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Beachhead assault : the story of the Royal Naval Commandos in World War II /David Lee ; foreword by Tony Parsons ; preface by Ken Oakley. "The Royal Naval Commandos had one of the most dangerous and the most important tasks of any in World War II - they were first on to the invasion beaches and they were the last to leave. Formed in 1941 as the Royal Naval Beach Parties, many lost their lives during Operation Jubilee at Dieppe in 1942. Organised into units from A Commando to the all-Canadian W Commando, they became fully fledged fighting Commandos with their legendary Fairbairn Sykes commando knives. Under their officers who were designated as Beachmasters, the Royal Naval Commandos led the way in on the beaches as part of the Allied landings in Madagascar, North Africa, Pantelleria, Sicily, Salerno, the Volturno River, Anzio, Arakan, Normandy, Elba, Walcheren and Commachio. Their work on the beaches was crucial to the success of the Allied invasions. The story of the Commandos covers their beginnings early in the war and their training - both at their base, HMS Armadillo at Ardentinny in Scotland, and the famous Achnacarry Commando training school - to the invasions they spearheaded. After the War the Royal Naval Commandos were disbanded and their role was given to the Royal Marines. The personal accounts of the Royal Naval Commandos contained in this book tell the remarkable story of a remarkable but little-known group of men, ensuring that their legacy will not be forgotten."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(42)

How to care for works of art on paper / by Francis W. Dolloff and Roy L. Perkinson. Dolloff, Francis W. 1985. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 760/.028

Dark Age economics : the origins of towns and trade AD 600-1000 Hodges, Richard 1982 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 911.372.4:338(4)"6/9"

Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria : virgins, witches, and Catholic queens /Susan Dunn-Hensley. "This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria both employed powerful female archetypes such as Amazons and the Virgin Mary in court performances. Susan Dunn-Hensley analyzes how darker images of usurping, contaminating women, epitomized by the witch, often merged with these celebratory depictions. By tracing these competing representations through the Jacobean and Caroline periods, Dunn-Hensley peels back layers of misogyny from historical scholarship and points to rich new lines of inquiry. Few have written about Anna's religious beliefs, and comparing her Catholicism with Henrietta Maria's illuminates the ways in which both women were politically subversive. This book offers an important corrective to centuries of negative representation, and contributes to a fuller understanding of the role of queenship in the English Civil War and the fall of the Stuart monarchy."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.06

The Civil War in the Midlands 1642 - 1651 Sherwood, Roy 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1641/1660"(42)

White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company) Haws, Duncan 1990. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 347.792Oceanic Steam

Sir Moses Montefiore 1784-1885 Franklin, Myrtle 1984 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92Montefiore

Miniature merchant ships : a guide to waterline modelling in 1/1200 scale Bowen, John 1997 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.123:086.5

Archives : the very essence of our heritage Kitching, Christopher 1996 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 930.25

Guide to the records of Merseyside Maritime Museum/ compiled by gordon Read and Michael Stammers. Read, Gordon 1995 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 930.25:069(26:427.2)

Sea going apprentices of Grimsby : index 1879-1937 Humberside County Archive Service. South Humberside Area Archive Office 1990 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 639.2(427.4):92

Ottoman explorations of the Nile : Evliya ðCelebi's 'Matchless pearl these reports of the Nile' map and his accounts of the Nile and the Horn of Africa in The book of travels /Robert Dankoff, Nuran Tezcan, Michael D. Sheridan. "The most ambitious effort, before the time of Napoleon, to explore and map out the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map, with 450 rubrics; and a lengthy travel account. Both were achieved at about the same time - c. 1685 - and both apparently by the same man. Evliya ðCelebi's account of his Nile journeys, in Volume 10 of The Book of Travels (Seyahatname), has been known to the scholarly world since 1938. The map, in the Vatican Library, has been known to the scholarly world since 1949. A first edition of it was published in 2011. The authors of that edition, Robert Dankoff and Nuran Tezcan, demonstrated in detail that the map should be attributed to Evliya ðCelebi. The edition of the map included here (which, considered as a text, is extraordinarily challenging philologically) incorporates many new readings, bringing it a step closer to a definitive edition. This volume also contains Evliya's six journeys, his travels in Egypt and Sudan and along the Red Sea coast, as well as problems regarding dates and authenticity of the journeys. The relation of the map and The Book of Travels is analysed, including similarities and correspondences in content, language, and style, along with discrepancies between the two documents and how to account for them."--Provided by the publisher 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(496.02)

Neil Armstrong : the first man on the moon Goldsmith, Mike 2001 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92 ARMSTRONG

Ruskin, Turner, and the pre-Raphaelites / Robert Hewison, Ian Warrell, and Stephen Wildman. "John Ruskin was the first critic to make his reputation by championing contemporary art: first by defending Turner, in his book Modern Painters, and then by giving his decisive support to the avant-garde, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He bacame one of the defining voices of the nineteenth century, engaging not only in the discussion of art and architecture, but in the social issues of his age. Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, which marks the centenary of Ruskin's death, recovers his role as a contemporary critic by bringing together many of the masterpieces that he wrote about, and exploring his personal links with some of the greatest painters of the Victorian period. He was also an artist in his own right, and Ruskin's finest drawings are used to demonstrate the arguments of a critic for whom 'All great art is praise.' Also featured are many works that were in Ruskin's own art collection"--Provided by the publisher. 2000. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7RUSKIN

Titanic Adams, Simon 1999 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3TITANIC

The evolution of the sailing navy, 1509-1815 Harding, Richard 1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"15/18"(42)

Asian travel in the Renaissance "Asian Travel in the Renaissance looks at travel in Asia for the purposes of trade, colonialism, and religious conversion by a diverse array of Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and English figures. It contrasts the traditions and aspirations of rival trading companies and religious orders in the Renaissance era, describing the cultural politics of European contact with countries from Siam to Japan. The book comprises a series of essays written by international scholars, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of religious, cultural, political, and economic exchange. Subjects under scrutiny include Dutch methods of globalisation, the Jesuits' attempts to introduce European culture into China, the part played by the Far East in the English imagination, and the documentary resources available to chroniclers who recorded the journeys of their countrymen. Collectively, the essays establish the importance of Asia as a place of aspiration and experience in the early modern period."--Provided by the publisher. 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(5)"15/16"

A crew that time forgot : Rubislaw to Ruhleben /Margie Mellis and Doreen Black "On 31 July 1914 the S.S. Rubislaw sailed from Aberdeen on her regular voyage to the German port of Hamburg. On board were eighteen of a crew and nine passengers. It would be, however, many years before most of these people would see home again. This is their remarkable story and how some of them helped create gardens in a barren prison camp."--Back cover. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123RUBISLAW

Persuading the people Osley, Anthony 1995 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 940.548.8

British Shipping Fleets : Volume 2 /editors: Roy Fenton and John Clarkson, contributors: Tony Atkinson, Malcolm Cooper, Bill Harvey, Bill Laxon Fenton, R. S. 2008 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 347.792

Science : a four thousand year history /Patricia Fara. Fara, Patricia. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 5(091)

Maritime Supremacy and the opening of the western mind : naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1588-1782 Padfield, Peter 1999 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.02(42)"1588/1782"

Coal, steam and ships : engineering, enterprise and empire on the nineteenth-century seas /Crosbie Smith. "Crosbie Smith explores the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers, proprietors and the public. Eyewitness accounts show in rich detail how these enterprises engineered their ships, constructed empire-wide systems of steam navigation and won or lost public confidence in the process. Controlling recalcitrant elements within and around steamship systems, however, presented constant challenges to company managers as they attempted to build trust and confidence. Managers thus wrestled to control shipbuilding and marine engine-making, coal consumption, quality and supply, shipboard discipline, religious readings, relations with the Admiralty and government, anxious proprietors, and the media - especially following a disaster or accident. Emphasizing interconnections between maritime history, the history of engineering and Victorian thought, Smith's innovative history of early ocean steamships reveals the fraught uncertainties of Victorian life on the seas."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.2

Barbarian eye : Lord Napier in China 1834 "This book tells the story of William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier of Merchiston, who was sent to China in 1834, not to stop the opium smuggling (by which all local officials profited hugely), but to seek a settlement between the British sea-traders and the Cantonese authorities. Known at home as a brave and sensible sailor who had started his career at Trafalgar, William John was noted for his calm and patience. He was at once seen by the Chinese authorities as a dangerous spy - a 'Barbarian Eye'. The Viceroy Loo of Canton declined to accept Napier's credentials from King William IV and replied to his efforts at communication by adapting the syllables of his name - Nay Peer into the the rudest possible translation - Vile Labouring Beast, (or Laboriously Vile for short). Napier did not mind this but he did mind the Viceroy's refusal to enter into dialogue. All was frustration, but he continued to try for agreement until struck down by a local fever. However, Lord Napier noticed a rocky island occupied by only a few fishermen's families, and guarding one of the finest natural harbours in the world. Why not, without bloodshed, arrange to trade from there, rather than up the river at Canton, where ships could be boxed in at whim? The island was called Hong Kong. Though biographical in character, based largely upon Lord Napier's own letters and journals, the book gives an admirable insight into the story of Western contacts over the centuries with the world's oldest and surely most remarkable civilisation and a charming description of life in England and Scotland in the early 19th century, including life in the court of King William IV, Lord Napier's close friend and master."--Provided by the publisher. 1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 951.08"1834"(512.317)

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