... Malaysia Singapore Spratlys TPP ASEAN China USA Navy From Taiwan southwards the US’s strategic position relies on the support of countries along an arc around the South China Sea extending through the Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia to Singapore. Throughout the Cold War these long-standing...

... a key role in turning the Sea into a global security hotspot. The chapter argues that it is primarily down to the Philippines that the US has been able to reestablish its presence and become a key actor in the South China Sea, justifying a stepped up US navy presence. Aquino III Benigno ASEAN...

... ‘recaptives’ Sierra Leone slaves imperialism Gilroy Paul Indian Ocean Slavery Slave Trade Britain Empire Atlantic African Caribbean Navy This study provides fresh perspectives on critical aspects of the British Royal Navy’s suppression of the Atlantic slave trade. It is divided into three...

... Commander Walter apprenticeships freedom meanings of imperialism Princes Island Wilmot Commodore Arthur Parry Eardley Elliot Commander George Augustus emigration McClement Richard Carr Navy Slave Trade Sailors Emotion Empire Memoir Literature Personal testimonies of daily life on the West...

... Christopher Emma Jackson William Niger Expedition 1841 United States West Indies Jamaica Ginlette Hart St Helena Farnaley James Johnston W surgeon Ogden John Accra economic considerations Medicine Slave Trade Africa Race African Navy Sailors Health Nineteenth-century medical journals...

... Memory Commemoration Slave Trade Navy Britain Abolition Bicentenary Museums Parliament History In 1832, a small envelope was sent to the Admiralty in London from the coast of West Africa. Contained inside it was a handful of brown dust, described as the ‘testings’ taken from the timbers of HMS...

...This article examines the ways that the British Admiralty treated both acts and allegations of indecency during the early twentieth century. Despite the trope of the gay sailor, remarkably little attention has been devoted to the history of homosexuality in the Victorian and Edwardian British navy...

... of officers, women and children at naval picnics, photographs of dead officers as well as commemorative photographs of officers visiting Napoleon’s former tomb in St. Helena and Sir John Moore’s tomb at Corunna indicate the links made between the past and the present, and between, navy, nation and empire...

...The British Empire reached its greatest extent at the end of the First World War, but the Royal Navy’s ability to uphold Britain’s global interests was limited by economic downturn and the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty. To mitigate this imperial overstretch, over 40,000 Asian, African, Caribbean...

... Revolutionary Wars 1792–1802 Moore Stephen Napoleonic Wars 1803–15 Royal Navy commemoration Fellow of the Royal Society HMS Centurion Royal Marines Sandwich Lord Saumarez Philip Saunders Charles Yorke Elizabeth Callis Smith Howe Lord Stuart James ‘Athenian’ ballads War of the Austrian Succession...

... Rodger N A M Royal Navy World War Bridge Cyprian Corbett Julian Braudel Fernand Colley Linda naval history renaissance of Britain Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean Navy nation historiography society culture A century ago it was universally accepted by the educated world that naval history...

... ARP Act 1937 bombardment Ministry of Home Security Make do and Mend wardens police King George VI masculinity medals St Paul’s Cathedral Morrison Herbert childhood dolls uniforms Civil Defence Civil Defence Day home front heroism collective khaki navy bluette On 27 August 1941...

... of Industrial Psychology NIIP Royal Institution Wace E G Crichton Miller Hugh Culpin Millais ‘scientific management’ British Psycho Analytical Society Edgerton David Freud Sigmund Rockefeller Foundation Royal Air Force RAF Royal Navy British Army Parry John B tests used for military selection...

...Historians of the Royal Navy in the age of sail have focused their attention on two groups of men: the commissioned officers and the lower deck. Few have bothered to study the men in the middle: the warrant officers, whose particular skills were necessary on board. Masters, pursers, chaplains...

... and explores the way that the couple dealt with separation through their correspondence. The intertwining of family, navy and nation in the Fremantles’ correspondence – striving to establish themselves and better their families’ future prospects – is representative of many ambitious naval couples of the time...

...This paper examines the problematic representation of the Royal Navy and its war roles in the popular magazine War Illustrated, between the outbreak of the First World War and the Battle of Jutland. The difficulties affecting the illustration of the Navy’s contribution...

... Victoria Queen National Maritime Museum NMM Callender Geoffrey cult of the navy European culture Nazis rise of Hitler Adolf National Socialists Party Germany naval public theatre naval theatre Old Contemptibles Association The Popular Front Thingspiel Thingplay Whitebait Ministerial Dinner...

...This concluding chapter emphasises the role of ships in migrant journeys and the symbolic importance of the ship as a transporter of people from persecution and exploitation to freedom and acceptance. It summarises the refugee escape to Britain, the role of the Navy in the suppression of slave...

... Stowe Harriet Beecher trade Anthropological Society of London Burton Richard Francis emigration ethnology Hunt James Ballantyne R M Brown William Wells Child Lydia Maria Delaney Martin Douglass Frederick Kingston W H G Slave Trade Anti-Slavery Abolition Travel Literature Fiction Navy...