The naval miscellany : vol. 5 / edited by N.A.M. Rodger
Language: English
Published by George Allen & Unwin for the Navy Records Society, 1984
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Provenance: Robin Brodhurst. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of rubbing to the spine bands. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; Publications of the Navy Records Society ; v. 125. Physical description; xii, 546 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Great Britain History ; Sources. Naval. Great Britain Colonies. West Indies. British Administration. 1 Kg.
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- Title
- The naval miscellany : vol. 5 / edited by N.A.M. Rodger
- Author
- N.A.M. Rodger
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin for the Navy Records Society
- Publication year
- 1984
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0049421840
- ISBN 13
- 9780049421844
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
This edition contains documents from the seventeenth century to the Second World War. There is additional material to complement NRS Volume 116 from the Commission of Enquiry in 1608, an account of the Earl of Warwick’s voyage to the Mediterranean in 1627 and documents relating to the management of the Royal Dockyards between 1672 and 1678.
There is an account of Benbow’s last battle and ensuing court martial in 1702, orders and correspondence relating to landings on the French coast in 1758, papers relating to operations in the Leeward Islands during the Seven Years War, letters from a naval captain from Portugal and the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars, operation orders and reports relating to Copenhagen in 1807, letters from a midshipman in the Far East between 1818 and 1822, the capture of Bomarsund in 1854, a Committee of Inquiry relating to the Admiralty office in 1855, officers’ correspondence on the Dardanelles Campaign and, finally, the memoirs of a paymaster in the Royal Australian Navy, in both WWI and WW2.
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About the Author
Born 12 November 1949 in Arundel, Sussex. Educated at Ampleforth College, and University College, Oxford, where he earned a PhD for his thesis on Naval Policy and cruiser design, 1865-1890. He served at the Public Records Office 1974-1991 as Assistant Keeper of Public Records, and resigned so as to start writing a Naval History of Britain, with the support of the National Maritime Museum, the Navy Records Society and the Society of Nautical Research. He was Anderson Senior Research Fellow 1992-98 at the National Maritime Museum. In 1999 he moved to Exeter University as Senior Lecturer and in 2000 became Professor of Naval History. In 2007 he was elected a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was Hon. Secretary of the Navy Records Society 1976-1990, a member of the Society of Antiquaries from 1985, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society from 1980 and a Fellow of the British Academy from 2003. He is currently writing the third and final volume of his trilogy on British naval history. The first two volumes were both highly acclaimed. He was awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History in 1982, and in 2005 both the Duke of Westminster’s Gold Medal for Military Literature and the British Academy Book Prize. In 2011 he was named the first Hattendorf Prize Laureate.
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