094

The convoy : HG-76, taking the fight to Hitler's U-boats /Angus Konstam. "Drawing on reports and accounts from both sides, award-winning historian Angus Konstam vividly describes the epic battle that enveloped HG-76 as it headed through the Atlantic. The Convoy combines the story of the technical and tactical developments that won the Battle of the Atlantic for the Allies along with a narrative that reveals both the terror and the stubborn determination that defined the experiences of those that served on convoy duties."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.54/293

Belle Isle en-mer Plisson, Philip 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 379.85(441.1/.5)

Always at sea / Mary Wardle. An autobiography of Merchant Navy sailor William Donald, assembled from his extensive diary by his daughter Mary Wardle. The book focuses on the period from 1912, when Donald was apprenticed aged 14 to Anchor Line, to the end of the Second World War, and includes colourful descriptions of day-to-day life and service on Merchant Navy vessels during war and peacetime, and accounts of Donald's various officer examinations and promotion to master. Includes black and white ship illustrations by Donald throughout. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92DONALD

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