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Beeler, John Francis. "'Fit for Service Abroad': Promotion, Retirement and Royal Navy Officers, 1830-1890." MM, 81 (August 1995): 300-12.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; officer; recruitment; Royal Navy;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, officer, quarterdeck, leader , Royal Navy, Britain, England, recruitment, recruit, recruiting, conscription, conscript, draft, mandatory service
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Beeler, John Francis. "A One Power Standard?: Great Britain and the Balance of Naval Power, 1860-1880." J Stra Stu, 15 (December 1992): 547-75. Revisionist interpretation; British naval supremacy was challenged, e.g., Italy, Austria, Prussia, U.S.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; Anglo-American; Anglo-French; Anglo-German; Anglo-Italian; Imperial Defence; Royal Navy; sea power;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Italian, Italy , Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, Royal Navy, Britain, England, sea power
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Beeler, John Francis. Birth of the Battleship: British Capital Ship Design, 1870-1881. An English Heritage Report Series. Caxton Edition Series. London: Chatham; London: Caxton Group, 2001, 2003, 224 pp. Folio, 120 illustrations; rehabilitated reputation of Nathaniel Barnaby; extensive bibliography.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; architecture; battleship; gunnery; personality; Royal Navy; shipbuilding; technology;
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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, battleship, battlecruiser, dreadnought, capital ship , architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , 19th century, nineteenth, gunnery, gun, weapon , Royal Navy, Britain, England, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, technology, advance, modernization, modernisation, personality, prominent leader, noted person
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Beeler, John Francis. British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997, xviii, 354 pp. Scholarly reassessment of RN of 19th century; to rehabilitate Hugh Childers; HMS Captain catastrophe; revisionist.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; age of steam; architecture; Imperial Defence; personality; Royal Navy; wreck;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of steam, Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , personality, prominent leader, noted person , Royal Navy, Britain, England, wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology
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Beeler, John Francis. "Maritime Policing and the Pax Britannica: The Royal Navy's Anti-Slavery Patrol in the Caribbean, 1828-1842." Nor Mar, 16 (2006): 1-20.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; Atlantic World; blockade; Royal Navy; slave trade;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , blockade, Royal Navy, Britain, England, slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage
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Beeler, John Francis. "Naval Policy under Disraeli and Derby." See M. Shirley, Splendidly Victorian, pp. 109-28.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; Royal Navy; sea power; strategy;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Royal Navy, Britain, England, strategy, strategic, sea power
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Beeler, John Francis. "Plowshares into Swords: The Royal Navy and Merchant Marine Auxiliary in the Late Nineteenth Century." See G. Kennedy, Merchant Marine in International Affairs, pp. 5-30.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; auxiliary; merchant marine; Royal Navy;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, auxiliary, merchant marine, Royal Navy, Britain, England
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Beeler, John Francis. "Steaming Erratically towards the Dreadnought: The British Navy in the Era of Gladstone and Disraeli." Ph.D. diss, Illinois, 1991, 703 pp. Under Walter Arnstein; (DAI 52/11, p. 4049).
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; age of steam; architecture; battleship; critique of Royal Navy; Imperial Defence; Royal Navy;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of steam, architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , battleship, battlecruiser, dreadnought, capital ship , critique of Royal Navy, criticism, analysis, critical analysis, controversy, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence
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Beemer, Jan S. "Security in Northern Waters: A New Nordic Balance?" See F. Crickard, Multinational Naval Cooperation, pp. 220-34.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; diplomacy; Imperial Defence; North Sea; Royal Navy;
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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, north sea, Royal Navy, Britain, England
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Beemer, Jan S. "The Burden of Trafalgar: Decisive Battle and Naval Stratetic Expectations on the Eve of the First World War." Newport Papers Series. Naval War College Press, October 1993.
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Admiralty; Anglo-German; battles; Royal Navy; strategy; Trafalgar; World War I;
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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Royal Navy, Britain, England, battles, strategy, strategic, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , world war 1, first world war
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Beer, Anna R. Bess: The Life of Lady Ralegh, Wife to Sir Walter. London: Constable, 2004, 288 pp. Elizabeth nee Throckmorton.
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16th C. (1500-1599); exploration; memoir; Raleigh, Walter; woman;
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16th century, sixteenth, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , Raleigh, Walter, Sir Walter Ralegh, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , woman
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Beer, Anna R. Sir Walter Ralegh and His Readers in the Seventeenth Century: Speaking to the People. Early Modern Literature in History Series. London: Macmillan, 1997, xii, 208 pp.
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17th C. (1600-1699); culture; exploration; literature; Raleigh, Walter;
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17th century, seventeenth, culture, music, literature, language, art , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , literature, culture, Raleigh, Walter, Sir Walter Ralegh
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Beers, Henry P. "British Commanders in Chief in North America, 1754-1783." Mil Aff, 13 (1949): 79-94.
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18th C. (1700-1799); Admiralty; Colonial America; leadership; Royal Navy;
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18th century, eighteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , leadership, leader, command, commander in chief , Royal Navy, Britain, England
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Beers, Henry P. U.S. Naval Forces in Northern Russia (Archangel and Murmansk), 1918-1919. Adminiatrative Reference Service Reports Series, # 5. Washington: Navy Department, 1943, 56 pp. Folio MSS.
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Anglo-American; Anglo-Russian; invasion; Royal Navy; United States Navy; World War I;
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Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, invasion, armada, landing , Royal Navy, Britain, England, united states navy, US navy, world war 1, first world war
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Beesley, Lawrence. The Loss of the S.S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons. London: Heinemann; London: Houghton Mifflin, 1912, 1929, 1960, 1979, xii, 302 pp. By survivor & excellent observer.
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20th century, twentieth, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , Titanic, passenger liner, wreck, tragedy, disaster , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology
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Beesly, Patrick & Rohwer, Jurgen. "Special Intelligence and Convoy Routing: JW.55B and the Destruction of Scharnhorst." Marine Rundschau (October 1977).
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Anglo-German; Battle of the Atlantic; battleship; Royal Navy; ship; World War II;
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Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , battleship, battlecruiser, dreadnought, capital ship , Royal Navy, Britain, England, ship, boat, vessel, world war 2, second world war
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Beesly, Patrick. "British Naval Intelligence in the Second World War." See C. Andrew, Intelligence & International Relations, pp. 253-74.
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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 2, second world war
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Beesly, Patrick. "Convoy PQ.17: A Study of Intelligence and Decision Making." Intell & Nat Sec, 5 (April 1991): 292-322.
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Admiralty; Anglo-German; Anglo-Russian; Battle of the Atlantic; intelligence; logistics; Royal Navy; World War II;
Keywords:
Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , logistics, supply, supplies, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 2, second world war
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Beesly, Patrick. "Operational Intelligence and the Battle of the Atlantic: The Role of the Royal Navy's Submarine Tracking Room." See J. Boutilier, RCN in Retrospect, pp. 175-86.
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Admiralty; anti-submarine warfare; Battle of the Atlantic; intelligence; Royal Navy; U-boat; World War II;
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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, anti-submarine warfare, submarine, ASW, sonar , Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , Royal Navy, Britain, England, U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship , world war 2, second world war
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Beesly, Patrick. Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914-1918. London: Hamilton; Boston: Harcourt Brace, 1982, xi, 338 pp. Predecessor to Bletchley Park & Ultra; naval intelligence in 1st World War.
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Admiralty; Anglo-German; intelligence; Royal Navy; World War I;
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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 1, 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 |