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In 1759, Admiral Hawke secured a daring victory over the French fleet at Quiberon Bay. It surpasses Nelson’s triumph at Trafalgar in its significance, claims Brian James. |
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Roger Hudson looks at an episode that inspired one of the greatest films ever made. Published in History Today, Volume: 63 Issue: 5, 2013
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Roger Hudson views the famous vessel from an unfamiliar perspective. |
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For all its faults C.E Hamshere’s account of Francis Drake’s 16th-century circumnavigation, published in History Today in 1967, applies a historical imagination lacking in more recent studies, argues Hugh Bicheno. |
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A new online resource opens up possibilities for interpreting the infrastructure of the Roman world, says Jasmine Pui. |
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The ill-fated fortress was opened on February 14th 1938. |
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At Deptford, on April 4th, 1581, Francis Drake, who, during the previous autumn, had returned from his triumphant circumnavigation of the globe, knelt before Queen Elizabeth and received a knighthood |
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George Pendle retraces attempts by the British to seize control of Spanish colonies around the La Plata Basin, now part of Argentina and Uruguay. |
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T.H. McGuffe analyses the failure of Admiral Byng to relieve the besieged British forces against French onslaught. |
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Tom Wareham examines the role played by a legendary yet ill-fated pirate in the consolidation of England’s early trading empire. |
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Colin Greenstreet describes a new collaboration to transcribe and enhance 17th-century records of the High Court of Admiralty. |
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David Waller on the 150th anniversary of a ship that symbolised Liverpool’s ties to the Confederate states during the American Civil War. |
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For a century the sinking of the Titanic has attracted intense interest. Yet, as Andrew Wells explains, there have been many vested interests keen to prevent media attention. |
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Nigel Richardson describes the impact of the Titanic disaster on Southampton, the city from which she sailed and home to more than a third of those who lost their lives when the ship went down on April 15th, 1912. |
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Richard Challoner unearths a letter, written in support of a widow and her children, which is revealing of a humanitarian aspect of Lord Nelson. |
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A series of archaeological discoveries off the coast of Sicily reveal how Rome turned a piece of lethal naval technology pioneered by its enemy, Carthage, to its own advantage, explains Ann Natanson. |
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