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The Press Gang: Naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain

By Kathryn Hadley | Posted 15th December 2008, 11:55
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Nicholas Rogers
Continuum

A study of the press gang, the regulating officers and gangs of the Royal Navy who were sent out to find recruits to man its fleets, of how it worked, whom it was aimed at and why and how many people opposed its activities.




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