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Adams, Valerie. The Media and the Falklands Campaign. New York: St. Martin; London: Macmillan, 1986, x, 224 pp. Foreword: Lawrence Freedman; rigid control of information by Ministry of Defence; many "talking heads" speculating as armchair strategists; accusations of censorship; investigations.
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20th C. (1900-1999); amphibious; Anglo-Argentine; communication; critique of Royal Navy; Falkland; Imperial Defence; strategy;
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20th century, twentieth, amphibious, invasion from sea, landing, attack from sea, landing craft, Anglo-Argentine, Argentina, Argentinian, Falkland, Malvenas, Malvinas, island, colony, campaign, war, battle of First World War , communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, strategy, strategic, critique of Royal Navy, criticism, analysis, critical analysis, controversy
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Ahvenainen, Jorma. The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. Helsinki: Finnish Academic Science, 2004, 427 pp. Neglected topic: underwater cables & international telegraph services.
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20th C. (1900-1999); communication; Latin America; technology;
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20th century, twentieth, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , Latin America, South America, Spanish colonial area , technology, advance, modernization, modernisation
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Aldous, Grahame. "'Death and Glory': Bring Home the News of Trafalgar." Nel Dis, 8 (July 2004): 425-28. Account of Lt. John Lapennotiere & HMS Pickle bringing Trafalgar dispatch to Admiralty, October-November 1805; bicentennial reenactment.
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Admiralty; Anglo-French; Anglo-Spanish; battles; communication; memorial; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , battles, memorial, heritage, tradition, bicentennial , Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable
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Aldous, Grahame. "The New Trafalgar Dispatch Project and Programme: And 'The Trafalgar Way.'" Nel Dis, 8 (April 2005), 609-14. Recreation of Trafalgar to Falmouth voyage of HMS Pickle, 26 October - 6 November 1805; Lord Nelson, sailing vessel, as Pickle: Portsmouth to Cadiz to Brest to Falmouth, thence, "The Trafalgar Way" to London.
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19th C. (1800-1899); 21st C. (2000-); Admiralty; battles; communication; Royal Navy; ship; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, 21st century, twenty-first, twenty first, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, battles, Royal Navy, Britain, England, ship, boat, vessel, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Aldrich, Richard James. Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000, 524 pp. Ground breaking study.
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Anglo-American; Anglo-Japanese; communication; Far East; intelligence; World War II;
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Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-Japanese, Japan , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, world war 2, second world war, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable
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Allen, Derek & Hore, Peter. News of Nelson: John Lapenotiere's Race from Trafalgar to London. Brussels: SEFF, 2005, 103 pp. Allen died in 2004, Hore completed book; "we have won a great victory but we have lost Lord Nelson" was the message Lapenotiere reported at the Admiralty on 6 November 1805.
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Admiralty; battles; communication; officer; personality; Royal Navy; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, battles, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , Royal Navy, Britain, England, officer, quarterdeck, leader , personality, prominent leader, noted person , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, Trafalgar, battle, campaign
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Allingham, Hugh. Captain Cuellar's Adventures in Connaught and Ulster, 1588. London: Stock, 1897, 72 pp. Trans: Robert Crawford; consequence of Spanish Armada.
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16th C. (1500-1599); Anglo-Irish; Anglo-Spanish; armada; communication; memoir; wreck;
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16th century, sixteenth, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , armada, Spanish, invasion , Anglo-Irish, Ireland, Eire, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable
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Alvarez, David, ed. Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence in World War II. Studies in Intelligence Series. London: Cass, 1999, vii, 229 pp. Intro: David Kahn; 10 essays, some cited.
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Anglo-American; Anglo-German; Anglo-Italian; communication; intelligence; World War II;
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Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Italian, Italy , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , world war 2, second world war, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable
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Andrew, Christopher M. & Dilks, David, eds. The Missing Dimension: Governments ands Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century. London: Macmillan; Champaign: Illinois UP, 1984, 300 pp. 11 essays; some cited.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; Anglo-American; Anglo-German; Anglo-Japanese; communication; diplomacy; intelligence; Royal Australian Navy; Royal Canadian Navy; Royal Navy; Royal New Zealand Navy;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Japanese, Japan , communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , Royal Australian Navy, Australia , Royal Canadian Navy, Canada , Royal Navy, Britain, England, Royal New Zealand Navy, New Zealand
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Andrew, Christopher M. & Neilson, Keith. "Tsarist Codebreaking and British Codes." See C. Andrew, Codebreaking & Signals Intelligence, pp. 6-12.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; Anglo-Russian; communication; intelligence; World War I; World War II;
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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , world war 1, first world war, world war 2, second world war
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Andrew, Christopher M. & Noakes, Jeremy, eds. Intelligence and International Relations, 1900-1945. Exeter: Exeter UP; New York: Humanities, 1987, x, 314 pp. 15 essays, some cited.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; Anglo-American; communication; diplomacy; Imperial Defence; intelligence;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT
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Andrew, Christopher M. "Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence." See C. Andrew, Codebreaking & Signals Intelligence, pp. 1-5.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; Anglo-German; Anglo-Japanese; communication; intelligence;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Japanese, Japan , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT
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Andrew, Christopher M. "Intelligence Collaboration between Britain, the U.S., and the Commonwealth during World War II." See W. Hitchcock, Intelligence Revolution, pp. 111-22.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; Anglo-American; Anglo-German; Anglo-Japanese; communication; intelligence; Royal Australian Navy; Royal Canadian Navy; Royal Navy; Royal New Zealand Navy;
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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Japanese, Japan , communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , Royal Australian Navy, Australia , Royal Canadian Navy, Canada , Royal Navy, Britain, England, Royal New Zealand Navy, New Zealand
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Andrew, Christopher M. "Mobilization of British Intelligence for Two World Wars." See F. Dreisziger, Mobilization for Total War, pp. 87-110. It was "uncompetitive, unprofessional, haphazard and self-selective method of recruitment."
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; communication; intelligence; officer; recruitment; Royal Navy; World War I; World War II;
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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , recruitment, recruit, recruiting, conscription, conscript, draft, mandatory service, officer, quarterdeck, leader , Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 1, first world war, world war 2, second world war
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Andrew, Christopher M. Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community. London: Heinemann; New York: Viking, 1985, 1986, 1987, xviii, 619 pp. Alt. title: Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; Anglo-American; Anglo-German; Anglo-Japanese; communication; intelligence; Royal Navy; World War I; World War II;
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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Japanese, Japan , communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , Royal Navy, Britain, England, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , world war 1, first world war, world war 2, second world war
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Andrew, Christopher M., ed. Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence. Intelligence & National Security Series, # 1. London: Cass, 1986, vi, 137 pp. 7 essays; some cited; sigint, most important before satellite..
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; Anglo-German; Anglo-Japanese; communication; intelligence;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Japanese, Japan
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Baarslag, Karl. SOS: Radio Rescues at Sea: On the Use of Wireless Telegraphy in Disasters at Sea. New York: Oxford UP; London: Methuen, 1935, 1937, xvi, 310 pp. Foreword: C.R. Benstead; alt. title: SOS to the Rescue.
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age of steam, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , science , technology, advance, modernization, modernisation, wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology
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Baker, William John. A History of the Marconi Company. London: Methuen; London: Routledge, 1970, 1996, 413 pp. Guglielmo Marconi, 1874-1937; major innovation, early 20th century.
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20th C. (1900-1999); age of steam; Atlantic World; communication; company; technology;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, age of steam, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , company, charter, shipping, commercial , Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , technology, advance, modernization, modernisation
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Banks,Kenneth J. Chasing Empire across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2002, xxi, 319 pp. Delightful monograph; Canada, Martinique, Louisbourg.
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18th C. (1700-1799); Anglo-French; Atlantic World; Colonial America; colonialism; communication;
Keywords:
18th century, eighteenth, Anglo-French, France , Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , colonialism, colony, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable
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Barnes, Robert F. The Postal Service of the Falkland Islands: Including South Shetlands, 1906-1931, and South Georgia. London: Lowe, 1972, vii, 96 pp. Foreword: Robson Lowe; philatelists favor Falklands stamps.
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20th century, twentieth, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , Falkland, Malvenas, Malvinas, island, colony, campaign, war, battle of First World War
| Abbreviations | |
| AHR | American Historical Review |
| Alb | Albion |
| alt | alternate |
| Am Nep | American Neptune |
| AQ & DJ | Army Quarterly and Defence Journal |
| ASLIB | Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses) |
| BIHR | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
| Can His Rev | Canadian Historical Review |
| Can J His | Canadian Journal of History |
| comp | Compiled by |
| DAI | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| EcHR | Economic History Review |
| ed | editor or edited by |
| EnHR | English Historical Review |
| HisAHR | Hispanic American Historical Review |
| HJ | Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal) |
| His Res | Historical Research |
| His Tod | History Today |
| Intell & Nat Sec | Intelligence and National Security |
| IJ Mar His | International Journal of Maritime History |
| IJ Nau Arch | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |
| IHR | International History Review |
| intro | introduction |
| J Am His | Journal of American History |
| J Asian His | Journal of Asian History |
| JBS | Journal of British Studies |
| J Cont His | Journal of Contemporary History |
| J Econ His | Journal of Economic History |
| JI & CH | Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |
| J Mar Res | Journal for Maritime Research |
| J Mil His | Journal of Military History |
| J Mod His | Journal of Modern History |
| JRUSI | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute |
| J Soc His | Journal of Social History |
| JSAHR | Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research |
| J Stra Stu | Journal of Strategic Studies |
| J Trans His | Journal of Transport History |
| J Wor His | Journal of World History |
| MM | Mariner's Mirror |
| Mil Aff | Military Affairs |
| NHS | Naval History Symposium (USNA) |
| NMM | National Maritime Museum |
| Nav Rev | Naval Review |
| NWCR | Naval War College Review (US) |
| Nel Dis | Nelson Dispatch |
| NIP | Naval Institute Press |
| Nor Mar | Northern Mariner |
| Pac His Rev | Pacific Historical Review |
| P & P | Past and Present |
| Traf Chron | Trafalgar Chronicle |
| trans | translated by |
| UP | University Press |
| USNIP | Proceedings of the Naval Institute |
| Vic Stu | Victorian Studies |
| War & Soc | War and Society |
| War in His | War in History |
| W&MQ | William and Mary Quarterly |
| WSS | World Ship Society |