New Naval History

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

• List of figures and tablesNotes on contributorsIntroductionQuintin Colville and James DaveyPart I Sociocultural analyses of the Royal Navy 1 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 Chalus 3 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

'This volume may be a landmark in the evolution of the field … a carefully selected cross-section of the latest high grade academic research in the field of naval history, a description that the editors have stretched far beyond the old limits of ships, battles and sailors.'Professor Andrew Lambert, King's College, London'This first-class collection of essays follows the path of important works such as The Great Naval Game by Jan Rüger, editor of the foreword of the volume and whose research and insights reverberate through many of the mentioned contributions. All chapters cover a wide range of topics and make use of innovative approaches that might well be fruitfully applied to the study of cases beyond Britain. Overall, this book is an excellent addition to academic literature and an important contribution for scholars working in naval history and adjacent fields of research.'European History Quarterly