A new naval history

Quintin Colville is Senior Curator: Research at Royal Museums Greenwich, Visiting Professor at the University of Portsmouth, and Research Fellow at the University of YorkJames Davey is Lecturer in Naval and Maritime History at the University of Exeter

This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. It is the first publication to capture a new form of naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art.

List of figures and tablesNotes on contributorsIntroductionQuintin Colville and James DaveyPart I Sociocultural analyses of the Royal Navy1 Particular skills: warrant officers in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815Evan Wilson2 My dearest Tussy': coping with separation during the Napoleonic Wars (the Fremantle papers, 1800-14)Elaine Chalus3 The Admiralty's gaze: disciplining indecency and sodomy in the Edwardian fleetMary Conley4 Navy, nation and empire: nineteenth-century photographs of the British naval community overseasCindy McCreery5 Salt water in the blood: race, indigenous naval recruitment and British colonialism, 1934-41Daniel Owen SpencePart II Representations of the Royal Navy6 Memorialising Anson, the fighting explorer: a case study in eighteenth-century naval commemoration and material cultureKatherine Parker7 The apotheosis of Nelson in the National Gallery of Naval ArtCicely Robinson8 Naval heroism in the mid-Victorian family magazineBarbara Korte9 'What is the British Navy doing?' The Royal Navy's image problem in War Illustrated magazineJonathan Rayner10 Patriotism and pageantry: representations of Britain's naval past at the Greenwich Night Pageant, 1933Emma HannaAfterword: Britain and the sea: new historiesJan Rüger