Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Archival Research

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  1. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:19:06Reading tiny handwriting in naval service recordsQ&A
  2. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    1:23:55How redactions distorted the Sir Galahad inquiry recordNotable Point
  3. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    8:48:11Independent replication and archive photographs test claimsNotable Point
  4. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I
    2:06:21The circumstantial case for Royal Navy funding of the Vickers sightQ&A
  5. Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:13:44Where HMS Argus photographs may be filedQ&A
  6. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    1:19How the Royal Navy studied American Pacific battlesChapter
  7. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    36:12Why Leyte Gulf dominates the Admiralty collectionNotable Point
  8. Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?
    54:12Archive evidence sets limits on the tender counterfactualNotable Point
  9. Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?
    56:19A British loss table survived through American recordsNotable Point
  10. The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth
    1:03:44Surviving archives shape historical perspectiveNotable Point
  11. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    19:11Laughton builds the sources needed for serious naval historyNotable Point
  12. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    41:08Herbert Richmond unites technical service with naval scholarshipChapter
  13. Type 96 Mitsubishi A5M "Claude": Genesis Fighter for the WWII IJN Air Service
    50:00Why campaign histories hide older aircraft typesNotable Point
  14. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    21:50Personal papers fill gaps in the official archiveNotable Point
  15. Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 2
    52:16What Royal Navy paperwork reveals - and concealsNotable Point
  16. Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits
    33:22Reconstructing Argincourt from archives and simulation limitsNotable Point
  17. Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?
    3:54:54Archive travel and publication costs shape historical researchNotable Point
  18. HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 9
    1:04:54Why historians separate proof from beliefNotable Point
  19. Bruships 110: Naval Aviation
    1:04:12Why only some Sovetsky Soyuz names are knownQ&A
  20. Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 1980
    14:11When archival access is not permission to publishNotable Point
  21. Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine
    1:33:32How restricted evidence can guide publishable researchQ&A
  22. Some Sunday Naval Books
    11:34Finding naval archives through reference guidesNotable Point
  23. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    0:33Define what the research must explainChapter
  24. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    1:51Choose evidence for a story, fact, question, or theoryNotable Point
  25. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    3:01Use a strong book to map the sourcesChapter
  26. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    6:47Follow journal citations to primary materialNotable Point
  27. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    7:16Search catalogues broadly, then refineChapter
  28. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    11:15Read catalogue results for institutional cluesNotable Point
  29. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    13:52Plan document orders and archive visitsChapter
  30. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    15:13Contact smaller archives before travellingNotable Point
  31. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    16:58Adapt the research cycle to access rulesNotable Point
  32. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    18:11Treat travel as part of the research budgetNotable Point
  33. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    21:01Pack for practical archive workChapter
  34. Bruships 63: Trailer
    1:54Archival research and the higher direction of warChapter
  35. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    1:29:46Which naval-history subjects are hardest to research?Q&A
  36. Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat
    37:47Why historical vocabulary needs contextNotable Point
  37. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1915
    8:32Testing the Agincourt story with fragmentary evidenceNotable Point
  38. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1914
    7:26An unbuilt Brazilian capital-ship designNotable Point
  39. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?
    3:07:47How historians reason when the archive is incompleteNotable Point
  40. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    3:32:11Why Second World War records disappear from viewQ&A
  41. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    1:16:11When to stop drilling through bibliographiesQ&A
  42. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 322
    30:48Mislabeled archives may hide the missing fighterNotable Point
  43. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 322
    43:54Why paper aircraft disappear from popular historyNotable Point
  44. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    31:25Uncertain cargo and missing diplomatic recordsNotable Point
  45. SASC Video 6: Non- Laboratory Research Methodologies Advanced…
    10:16A naval historian's dissertation method in practiceNotable Point
  46. Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 2
    0:51Researching naval lives when the archives are out of reachNotable Point
  47. When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video
    51:03Reading intent from ships rather than written ordersNotable Point
  48. Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video
    29:59The archive behind the Asama Maru incidentNotable Point