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Patterns of fashion 1 : Englishwomen's dresses & their construction c.1660-1860 /written and illustrated by Janet Arnold. Arnold, Janet. 1984. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 646/.47

Science and the Canadian Arctic : a century of exploration 1818-1918 /\cTrevor H Levere Levere, Trevor H 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(98)"1818/1918"

Sailors in the dock : naval courts martial down the centuries /Peter C. Smith. Smith, Peter Charles, 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 344.4"15/19"

But no brass funnel / James Douglas Stewart. "Record of a varied career at sea over several decades - from Merchant Navy cadet to tanker captain. A boyhood visit to the battleship HMS Nelson left the author with the ambition to be a midshipman in the Royal Navy and to be in charge of a steam picket-boat with a brass funnel. The author relates how he sent to sea, some of his adventures and experiences ashore and afloat during his 35 years service under the White Ensign and the Red Ensign. Starting as a Merchant Navy cadet in the British India Steam Navigation Company at the start of World War II, he subsequently joined the Royal Navy and progressed from midshipman to lieutenant during ten years of service in eight different classes of warship. Leaving the Royal Navy after the war, he spent several years in various shoreside occupations before returning to seafaring in the Merchant Navy. He joined the fleet of a major oil company as a junior officer and quickly progressed through the ranks until he reached the rank of master, spending many years in command of large crude oil tankers. Although Captain Stewart served in eight classes of warship and many more types of tanker, he never did command a picket boat with a brass funnel."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92STEWART

Sailor in the desert : the adventures of Phillip Gunn, DSM, RN in the Mesopotamia Campaign, 1915 /David Gunn. "Sailor in the Desert is the personal account of a Royal Navy sailor's experiences during the Mesopotamian campaign of 1915. As an able seaman on an armed sloop supporting the British expedition up the River Tigris, Philip Gunn's recollections give a rare perspective of this ill-fated campaign. At the outbreak of war, Phillip Gunn was serving on HMS Clio, a naval sloop fitted with sails and guns stationed in China and immediately tasked with hunting the soon-to-be-famous German cruiser Emden, but failed to prevent her escape. Gunn and Clio were next in action defending the Suez Canal against an attempted Turkish invasion before joining the expedition to invade Turkish-held Mesopotamia (Iraq). When the River Tigris became too shallow for Clio, Gunn took over a Calcutta River Police launch. He towed improvised gunboats to bombard the enemy in close support of the advancing land forces, whose assaults on enemy positions he witnessed. Though he repeatedly came under fire, it was malaria which finally struck him down during the pivotal Battle of Ctesiphon. He was fortunate to survive the journey back downriver. Sailor in the Desert is an authentic account drawn from Phillip Gunn's unpublished memoirs as well as conversations with the author, his son David. It is illustrated with archive photographs and colour paintings by Philip Gunn himself."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92GUNN

Remaking the British Atlantic : the United States and the British Empire after American Independence /P.J. Marshall. "Remaking the British Atlantic focuses on a crucial phase in the history of British-American relations: the first ten years of American Independence. These set the pattern for some years to come. On the one hand, there was to be no effective political rapprochement after rebellion and war. Mainstream British opinion was little influenced by the failure to subdue the revolt or by the emergence of a new America, for which they mostly felt distain. What were taken to be the virtues of the British constitution were confidently reasserted and there was little inclination either to disengage from empire or to manage it in different ways, as is shown in chapters dealing with Britain's continuing imperial commitments around the Atlantic. For their part, many Americans defined the new order that they were seeking to establish by their rejection of what they took to be the abuses of contemporary Britain. On the other hand, neither the trauma of war nor the failure to create harmonious political relations could prevent the re-establishment of the very close links that had spanned the pre-war Atlantic, locking people on both sides of it into close connections with one another. Many British migrants still went to America. Britain remained America's dominant trading partner. American tastes and the intellectual life of the new republic continued to be largely reflections of British tastes and ideas. America and Britain were too important for too many people in too many ways for political alienation to keep them apart."--Publisher's website. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 327(42:73)"1760/1789"

The book of the Cinque ports : their origin and development, heyday and decline Green, Ivan 1984 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.2(422.3/.5)

20th century defences in Britain : Lincolnshire Osbourne, Mike 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.126(425.3)"19"

Secret service : British agents in France, 1792-1815 /Elizabeth Sparrow. Sparrow, Elizabeth-(Elizabeth Mary), 1999. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.402(44)"1792/1815"

Pepys's diary / selected and edited by Robert Latham from the Diary of Samuel Pepys, a new and complete transcription, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews. Pepys, Samuel, 1996. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Pepys(093.32)

Perspectives on object-centered learning in museums / edited by Scott G. Paris. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069.12

Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the age of discovery / Nabil Matar. Presents data about Anglo-Islamic social and historical interactions. This book provides a unique direction in the study of England's geographic imagination. It illuminates the subtleties and interchangeability of stereotype, racism, and demonization that must be taken into account in any depiction of English history. 1999. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4

The Stroudwater and Thames & Severn canals : from old photographs :volume two /Edwin Cuss & Mike Mills. "Since the development of photography in the middle of the last century, the picture of our past provided by the written chronicle, the museum artefact or by failing memory has been augmented by the most vivid and immediate relic of former times, the photograph. Authenticating even as it describes, the photograph is of its time in a way that other representations of the past are not. This photographic journey recalls the final years in the life of the two canals, now being restored by the Cotswold Canals Trust, which once linked England's two longest rivers. With the current interest in reviving former railways and the reclamation of their towpaths as quiet refuges from the mayhem of modern living, there is an undeniable fascination in comparing the lively scene to which the camera has in the past been witness to the present. The Stroud and Golden Valleys were traditionally centres of industry and population, the canals in part responsible for their continued prosperity after changing technologies largely relocated the cloth industry to the north of England, and during the heyday of the picture postcard the wharves and locks were still busy places. Comprising the work of both professionals and gifted amateurs, this enchanting collection follows volume one. It will delight and surprise all those who know the canals today, and fascinate anyone with an interest in our industrial heritage."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 626.1(422/424)

Reports on fires which occurred or were reported on British ships during the period 1st August 1919 and 31st Jule 1920 Great Britain.-Board of Trade 1921. • • 1 copy available. 614.84:629.123 (42)"1919/1920"

The Royal Navy and anti-submarine warfare, 1917-49 / Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones. Llewellyn-Jones, Malcolm 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.983(42)"1917/1949"

The art and history of globes / Sylvia Sumira. This book celebrates the art and history of the globe, focusing on the 400 years when the printed globe - as navigational tool, scientific instrument and powerful status symbol - occupied an important place in the history of European exploration. It ranges from the first globe ever made in China to the desktop models in Victorian schoolrooms, and from celestial globes of the sixteenth century to charming pocket examples produced as educational toys. Featuring sixty examples drawn from collections around the world, this is a major new book on the subject for the general reader and collectors alike, and uses stunning new photography to pick out the revealing details - ships and sea monsters, navigators' tracks and newly found islands, constellations and astronomical features - that help us to understand why globes were made and how they were used.0Published in North and South America by University of Chicago Press as 'Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation and Power.' 2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.951"15/18"

Nimrod illustrated : pictures from Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic expedition /D.M. Wilson. "To celebrate the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration comes "Nimrod Illustrated". The book is a remarkable collage of expedition photographs, paintings and ephemera in a deliberate reminiscence of the expedition scrapbooks kept by so many of the expedition participants at the time. Many of the images are rarely seen, if ever before published, whilst others are better known.Together with quotations from the diaries of expedition participants, they tell the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 which saw the first use of ponies and motor cars in the Antarctic; achieved the first ascent of Mount Erebus; achieved the first attainment of the South Magnetic Pole; and, took Shackleton within 100 miles of the South Geographic Pole to attain a dramatic new 'Farthest South' record. This was the expedition that made Shackleton's name as an explorer and for which he was awarded his knighthood. Edited by Dr. D. M. Wilson, "Nimrod Illustrated" is a treat for anyone interested in Shackleton, the Antarctic, polar exploration or the atmosphere of the Edwardian age. It is a part of the well regarded series commenced with "Discovery Illustrated: Pictures from Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition" (2001)."--Provided by the publisher. c2009. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)"1907/1909"

Prisoners of the Red Desert : the adventures of the crew of the Tara during the First World War /R.S. Gwatkin-Williams "An incredible adventure from the Great War. This is a unique and riveting book. The steamer Tara and her crew spent the early part of WW1 patrolling the Northern Channel between England and Ireland before a transfer to coastal duties off Egypt and Libya. There she was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat operating from a secret base on the Libyan coast. To ensure no intelligence of it's presence leaked to the British, the Germans towed the survivors - including this book's author, the Tara's captain, into captivity at the hands of the Senussi - religious zealots in league with the Ottoman Turkish forces. Then began a tortuous ordeal for the crew who suffered abuse, starvation and in some cases death at the hands of their gaolers. Abortive escape attempts across the relentless 'Red Desert' followed before rescue finally came in the form of a dramatic hunt and final assault by the forty armoured cars of the Duke of Westminster's squadron. An absolutely essential and gripping read which will be a delight to all those interested in the fortunes of British seamen, the war in the Middle East and well told accounts of true adventure."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)"1914/1918"

Blue versus Orange : the U.S. Naval War College, Japan, and the old enemy in the Pacific, 1945-1946 /Hal M. Friedman. "Blue versus Orange: The U.S. Naval War College, Japan, and the Old Enemy in the Pacific, 1945-1946, by Hal M. Friedman, closely analyzes war gaming at the Naval War College in the academic year 1945-46, as both a reflection and source of the U.S. Navy's doctrinal and strategic responses to the experience of World War II - responses that would help the Navy shape its approach to the Cold War. The book describes in fascinating detail the practice of war gaming at the Naval War College in that era."--Provided by the publisher. 2013 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1945/1946"(73:52)

Ships employed in the South Seas trade, 1775-1859. A.G.E. Jones ; expanded and edited by Dale Chatwin. Jones, A. G. E., [2014]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 387.245

1973-1977 yacht racing rules and tactics Aymar, Gordon C 1974 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 797.144.092.11

British battleships 1889-1904 / R. A. Burt. Burt, R A 1988. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 623.821.2(42)

Suez Canal : changing world 1956-2000 Dessouki, Sami H 1982 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 962.05

The fleet submarine in the US navy : a design and construction history Alden, John Doughty, 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827(73)

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