Awarded the prestigious Anderson Medal by the Society for Nautical Research for the best volume published on an aspect of maritime history for 2010....
The ancient but isolated town of Whitby has made a huge contribution to the maritime history of Britain: Captain Cook learned sailing and navigation...
This book describes naval warfare during the opening phase of the Hundred Years War, a vital period in the development of the early Royal Navy, in...
For hundreds of years the keelmen, the "keel lads o' coaly Tyne" celebrated in the north-east folk song "The Keel Row", ferried coal down-river to the...
'An original and evocative window onto the lives of men who bridged the two worlds of eighteenth century Europe and the Far East.' Professor Nicholas...
England's relationship with the sea in the later Middle Ages has been unjustly neglected, a gap which this volume seeks to fill. The physical fact of...
When war broke out with France in 1793, there immediately arose the threat of a renewed French challenge to British supremacy in India. This security...
This book examines how, as the nineteenth century progressed, religious piety, especially evangelical piety, was seen in the British navy less as...
This book examines successive campaigns fought by reformers to improve seamen's health and fitness, sometimes aided by, often opposed by...
Most books on the colonisation of India view the subject in Eurocentric imperial terms, focusing on the ways in which European powers competed with...