Product Description: Naval Wives & Mistresses is an innovative study of naval women who stayed at home while their men went to sea. Focusing on the second half of the 18th century, a period when Britain was almost continuously at war, this book looks at different social groups, from the aristocratic elite to the laboring and criminal poor, prostitutes, and petty thieves...read more

Product Description: Britain's overseas Empire pre-eminently involved the sea. In a two-way process, ships carried travellers and explorers, trade goods, migrants to new lands, soldiers to fight wars and garrison colonies, and also ideas and plants that would find fertile minds and soils in other lands...read more

Product Description: Sundials at Greenwich is the first full-scale catalog of the collection of sundials, nocturnals, and horary quadrants of the National Maritime Museum. This collection composes one of the most important reseources for the study of the history of sundials, particularly of portable sundials, and is world-renowned for its significance...read more

Product Description: This guidebook for the National Maritime Museum explores its galleries, buildings, and historic collections.

Product Description: In the age of sail, the boats carried by the men-of-war were an essential part of the ship's outfitting. They were necessary to move stores, act as the "engine" in confined waters, serve as amphibious raiders, and even to cruise independently as tenders to the mother ship...read more

Product Description: , xi, 592 pages, with numerous photographs in black & white and colour (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume illustrates all naval facets of the War of 1812 with contemporary sources from the British Maritime Museum and the archives of North America. It also includes a wealth of eyewitness material from diaries, journals, and sketchbooks of participants.

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Product Description: This publication lists over 5,000 scientific instrument makers and retailers working in the British Isles, together with a further 10,000 names of apprentices and associates. The directory transforms our understanding of the history of the scientific instrument-making trades in Britain...read more

Product Description: This guide describes and locates over 1100 collections of original British naval documents in 250 US and Canadian repositories. It lists separate collections under six categories; provides a directory of libraries holding these collections, with details of opening hours, access, photocopying facilities and lists of papers held; and supplies three indexes...read more