I have recently finished reading the biography of Sir Max Horton and I was wondering where his personal papers may be found. The three Captains of the Submarine Flotillas in the Mediterranean often ...

Nicholas A. Lambert has made a timely and important contribution to the historiography of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914). Through careful research, he has created a detailed reexamination of ...

For anyone who knows and loves Hong Kong, this is a marvellous book, full of colourful characters and their often equally colourful stories. It quite certainly introduces us not only to a different ...

MHN return to Hartlepool to the wonderful National Museum of the Royal Navy, Historic Ships with a conference focussing on ...

Working in partnership with The Borthwick Institute for Archives (University of York, England), the tailors Henry Poole & Co ...

This episode continues our work bringing you some of the finest original historical material, written by the people who were actually there. On Friday 7th May 1915, Kapitänleutnant Schwieger found ...

The ‘Golden Years’ in this book’s title almost mirrors the ‘Long Boom’ in international trade ended by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil embargo of 1973–4 which quadrupled ...

While Joseph Mallard William Turner made a beautiful, atmospheric moonlit study in oils of Newcastle keels working the Tyne in 1835 (Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, in the collection of the ...

I will let others correct me but my understanding was that HMS came into use around 1790, I have found references to HMS Phoenix being the first use in 1789. Prior to that it was usually written “His ...