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Abernathy, Cecil. Mr. Pepys of Seething Lane: A Narrative Based on Pepys' Diary. New York: McGraw-Hill; London: Allen, 1957, 1958, 384 pp.
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17th century, seventeenth, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , Pepys, Samuel, Secretary to Admiralty, famous diary , Royal Navy, Britain, England
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Abraham, J. Johnston. The Surgeon's Log: Impressions of the Far East. London: Chapman & Hall, 1911, 1912, 1913, xiv, 302 pp. Memoir.
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20th century, twentieth, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, health, sickness, illness, medicine, surgeon, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Abraham, Mildred K., ed. The Grand Tour and Beyond: British Travel Narratives of the Continent, the Middle and Far East, Africa and the American Colonies, 1700-1825: Selected and Annotated. An Exhibition in the Department of Rare Books, University of Virginia Library, 22 February-30 April 1981. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Library, 1982, 73 pp. Folio; "grand tour" education process, especially 1763-1793.
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18th C. (1700-1799); 19th C. (1800-1899); education; Far East; memoir;
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18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , education, educate, training, train, teaching, teach, schooling, school, learning, learn, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia
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Adams, Bill. Ships and Memories: The Story ot the Years the Author Spent on the Four-Masted Barque Silberborn, Running to Oregon and San Francisco as Told in His Famous Book, Ships and Women which Is Reproduced in Full. . . . with 150 Photographic Illustrations of Ships He Knew 40 Pen-and-Ink Sketches by W.M. Birchall. Brighton, 1975, xxx, 449 pp. Out of Liverpool.
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19th C. (1800-1899); age of sail; art; memoir; ship; voyage;
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age of sail, art, painting, painter, artistic, design , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , voyage, ship, boat, vessel, 19th century, nineteenth
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Adams, Charles Hansford, ed. The Narrative of Robert Adams, a Barbary Captive: A Critical Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004, 2005, lxvi, 190 pp. African-American sailor memoir of 1815; shipwrecked, captive, to Africa, Cadiz, London.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Barbary; memoir; piracy; prisoner of war; wreck;
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19th century, nineteenth, Barbary, pirate, corsair, Mediterranean, North Africa , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer, prisoner of war, prisoner, convict, wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology
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Adams, Simon L., ed. "The Armada Correspondence in Cotton MSS Otho E VII and E IX." See M. Duffy, Naval Miscellany VI., pp. 37-92.
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16th century, sixteenth, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , armada, Spanish, invasion , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Addison, Thomas. "Extracts from the Journals of Thomas Addison, of the East India Company Service, 1801-1830." See J. Laughton, Naval Miscellany, II., pp. 333-74.
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19th century, nineteenth, East India Company, charter company, Raj , company, charter, shipping, commercial , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Adlam, Henry. On and Off the Flight Deck: Reflections of a Naval Fighter Pilot in World War II. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2007. "Hank" Adlam; memoir, RAF aerial operations.
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Aircraft carrier; aviation; memoir; naval lore; Royal Navy; World War II;
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aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, aircraft carrier, carrier, warfare, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , naval lore, tradition, oral tradition, sea story, sea term, naval dictionary , Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 2, second world war
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Agar, Augustus. Footsteps in the Sea. London: Evans, 1959, 336 pp. Memoir, 1st & 2nd World Wars; secret operations in Baltic in 1st; shipped gold reserves of Britain to U.S. in 2nd.
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Anglo-German; Anglo-Russian; Baltic; economics; intelligence; memoir; World War I; World War II;
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Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , economics, economic policy, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , world war 1, first world war, world war 2, second world war
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Agar, Augustus. Showing the Flag. London: Evans, 1962, 304 pp. Memoir, service during interwar period.
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interwar, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , Royal Navy, Britain, England
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Agnew, Vanessa. "A Scots Orpheus in the South Seas: Encounter Music on Cook's Second Voyage." J Mar Res (1 May 2001). Use of music in cross-cultural encounters.
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18th C. (1700-1799); Anglo-Scot; Cook, James; exploration; memoir; music;
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18th century, eighteenth, Anglo-Scot, Scotland, Scottish, Cook, James, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , music, culture, arts
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Aiken, Alexander. In Time of War. Glasgow: A. Aiken, 1980, xiv, 430 pp. Supply ships involved in naval operations, 2nd World War.
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logistics, supply, supplies, world war 2, second world war, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , ship, boat, vessel
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Aitchison, Robert. A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827. New Orleans: Historic New Orleans, 2004, 149 pp. Ed: Gene A. Smith.
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amphibious; Anglo-American; battles; invasion; memoir; War of 1812;
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Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, battles, amphibious, invasion from sea, landing, attack from sea, landing craft, invasion, armada, landing , War of 1812, Anglo-American war, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA, impressment, battle, frigate action, campaign, blockade , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Aitken, Jonathan. John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace. London: Continuum, 2007, xix, 308 pp. Foreword: Philip Yancey; useful & popular study of famous figure; to RN, flogged, to slaving ship, to abolitionist; wrote "Amazing Grace."
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19th C. (1800-1899); memoir; merchant marine; music; Royal Navy; slave trade;
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19th century, nineteenth, merchant marine, Royal Navy, Britain, England, slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , music, culture, arts
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Akrigg, G.P.V. & Akrigg, Helen B. HMS Virago in the Pacific, 1851-1855: To the Queen Charlottes and Beyond. Victoria: Sono Nis, 1992, 209 pp.
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19th century, nineteenth, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , Royal Navy, Britain, England, ship, boat, vessel
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Alderman, Clifford Lindsey. Wooden Ships and Iron Men. New York: Walker, 1964, 134 pp. Nautical fiction; juvenile literature; young English sailor, thence to American navy during War of 1812; based on Samuel Leech, 1798-1848.
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age of sail; condition; juvenile literature; memoir; nautical fiction; Royal Navy; ship; United States Navy; War of 1812;
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age of sail, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , juvenile literature, children's, junior, nautical fiction, sea fiction , Royal Navy, Britain, England, War of 1812, Anglo-American war, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA, impressment, battle, frigate action, campaign, blockade , united states navy, US navy, ship, boat, vessel, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Alexander, Andrew. "Negotiation, Trade and the Rituals of Endurance: An Examination of the Slave Trading Voyage of De Zon, 1775-1776." Itinerario, 31 (2007): 39-58.
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18th C. (1700-1799); diplomacy; memoir; slave trade; trade; voyage;
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18th century, eighteenth, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , voyage
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Alexander, Caroline. Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar Bound Cat. London: Bloomsbury, 1997, xvii, 170 pp. Fiction; intro: Lord Mouser-Hunt; ship's cat on polar expedition.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Antarctic; literature; memoir; Shackleton, Ernest;
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20th century, twentieth, Antarctic, explore, exploration, expedition, polar, South Pole , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , literature, culture, Shackleton, Ernest
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Alexander, Edward Porter, ed. The Journal of James Fontaine: An Irish Huguenot Son in Spain and Virginia, 1710-1719. Charlottesville: Virginia UP, 1972, xii, 190 pp. For Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; account of horrors of the sea.
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18th C. (1700-1799); Anglo-Irish; Anglo-Spanish; Colonial America; memoir; wreck;
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18th century, eighteenth, Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , Anglo-Irish, Ireland, Eire, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology
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Alexander, Harold. The Alexander Memoirs, 1940-1945. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962, xiii, 209 pp. Ed: John North; memoir of Field Marshal Earl Alexander; included Dunkirk, Burma & Italy; not informative.
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dunkirk, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, world war 2, second world war, personality, prominent leader, noted person
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 |