Letters of seamen below the rank of commissioned officer which tell us a great deal about shipboard life and about seamen's attitudes.

A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new ene

Overturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century.

Jeremy Black charts the story of Britain's rise to naval supremacy across the long eighteenth century.

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest w