A New Naval History

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

List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors

Introduction
Quintin Colville and James Davey

Part I Sociocultural analyses of the Royal Navy


1 Particular skills: warrant officers in the Royal Navy, 1775–1815
Evan Wilson
2 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 fleet
Mary Conley
4 Navy, nation and empire: nineteenth-century photographs of the British naval community overseas
Cindy McCreery
5 Salt water in the blood: race, indigenous naval recruitment and British colonialism, 1934–41
Daniel Owen Spence

Part II Representations of the Royal Navy


6 Memorialising Anson, the fighting explorer: a case study in eighteenth-century naval commemoration and material culture
Katherine Parker
7 The apotheosis of Nelson in the National Gallery of Naval Art
Cicely Robinson
8 Naval heroism in the mid-Victorian family magazine
Barbara Korte
9 ‘What is the British Navy doing?’ The Royal Navy’s image problem in War Illustrated magazine
Jonathan Rayner
10 Patriotism and pageantry: representations of Britain’s naval past at the Greenwich Night Pageant, 1933
Emma Hanna

Afterword: Britain and the sea: new histories
Jan Rüger -- .