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Author, musician, actor and father currently doing MA Naval History. Love to talk about the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail and Exploration, and who was the best Mr. Darcy...Matthew Macfadyen, if you were wondering! 😉
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Taxidermy (9)
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That is a rather terrifying photo... 😳
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Rigmarole.
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I picked this one up from an antique shop about 20 years ago. Know absolutely nothing of its history but I love every bit of it. She looks so alive, it's like it could have been taken yesterday.
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Is this in case your houseboat accidentally goes over the Niagara Falls?
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Thank you so much for this. Brilliant 👏
And Churchill had the audacity to say of his signal, "So far as the English Language may serve as a vehicle of thought, the words employed appear to express the intentions we had formed."
Much of 'World Crisis' is a defence of the indefensible.
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The album cover is just as bad!
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One to avoid then? 😅
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Thank you. I will admit that when first approached to write and record the music for an entire play in under ten weeks, I was a little daunted (read: so anxious I didn't sleep), especially as the only formal teaching I've had in music was in middle school, but it's come together like a dream 😊
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Same with Lucy Daniels (the Animal Ark books). The single author creates brand loyalty, especially among children. The irony is that kids at school teased me for reading Nancy Drew, but they were written by the same people at the same company using the same template as The Hardy Boys! 🤷
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It sounds horrendous, but to marketing men books are always "product". I became an author because as a child I wanted to be Franklin W. Dixon of Hardy Boys fame. I later discovered a syndicate hired a bunch of ghostwriters on a book-by-book basis to churn them out using a template. Nancy Drew too 🤦♂️
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Re the dissertation, I'm hoping to do it on the stress facing commanders during voyages of discovery/surveying, provided there are enough sources. Cook, Stokes, Fitzroy and Wilkes saw personality changes, breakdowns and suicide from the pressure. I'm fascinated by the human element in #navalhistory
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It flew by, but I feel I'm now very much an expert on Nelson, Collingwood, Trafalgar, the Anglo-German Naval Arms Race, Troubridge and the Goeben, Coronel, Beatty and Jutland. The access to articles and books, and especially the primary sources of the Navy Records Society, is outstanding! 🫡
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You're welcome, you showed me the First World War wasn't just about Dogger Bank/Jutland. Your episodes on Coronel and the Dardenelles inspired my latest essay on the problems of Admiralty micromanagement.
Regarding topics for the podcast, I'm now writing a play about Troubridge and the Goeben... 🤔
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Hi, just wanted to thank you for your podcast. I'm doing MA Naval History at Portsmouth and as my expertise is on the sailing navy, I was dreading the module on the dreadnought era. Your episodes gave me a way into the time period and now I'm trying to figure out how to work Cradock into my thesis 👍
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I'll admit that I'm a little relieved the last essay for Year 1 is done as I can relax for a couple of months and start reading books for pleasure again 😊
My autism means I've gone truly overboard on the essays. Referenced 15 primary & 27 secondary sources on this one and I'm blooming exhausted!
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Now is not the time to have a history degree, an anxiety disorder and a scrolling addiction!
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I was on there yesterday afternoon. They were doing "scheduled maintenance". At first it worked...then it went really slow...then it stopped altogether 🤔
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Gosh I love those transitional period designs...sails and steam, the old and the new. Beautiful 😍
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It wasn't so serene yesterday 😉
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#navalhistory
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I have to say, I am loving your podcast. Just listened to Coronel, now I'm onto the Falklands. I'm doing an MA Naval History and we're approaching WWI so I've been cramming up on the cruiser war, which I know is one of your specialties 😉 So much more interesting to me than Jutland.
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Wow. I'm a little ashamed to say I've never been inside St Paul's but I'm definitely going to visit next time I head up to the National Maritime Museum.
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I knew her Paymaster. I remember him telling me stories of serving in HMS Pepperpot and the friends he lost when she sank. He kept close contact with the other survivors. He was the life and soul of the party and when he passed in 2003, we all lost something. So here's to Commander Collard 🍷
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First edition! My gosh, that's amazing 👏 🤩
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I love the background. It reminds me of this boardgame c.1900 depicting Nansen's Expedition to the North Pole.
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I took 125 photographs and came across some of Nelson's hair in an envelope, so it was definitely interesting 😄
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Cost me £38 return from Poole on National Express and Uber Boat, but that necessitated leaving home at 5:15am and returning at 23:15. Very long day but the cheapest I could make it.
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At first I thought this was a map of Europe, Africa and Asia!
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So long as Stanley Tucci is involved, it'll be entertaining 😄
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Which ship is this?
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What a picture! 📸
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Very involved. My heart broke for poor Admiral Collingwood and his yearning for home. But I have to remind myself to remain objective...however much I can.
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As I balding British amateur actor, I have to say I hate it. Too old and unattractive to play a Mr. Darcy, too young and slim to be a Mr. Bennett. My last three plays I've been a policeman 👮♂️
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Doing something unspeakable to something a very long way away 🤣🤣🤣
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Seems somewhat risky 🤔
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Thank you 😁
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One due March, one due April, and then we can breathe again! I for one have been living, breathing, eating, sleeping and dreaming Trafalgar for a month now...I need some blooming rest! 🤣
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if they did - & they were so close that the English often tried to wrest the sponges from the Frenchmen as they were loading their guns -. The French adopted a new mode of fighting - in their lower deck they had marines stationed at the ports to fire at our men with ball while they were loading" 2/2