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Bell Davies, Richard. Sailor in the Air.  London: Peter Davies; Barnsley: Seaforth, 1967, 2008, x, 245 pp. Intro: David Hobbs.

Categories:

aviation; memoir; Royal Navy;

Keywords:

aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, memorial, heritage, tradition, bicentennial , Royal Navy, Britain, England, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography

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Bell, Adrian R., Brooks, Chris & Dryburgh, Paul R. The English Wool Market, c. 1230-1327. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007, viii, 205 pp. Analysis, statistics; contracts with foreign merchants, especially Italian & French.

Keywords:

Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Italian, Italy , company, charter, shipping, commercial , enterprise, commerce, trade, business, economy, economic , middle ages (400-1399), trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, wool, commercial product, wool trade

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Bell, Archibald Colquhoun. A History of the Blockade of Germany and of the Countries Associated with Her in the Great War, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, 1914-1918. London: HMSO, 1937, 1961, xvi, 843 pp. Official History, prepared in 1931.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , blockade, general history, general survey, survey, Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 2, second world war

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Bell, Archibald Colquhoun. Die Englische Hungerblockade im Welthrieg, 1914-1915. Essen: Essener, 1915, 1943, 335 pp. Ed: Viktor Bohmert; originally a secret report.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , blockade, Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 2, second world war

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Bell, Benjamin, ed. Lt. John Irving, RN, of HMS Terror in Sir John Franklin's Last Expedition to the Arctic Regions. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1881, ix, 168 pp. Arctic exploration.

Keywords:

19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Arctic, explore, exploration, expedition, polar, North Pole, Top of the World , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , Franklin, John, Arctic expedition, search for Franklin, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , officer, quarterdeck, leader , Royal Navy, Britain, England, ship, boat, vessel

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Bell, Bill. "Bound for Australia: Shipboard Reading in the Nineteenth Century." See R. Myers, Journeys through the Market, pp. 119-40.

Keywords:

19th century, nineteenth, culture, music, literature, language, art , convict, transport, transportation, prisoner, prisoner of war, punish, punishment , literature, culture, voyage, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia

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Bell, Charles. "Shootout at Savo." Am Hist Illustrated, 9 (January 1975): 28-38. Naval battle, 9 August 1942; Allied fleet protecting invasion.

Keywords:

Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-Japanese, Japan , battles, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Royal Australian Navy, Australia , Royal New Zealand Navy, New Zealand , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , world war 2, second world war

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Bell, Christopher Michael & Elleman, Bruce A. "Naval Mutinies in the Twentieth Century and Beyond." See C. Bell, Naval Mutinies of the 20th Century, pp. 264-76.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, mutiny, insurrection, Bounty , naval guide, regulation, guideline, instruction

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Bell, Christopher Michael. "'How Are We Going to Make War?': Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond and British Far Eastern War Plans." J Stra Stud, 20 (1997): 123-41.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, interwar, Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, officer, quarterdeck, leader , Royal Navy, Britain, England

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Bell, Christopher Michael. "British Ideas of Sea Power, 1919-1941." Ph.D. diss, Calgary, 1998, 377 pp. (DAI 59/12, p. 4506).

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, interwar, Royal Navy, Britain, England, strategy, strategic, sea power

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Bell, Christopher Michael. [In progress: Winston Churchill and British Sea Power]. Noted in 2005.]

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Churchill, Winston, First Lord, Prime Minister, War Minister , Royal Navy, Britain, England, First Lord, civilian head of Admiralty , sea power, strategy, strategic

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Bell, Christopher Michael. Knights in White Armour: The New Art of War and Peace. London: Pimlico, 1997. Peacekeeping.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, European North American alliance, military alliance, Cold War alliance , cold war

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Bell, Christopher Michael. "The 'Singapore Strategy' and the Deterrence of Japan: Winston Churchill, the Admiralty, and the Dispatch of Force Z." EnHR, 116 (June 2001): 604-34. Must see in light of "triple threat": Japan, Germany, Italy, as Admiralty did.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Italian, Italy , Anglo-Japanese, Japan , Churchill, Winston, First Lord, Prime Minister, War Minister , First Lord, civilian head of Admiralty , Singapore, campaign, battle, siege, naval base, commercial port, entrepot, disastrous surrender , strategy, strategic, world war 2, second world war

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Bell, Christopher Michael. "The Invergordon Mutiny, 1931." See C. Bell, Naval Mutinies of the 20th Century, pp. 170-92.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-Scot, Scotland, Scottish, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , economics, economic policy, mutiny, insurrection, Bounty , Royal Navy, Britain, England, interwar

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Bell, Christopher Michael. [The London Naval Conference of 1930]. In 2008, noted as in preparation; essays, some cited.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Italian, Italy , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , disarmament, arms reduction, arms limitation, reduction of arms, treaty , interwar

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Bell, Christopher Michael. "The Royal Navy and the Lessons of the Invergordon Mutiny." War in History, 12 (January 2005): 75-92. Admiralty study; focus: development of leadership skills, officers & non-commissioned officers.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , economics, economic policy, interwar, mutiny, insurrection, Bounty , Royal Navy, Britain, England, Anglo-Scot, Scotland, Scottish

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Bell, Christopher Michael. The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars. Studies in Military & Strategic History Series. Stanford: Stanford UP; London: Macmillan, 2000, xx, 232 pp. In association with King's College, London; revisionist; claims of British decline exaggerated & too much emphasis on finance or lack of it.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, critique of Royal Navy, criticism, analysis, critical analysis, controversy, economics, economic policy, interwar, Royal Navy, Britain, England, sea power, strategy, strategic

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Bell, David A. The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Bloomsbury, 2007, x, 420 pp.

Keywords:

Anglo-French, France , Napoleon, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, Egyptian Campaign, St. Helena, exile, prisoner under British , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France

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Bell, Douglas Herbert. Drake. London, 1935, 144 pp.

Keywords:

16th century, sixteenth, Drake, Francis, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography

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

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