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Manual for activities directed at Underwater Cultural Heritage : guidelines to the Annex of the UNESCO 2001 Convention /ed. by Thijs J. Maarleveld, Ulrike Guâerin and Barbara Egger. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.26(204)

Arctic warriors : a personal account of Convoy PQ18 /by Alfred Grossmith Mason. "This is a rare and graphic personal account that captures the atmosphere of this infamously costly convoy and others like it. If any doubts remain of the terrible conditions and dangers that merchant seamen aced in the hostile waters of the North Atlantic and Barents Sea, this superb record will surely put them to rest."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542.1(47)

Eyes right : the story of Dollond & Aitchison opticians 1750-1985 /Hugh Barty-King. Barty-King, Hugh. 1986. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.7

Imperial Russian Navy in photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries / V. Krestjaninov. Krest§ëiìaninov, V. ëIìA. 2013. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.49"1890/1916"(47)

Irish coast pilot : offshore and coastal waters round Ireland and including routes to the Irish Sea from the Atlantic Ocean landfalls /United Kingdon Hydrographic Office Great Britain. Hydrographic Department. 2013. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Cassell's companion to eighteenth-century Britain / Stephen Brumwell and W.A. Speck ; general editor, Derek Beales. Brumwell, Stephen, 2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942"17"(038)

1001 inventions : Muslim heritage in our world /chief editor: Salim T. S. Al-Hassani, coeditors: Elizabeth Woodstock & Rabah Saoud. Al-Hassani, Salim T. S. 22007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 5/6(091):297

Mediterranean pilot. coasts of Libya, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Syria, south coasts of Greek islands from Kriti to Rodos and Turkey with island of Cyprus. Great Britain.-Hydrographic Office 2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

The dutch in the medway / by the author of "The camp of refuge." MacFarlane, Charles, 1845. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-3

Vice-Admiral T. A. B. Spratt and the development of oceanography in the Mediterranean : 1841-1873 /by Margaret Deacon. Deacon, Margaret 1978. • FOLIO • 4 copies available. 551.46(262)

Isle of Thanet : through time /Anthony Lane. "Dependent originally on fishing and farming, Margate and Ramsgate benefited as limbs of the Cinque Ports during the Middle Ages, shipping grain to London and elsewhere. Growth was, however, slow until an interest in sea-bathing arose in the eighteenth century, when, to Margate's great benefit, Benjamin Beale invented the first bathing machine with a modesty hood. After that, hoys, paddle steamers and railways brought a stream of visitors that rapidly became a torrent. After the last war, easier foreign travel allowed people to bathe elsewhere, causing Margate to lose many hotels and other amenities. Mods and rockers did not reverse that trend and Manston aerodrome enjoyed some notoriety with the USAF in residence. Successes included the Hovercraft service to Calais and the enlargement of Ramsgate harbour. Thanet's cliffs, beaches and sea air remain attractive today, though. This delightful book shows some of the changes."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.223(210.5)

Ireland and the war at sea : 1641-1653 /Elaine Murphy. "The book provides a clear and comprehensive narrative account of the war at sea, accompanied by careful contextualisation and a full analysis of its Irish, British and European dimensions. This includes the strategic importance of Irish ports, conflict between organised navies and formidable bands of privateers and pirates, the adoption of new naval technologies and tactics and the relationship between conflict on land and sea. Moving beyond traditional accounts of naval campaigns, it integrates warfare at sea into the wider dimension of political and economic developments in Ireland, England and Scotland."--Back cover. 2012. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"16"(42:415)

Coasters of South Wales / by Bernard McCall "This volume looks at ports between Swansea in the west and Chepstow in the east. The industrial revolution saw a huge and rapid expansion of ports in this area, thanks largely to the insatiable appetite for coal and metals which could be supplied in abundance from South Wales. The latter half of the twentieth century saw an inexorable decline in the area's coal production and heavy industry with the inevitable result that large sections of port areas have declined in maritime importance."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.2(429.7)

The correspondence of John Flamsteed, the first astronomer royal : Volume Two, 1682-1703 /compiled and edited by Eric G. Forbes, and (for Maria Forbes) by Lesley Murdin and Frances Willmoth. "The Correspondence of John Flamsteed: The First Astronomer Royal, Volume Two contains the letters Flamsteed wrote and received from June 1682 to the spring of 1703. A leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, his extensive correspondence with 129 British and foreign scholars touches on many of the scientific discussions of the day. Some of these exchanges involved established correspondents, chiefly Newton and Wallis, but members of a younger generation, such as Stephen Gray, William Derham, and Abraham Sharp, appear with increasing frequency, especially after 1700." 1997. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 52

Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner : British painting and the rise of modernity /edited by Carolina Brook and Valter Curzi. "In the eighteenth century, Britain experienced a surge of major social, economic and cultural upheavals that manifested themselves particularly in the field of artistic production. While to some degree the aristocracy continued to favour the established cultural models of the Continent, the emerging middle classes fostered the development of an authentically British iconography, showing greater determination than the traditional patrons of the arts before them. In this book a team of British and Italian scholars address this subject, broadening the critical debate to include the contribution of eighteenth-century Italy. Here, historical and cultural analyses of Britain, and of London in particular, are combined with an examination of how a new and peculiarly native figurative language was forged alongside the continental tradition, manifesting itself in a dynamic quest that embraced and developed the classical tradition while attempting to break free of it. The resulting debate shaped the growth of the various pictorial genres - from history painting to landscape and portraiture - in which the British school evolved a distinct artistic identity that was to be recognized in the nineteenth century, expressed particularly in experimenting with landscape painting, seen as the image of modernity. Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Rome, the volume includes essays by Adriano Aymonino, Ilaria Miarelli Mariani, Carolina Brook, Brian Allen, Robin Simon, Pat Hardy, Martin Postle, Andrew Wilton, Valter Curzi, Sergio Marinelli, Giovanna Perini Folesani, Anna Maria Ambrosini Massari and Paolo Coen; the catalogue of the exhibited works, which is divided into seven sections (London, Capital of the British Empire; The New World; Towards a National Iconography; The Heroic Age of the Portrait; On the Spot Landscape: the Success of Watercolour; Variations on Landscape; Inside and Beyond Landscape: Constable and Turner); finally, the artists' biographies and a bibliography."--Provided by the publisher. 2014 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 75(42)"17/18"

Britten's old clocks and watches and their makers ... Britten, F J 1973 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.11

Portsmouth's World War Two heroes : stories of the fallen men and women /James Daly. Daly, James-(Military historian) 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92(422.7)"1939/1945"

Fighting ships of World Wars One and Two Maclean, Anne 1976 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 940.45/.545

Museums and galleries yearbook 2013 / Museums Assocation. Museums Association 2013. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 069(42)

The tools of empire : technology and European imperialism in the nineteenth century /Daniel R. Headrick. Headrick, Daniel R. 1981. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.46:62

Miscellaneous No 6 (1914) : correspondence respecting the European crisis. Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1914. • • 1 copy available. 940.31

Bismarck and Hood : the battle of the Denmark Strait :a technical analysis for a new perspective /Marco Santarini "The legendary Battle of the Denmark Strait, which saw the mighty German battleship Bismarck sink Britain's HMS Hood in an epic duel of the titans, has been dogged by controversy to this day. Was the doomed HMS Hood really sunk by a shell that penetrated her decks to explode in one of her magazine compartments? Others believe that Bismarck's fortunate shell detonated in Hood's cordite supply - the powder that propelled 1,920-lbs some staggering 30,180 yards - suggesting that damage examined on the wreck indicates a more distinct explosion. Or was the Hood's destructive and violent demise a new, and until now, unexplained act of war? The sinking of HMS Hood on Empire Day, 24 May 1941, resulted in the single largest loss of life for the Royal Navy during the Second World War: 1,415 lives were lost. There were absolutely no traces of any crewmen save three survivors. 'Bismarck and Hood: The Battle of the Denmark Strait - A Technical Analysis' is an innovative and potentially controversial study of this infamous battle. The author, a rear admiral in the Italian Navy, is an expert in gunnery and his book, a work of over two decades of study, further investigates this battle in an attempt to attain a more credible explanation. The events and tactics leading up to the battle are explained within their various contexts and a cinematic and ballistic model of the battle was developed, essential for a statistical analysis of Hood's sinking. Certainly, no one will ever be able to confirm what exactly happened in the Denmark Strait on that fateful day, but this rigorous book disposes of myths and falsehoods and paves the way for a more realistic interpretation of this iconic battle between HMS Hood and Bismarck."--Provided by the publisher. 2013 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1941"(42:43)

Grand fleet battlecruisers / text by Steve Backer ; colour profiles and line drawings by George Richardson ; appearance sketches by John Roberts. "The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. This volume follows the format of the highly successful Flower Class where the extent has been doubled to include far more illustrations of the many different designs, from the Invincible of 1906 to the Renowns of 1915, and including the hybrid 'large light cruisers' Courageous, Glorious and Furious."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 086.5:623.821.3(42)

A map of England & Wales : divided into counties, parlimentary divisions, & dioceses ; shewing the principal roads, railways, rivers, & canals and the seats of the nobility and gentry ; with the distance of each town from the general post office of London /drawn by R. Creighton ; engraved by J. Dower. Creighton, R. 1841. • ATLAS-BOOK • 4 copies available. 912.43(42)

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