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Seashaken houses : a lighthouse history from Eddystone to Fastnet /Tom Nancollas. "An enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited them. Lighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more noble, conceived as navigational gifts for the safety of all. Still today, we depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships. Nowhere is this truer than in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland: twenty towers built between 1811 and 1904, so-called because they were constructed on desolate, slippery rock formations in the middle of the sea, rising, mirage-like, straight out of the waves, with lights shining at the their summits. Seashaken Houses is a lyrical exploration of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, the ingenuity of those who conceived them, the people who risked their lives building and rebuilding them, those that inhabited their circular rooms, and the ways in which we value emblems of our history in a changing world."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.715(42)

Historical and philosophical issues in the conservation of cultural heritage / edited by Nicholas Stanley Price, M. Kirby Talley, Jr., Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro. 1996. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 75.025.4

RMS Mauretania / Andrew Britton. "This long-awaited book tells the remarkable story of the second Mauretania (1938-65): her construction, her naming, her maiden voyage and her distinguished Second World War service, told through extracts from a rare diary of a soldier. Also recalled are two exciting escapes from torpedoing by German U-boats, and the tale of how this great liner was almost lost in a high-speed collision with the SS ãIle de France, which could have resulted in catastrophic loss of life. Interviews with those who served on board, peppered with fascinating anecdotes, describe daily life on the ship, as well as the more unusual events such as royal visits. Recollections of the crew, from bell boy to captain, cover the famous Sunshine Caribbean cruises and an encounter with a hurricane in the North Atlantic, as well as her final voyage to the scrapyard. Andrew Britton's unique access to original artefacts from the Mauretania, including captains' logbooks, publicity material, menus, deck plans and much more, makes this a collection like no other. Coupled with lavish photography, including a wealth of previously unpublished colour images, the result is an evocative book that preserves the memory of this great Cunard liner for future generations."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123MAURETANIA

Scottish lighthouses : an illustrated history /Michael A. W. Strachan "Before the age of the lighthouse Scotland?s untamed seas and perilous rocky coast too often witnessed the watery end to the mariner's voyage. From its establishment in 1786, it was the remit of the Northern Lighthouse Board to tame these harsh seas with the building of guiding lights around Scotland's rugged coast 'For the Safety of All'. The history of Scotland's lighthouses would be dominated by one family of engineers. For its first 150 years, the NLB would be shaped by four generations of the Stevenson family as lighthouse builders, innovators and inventors. From humble beginnings at Kinnaird Head, this family would perfect the engineering marvels of the Bell Rock and Skerryvore, and pioneer wireless technologies into the modern age. The lighthouse story is also one of habitation on the Stevensons' creations on the extremities of civilisation as the light-keepers, and their families, lived and served on the wind-battered terrain of Scotland's edge. It was a story of survival, a unique way of life, which came and went within the pages of this history. The technological breakthroughs which began with the Stevensons advanced to automation and the end of the light-keeper. Nowadays the lights still flash, but there's nobody there. "--Provided by the publisher 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.715

The art of living under water "Mêarten Triewald was one of Sweden's most prominent scientists, combining a sharp intellect with a natural mechanical ability. The period during which he lived saw the beginnings of the industrial revolution in Sweden. He came to England in 1716, and during the next ten years was involved in designing and building some of the earliest steam engines, improving the ventilation of coal mines, and giving some of the earliest public lectures on scientific subjects. [...] He introduced a new design for the diving bell, which was the principal apparatus for diving at that time, and also an array of tools for use in salvaging wrecked ships. The Art of Living Under Water and its supplement (Use of the Art of Living Under Water) provide a unique insight into the equipment, tools and methods of diving and salvage used in the first half of the eighteenth century, and might be described as the first manual on the subject. There were very few monographs on diving published in the eighteenth century, but Triewald's book is the largest and easily the best of them. Furthermore, it is the best and most detailed book on salvage by divers written to the end of the eighteenth century, and beyond. In 2004 The Historical Diving Society published this facsimile of two of his books. This English translation is the first printing of either work since 1741, and the first edition to appear in any language other than Swedish."--Provided by the publisher. 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92TRIEWALD

Storm of the sea : Indians and empires in the Atlantic's age of sail /Matthew R. Bahar. Wabanaki communities across northeastern North America had been looking to the sea for generations before strangers from the east began arriving there in the sixteenth century. From earliest encounters to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, scattered bands of Native hunter-gatherers came together to command fleets of sailing ships and engage in strategic diplomacy, thwarting English and French imperialism. Storm of the Sea narrates how by the Atlantic's Age of Sail, the People of the Dawn were mobilizing the ocean to achieve a dominion governed by its sovereign masters and enriched by its profitable and compliant tributaries--Provided by publisher. [2019] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 974.004/9734

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, and Pepysiana Pepys, Samuel, 1893. • BOOK • 14 copies available. 92Pepys(093.32)

National Maritime Museum : annual report : 1977. National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) [1978]. • PAMPHLET • 5 copies available. 069(26:421.6)

A table of anti-logarithms : containing to seven places of decimals, natural numbers answering to all logarithms from .00001 to .99999 ; and an improved table of Gauss's logarithms, by which may be found the logarithm to the sum or difference of two quantities whose logarithms are given ; preceded by an introduction, containing also the history of logarithms, their construction, and the various improvements thereon since their invention ; with an appendix, containing a table of annuities for three joint lives at three per cent, Carlisle /by Herschell E. Filipowski. Filipowski, Herschell, 1861. • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 519.662(083.5):094

The ship asunder : a maritime history of Britain in eleven vessels /Tom Nancollas. "If Britain's seafaring history were embodied in a single ship, she might have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an anchor made of stone. We might call her Asunder, and, fantastical though she is, we could in fact find her today, scattered in fragments across the country's creeks and coastlines. In The Ship Asunder, Tom Nancollas goes in search of eleven relics that together tell the story of Britain at sea. From the swallowtail prow of a Bronze Age vessel to a stone ship moored at a Baroque quayside, each one illuminates a distinct phase of our adventures upon the waves, and each brings us close to the people, places and vessels that made a maritime nation. Weaving together stories of naval architects and shipwrights, fishermen and merchants, shipwrecks and superstition, pilgrimage, trade, slavery and war, The Ship Asunder surveys Britain's seafaring tradition in all its glory and tragedy, triumph and disaster, and asks how we might best memorialise it as it vanishes from our shores."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.20941

Inquisitive eyes : Slade painters in Edwardian Wessex /Gwen Yarker "This real contribution to the literature on artists and place is a truly fresh look not only at the Slade milieu but at the flavour of landscape painting in early twentieth century Britain. Convincingly argued, this focuses on the importance of Purbeck to some of the most important Edwardian painters. Plein air artists visiting from the 1890s saw the county through the lens of Thomas Hardy and exhibited paintings of a timeless Wessex in London. Slade tutors and students, during its Grand Epoch and 'first crisis of brilliance', mostly visited through their friendship with a friend of Hardy, the little known Dorset-born painter John Everett. Easily accessible by train from London, painters were there in the summer months leading to Augustus John's description that 'Corfe Castle and the neighbourhood would make you mad with painter's cupidity'. Up to 300 painters were attracted to this sketching ground by its unique combination of ancient barrows and mining/clay pits, and dramatic coast, over the period. Painters featured in the book include, Vanessa Bell, Charles Conder, John Everett, Roger Fry, Augustus John, Helen McNicoll, William Orpen, Philip Wilson Steer and Henry Tonks. This book is richly illustrated and has broad appeal for non-specialists interested in landscape painting, as well as to specialists interested in re-assessing artistic reputations and ideas of modernity in early twentieth century British art. A genuinely fresh look at the Slade's first crisis of brilliance, centred in Thomas Hardy's Dorset. An excellent wealth of new and unpublished material with quotes carefully selected to illuminate the interlocking lives of well- and lesser-known modern painters. This includes never before published drawings by Orpen charting the closeness of his friendship with John Everett and fellow Slade students. This story is a lost chapter in British art."--Provided by the publisher. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Among others : Blackness at MoMA /Darby English and Charlotte Barat. "Among Others: Blackness at MoMA is the first substantial exploration of a major museum's uneven historical relationship with black artists, black audiences, and the broader subject of racial blackness. Over two hundred works from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, produced either by black artists or in response to race-related subjects, are reproduced in this volume, each accompanied by newly commissioned writing from a wide array of acclaimed authors. These plates are preceded by two historical essays: the first, by Charlotte Barat and Darby English, traces the history of MoMA's encounters with race since its founding, from an early commitment to African art, and solo exhibitions devoted to artists such as William Edmondson and Jacob Lawrence, in the 1930s and 1940s, through the Museum's activities during the period of Civil Rights Movement, to the controversial 'Primitivism' show of 1984 and beyond; the second, by Mabel O. Wilson, scrutinizes MoMA's record in collecting the work of black architects and designers. Among Others confronts two kinds of truth: one factual, the other moral. Equal parts historical investigation and truth telling, this book is a searching examination of MoMA's history in the cultural politics of race."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 704.03/96

The diary of Samuel Pepys / completely transcribed by Mynors Bright, from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, with Lord Braybrooke's notes. Edited, with additions, by Henry B. Wheatley. Pepys, Samuel, 1893-99. • BOOK • 10 copies available. 92PEPYS(093.32)

Conflicting visions : war and visual culture in Britain and France, c.1700-1830 /edited by John Bonehill and Goeff Quilley. "Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France, c. 1700-1830 offers the first systematic reappraisal of the cultural representation of war in Britain and France during the 'long' eighteenth century. This radical collection of essays explores the relation of visual imagery and aesthetics to conflict during this important period, drawing upon a wealth of materials including paintings and prints, maps and topographical drawings, commemorative sculpture and historical artefacts. The intriguing case studies reveal that military conflict was not a sphere of social activity separated from artistic culture but rather a determining factor in cultural production, and that war itself was largely comprehended, debated and experienced through those products. Key themes and preoccupations - how differing ideas of the public were predicated by the representation of war; how such notions were shaped by the imperial contexts of war; the relations between conflict, national identity and historical memory - are addressed to show that war served as a primary vehicle for the representation of numerous associated and contested issues, including patriotism and the idea of the nation, loyalty and opposition, heroism and masculinity, sympathy and sensibility."--Provided by the publisher. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 008:355.48"1700/1830"

Entangled pasts, 1768-now : art, colonialism and change "Informed by ongoing research into the Royal Academy and its colonial past, the expert contributors to this handsome book explores themes of migration, exchange, artistic traditions, identity and belonging, and consider how art might help set a course for the future." 2024 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. LON-ROY

World War One aircraft carrier pioneer : the story and diaries of Captain JM McCleery RNAS-RAF /by Guy Warner. "Jack McCleery was born in Belfast in 1898, the son of a mill owning family. He joined the RNAS in 1916 as a Probationary Flight Officer. During the next ten months he completed his training at Crystal Palace, Eastchurch, Cranwell, Frieston, Calshot and Isle of Grain, flying more than a dozen landplanes, seaplanes and flying boats, gaining his wings as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant. In July 1917 he was posted to the newly commissioning aircraft carrier HMS Furious, which would be based at Scapa Flow and Rosyth. He served in this ship until February 1919, flying Short 184 seaplanes and then Sopwith 1½ Strutters off the deck. He also flew a large number of other types during this time from shore stations at Turnhouse, East Fortune and Donibristle. He served with important and well-known naval airmen including Dunning, Rutland (of Jutland) and Bell Davies VC. He witnessed Dunning's first successful landing on a carrier flying a Sopwith Pup in 1917 and his tragic death a few days later. He also witnessed the Tondern raid in 1918, the world's first carrier strike mission. He took part in more than a dozen sweeps into the North Sea by elements of the Grand Fleet and Battle Cruiser Fleet. He carried out reconnaissance missions off the coast of Denmark, landing in the sea to be picked up by waiting destroyers. He witnessed the surrender of the High Seas Fleet. Promoted to Captain, he acted as temporary CO of F Squadron for a time post-war. Guy Warner has been given access to McCleery's wartime dairy, his letters home, other memorabilia and three remarkable albums with hundreds of photos taken by Jack and others of the events described above. His intention is to edit Jack's diary and letters, to provide an introduction and conclusion and to annotate the text with explanatory details of important events, people, places, ships and aircraft."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92MCCLEERY

A history of women in astronomy and space exploration : exploring the trailblazers of STEM /Dale DeBakcsy. "For the last four hundred years, women have played a part far in excess of their numerical representation in the history of astronomical research and discovery. It was a woman who gave us our first tool for measuring the distances between stars, and another who told us for the first time what those stars were made of. It was women who first noticed the rhythmic noise of a pulsar, the temperature discrepancy that announced the existence of white dwarf stars, and the irregularities in galactic motion that informed us that the universe we see might be only a small part of the universe that exists. And yet, in spite of the magnitude of their achievements, for centuries women were treated as essentially second-class citizens within the astronomical community, contained in back rooms, forbidden from communicating with their male colleagues, provided with repetitive and menial tasks, and paid starvation wages. This book tells the tale of how, in spite of all those impediments, women managed, by sheer determination and genius, to unlock the secrets of the night sky. It is the story of some of science's most hallowed names - Maria Mitchell, Caroline Herschel, Vera Rubin, Nancy Grace Roman, and Jocelyn Bell-Burnell - and also the story of scientists whose accomplishments were great, but whose names have faded through lack of use - Queen Seondeok of Korea, who built an observatory in the 7th century that still stands today, Wang Zhenyi, who brought heliocentrism to China, Margaret Huggins, who perfected the techniques that allowed us to photograph stellar spectra and thereby completely changed the direction of modern astronomy, and Hisako Koyama, whose multi-decade study of the sun's surface is as impressive a feat of steadfast scientific dedication as it is a rigorous and valuable treasure trove of solar data. A History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration is not only a book, however, of those who study space, but of those who have ventured into it, from the fabled Mercury 13, whose attempt to join the American space program was ultimately foiled by betrayal from within, to mythical figures like Kathryn Sullivan and Sally Ride, who were not only pioneering space explorers, but scientific researchers and engineers in their own rights, aided in their work by scientists like Mamta Patel Nagaraja, who studied the effects of space upon the human body, and computer programmers like Marianne Dyson, whose simulations prepared astronauts for every possible catastrophe that can occur in space."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 520.9252

Western women travelling East, 1716-1916 / by Penelope Tuson. "The Arcadian Library in London holds one of the finest collections of writing by Western women travelling to the East. The books and manuscripts cover almost four centuries of travel and range from Mary Wortley Montagu's incomparable early eighteenth-century 'Turkish' letters to the publications of twentieth-century archaeologists, journalists, diplomatic wives and flamboyant adventurers. The best-known - for example Harriet Martineau, Lady Florentia Sale, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, Gertrude Bell and Lady Anne Blunt - are represented, alongside lesser-known European travellers such as the early Victorian writer Julia Pardoe and the Belgian-born Italian nationalist, Carla Serena. The feminist Mary Astell, on reading Mary Wortley Montagu's manuscript, commented that women could 'travel to better purpose' than men and could provide more accurate accounts of their cultural encounters. This book examines the question of whether or not women's writings reflect a special 'female gaze' and discusses the style and content of women's writing about the East and the ways in which writers negotiated and adapted their narratives to conform to their readers' expectations while often, at the same time, challenging contemporary gender roles. The subject matter is wide-ranging and eclectic. The writers' interests and opinions reflect their own cultural backgrounds but extend from conformist and unsympathetic to adventurous, subversive and open-minded. Often they were more able than male travellers to observe and appreciate cultural difference and they recorded their impressions with enthusiasm and genuine understanding. Many women travellers were also talented artists and their sketches, watercolours and photographs, reproduced extensively in this richly illustrated book, illuminate much of their writing."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 820.9/32082

Naval documents of the American revolution 1964-1996 • BOOK • 27 copies available. 355.49"1774/1777"(73)(093.2)

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