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- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live10:26Short history guides and testing the full argumentNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:42:18The cost of access to specialist naval informationNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:48:15Checking the aircraft in a carrier air groupNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?8:53Reading treaty decisions through contemporary evidenceNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?30:26Where historical counterfactuals hand over to wargamingNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:20Why an isolated quotation can misrepresent someone's viewsNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:51:27Reading exercise manuals as historical evidenceNotable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:46:26Historical argument as training in critical thinkingNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:15:23Teaching Vitruvius when a student denies Roman historyQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:39Why a surviving ship design may document an objectionNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:05:31Kissinger's memoirs and information in foreign-policy analysisNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:05:26Alternate history as evidence-based scenario analysisNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:15:16Why containerisation has no single completion dateNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:32:31How hindsight changes the reputation of Japan's 1914 naval scandalQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:57How to weigh conflicting firsthand military accountsQ&A
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:10:09Historical distance matters when interpreting interwar BritainNotable Point
- What if Hawaii became a British Protectorate in 1824?32:12Why the counterfactual stops before distant outcomesNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)35:18Reading Kipling beyond East and WestNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:44:55Counterfactual detail weakens as assumptions accumulateQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:16:39The scenario stops when operational guesses begin compoundingNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:44:46Yonai would represent a different military factionQ&A
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?1:05:36The HMS Diana and HMS Decoy story remains unconfirmedNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?42:26Counterfactuals before they become fictionNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:41:58Where the carrier counterfactual stops being usefulNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...7:55Why historical knowledge remains a balance of probabilitiesNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:38:38Why sharing history also requires admitting uncertaintyNotable Point
- Myth vs Reality: does it matter for learning History?0:00Why myths can help teach historyChapter
- Myth vs Reality: does it matter for learning History?0:40Sparta as a gateway to the Greek worldNotable Point
- Myth vs Reality: does it matter for learning History?2:19Myth as a gateway to historical realityChapter
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:11Reused Soviet project numbers and disputed design datesQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:35:31Why small-class surveys need source criticismNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor34:48Family testimony shapes Alex Clarke's judgment of SempillNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:32Looking for US Navy records on HanazukiQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:33The skill and research behind restoring ship photographsQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:15:33Why military experience needs to be kept currentNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:29:38Why diplomatic models need human psychologyNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:23How research funding shapes the naval-history books that appearNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More0:00How naval theorists sell sea powerChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More6:33Why impressment claims are hard to verifyNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More17:18Nationality papers and competing estimates of impressmentNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More22:14Roosevelt's evidence shifts from impressment to confiscationNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More33:35Preparedness beyond the frigate victoriesChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More37:55Roosevelt compares American, British, and French single-ship actionsNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More53:06Reaching historical audiences beyond booksNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More57:25How Sims and Hendrick explained the submarine war to civiliansNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:04:42Troopship success undercuts German promisesChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:22:26A recollection of selective Mahan quotation in CongressNotable Point
- why do historians seem to become nutty professors so easily?0:00Why historians seek unusual practical experiencesQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:18:11What universal translation would unlock for historiansQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:23:20Black Sea geography behind the Argonauts' storyQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:26:43Testing the Lemnos 'island of women' episode against social historyNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global19:53Finding the naval acts among thousands of scanned pagesNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global44:26Defense budgets leave very different archival trailsNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global53:29Wickes was the fourteenth of its class to commissionNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:09:30Clemson design predated meaningful Wickes-class serviceNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live1:49:20Detailed extrapolation becomes less useful beyond early 1942Notable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:18:47Memoirs can shift blame after another participant's deathNotable Point
- Why do Historians talk about 'mists of time'?0:00Why the historical record becomes mistyChapter
- Why do Historians talk about 'mists of time'?0:55Inference where the evidence has gapsNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:18Explaining historical research without specialist shorthandNotable Point
- why do Historians get called by lawyers2:26Using colonial archives to reconstruct an agreementNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order24:14Evidence makes historical disagreement usefulNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...37:09D. K. Brown and professional loyalties in naval historyNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers48:04Transitional destroyer classes reveal development between the famous designsNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers49:17Historical training, uncomfortable evidence, and constructive disagreementNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:12Using Wikipedia as a research starting pointNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:13Public military specifications and the limits of a discussion ruleNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:32Distinguishing operational analysis from expertise in domestic politicsNotable Point
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- Navy Food: A Beginning20:21Chiefs as keepers of shipboard knowledgeNotable Point
- Navy Food: A Beginning21:25Cooking naval history from old cookbooksNotable Point
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- Trumps Battleship; A Naval History view on what we know of the Defiant Class so far36:09Using Wikipedia to find accountable sourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:24Questioning the claim that George V foresaw Edward's failureNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit13:24National histories can hide who actually makes policyNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit36:57Blackadder and Alan Clark shaped the image of World War INotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit58:01The Western Front can obscure the war's other campaignsChapter
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit1:58:20Women's correspondence offers evidence of social change after service in FranceNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:17:31"Over by Christmas" lacks the official source memory gives itChapter
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:20:43Peanuts helped fix the Red Baron and Sopwith Camel in memoryNotable Point
- Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi10:35Separating historical evidence from the author's interpretationNotable Point
- Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi15:11What history is Glynn Stewart reading?Q&A
- Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi22:38Using Royal Navy Pacific history to teach methodologyChapter
- Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi46:08Fiction makes explicit what historians must inferChapter
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off43:30Building a naval biography from personal evidenceQ&A
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off1:23:55How redactions distorted the Sir Galahad inquiry recordNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War6:31:06Why an organization's public reputation can conceal capabilityNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War6:44:06Why the Cold War can distort views of earlier disorderQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War6:53:07Shaped-charge demonstrations and the incentives behind testsNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War7:56:54Perry's squadron and an uncertain ship classificationQ&A
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- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:02Project Ark Royal was an option study, not a programNotable Point
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- Historians: doomed to watch others repeat mistakes?0:00Technology changes methods, not judgmentNotable Point
- Historians: doomed to watch others repeat mistakes?1:02Why quantitative proof needs qualitative contextNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...0:40Judging Carter with the information available to himNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...9:08Presidential biography as rules-of-engagement contextNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...14:49Reading a president's naval record criticallyNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...16:42Using naval habits without turning Carter into a saintNotable Point
- Why do Historians sigh when they hear the words "But this is what I was taught at school"0:00Why school history is necessarily selectiveChapter
- Why do Historians sigh when they hear the words "But this is what I was taught at school"0:48War aims and factions within statesNotable Point
- Why do Historians sigh when they hear the words "But this is what I was taught at school"2:11History as lifelong studyNotable Point
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- Historians: Knowledge vs Wisdom debate0:00Knowledge and wisdom in historical studyQ&A
- Historians: Knowledge vs Wisdom debate1:41Historical analysis tests new solutions against past failuresChapter
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- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)... defeating the first Armada?49:06Chronicles carry the battle where archaeology cannotNotable Point
- Why do Historians like to visit the History?0:00Why historians seek out physical historyQ&A
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- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:25:16How to weigh crew memories against ship-condition surveysQ&A
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...31:30Operation MB8 as a fleet logistics systemChapter
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...49:36Source base for reconstructing carrier air groupsNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:05:12Why soldiers at Dunkirk thought the RAF was absentQ&A
- Historians Why does Geography Matter?0:00Geography makes history easier to reason aboutChapter
- Historians Why does Geography Matter?1:12Better geography produces better historical lessonsNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:48A truthful Warhammer interview and the problem of perspectiveQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:56Why interview the Emperor when his reasoning seems known?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:19Would a truthful Emperor still give a usable account?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:23:50A reading path into Suleyman's Ottoman expansionQ&A
- École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy30:05The academy moves ashore, suffers war damage, and rebuildsChapter
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:52Historical figures whose private judgments remain elusiveQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:39Why reconstructing the Sea Peoples is difficultNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:35:04How national framing narrows naval historyNotable Point
- Why Historians make great & terrible customers0:00Research habits beyond the archiveChapter
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:09:10Museum ships preserve what plans omitQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:36:54Ask whether you need a datum or an analysisNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:40:37Evidence, relevance, and fair assessmentNotable Point
- Why Historians don't use Wikipedia?0:00Why historians do not cite WikipediaQ&A
- Why Historians don't use Wikipedia?1:10Wikipedia as a research starting pointNotable Point
- Why Historians don't use Wikipedia?1:40Citation styles and the flow of an argumentQ&A
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- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:50Reading Moffett's flight-deck cruiser in its own timeNotable Point
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada7:23How wider grievances build support for warNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy44:09Conflicting records complicate Gorshkov's wartime biographyNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy2:05:29Source bias begins with what evidence a historian can reachNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy2:27:15Why a few historical figures supply quotations for every subjectNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy2:35:06AI history still requires evidence-based human disagreementQ&A
- Battle of Dornach(1499)16:12How Swiss pike warfare informed naval boardingNotable Point
- Battle of Dornach(1499)22:15Inside the Swiss Haufen pike-square systemChapter
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:24:43Steve's alternative reading of the Stamford Bridge battlefieldNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:28:56Why hard-fought convoys dominate Atlantic historiesNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:34:33Historical evidence without personal participationNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:42:34How short news formats limit specialist explanationsNotable Point
- Why Historians approach sources differently to Journalists0:00Why journalists can use anonymous sources but historians cannotQ&A
- Why Historians approach sources differently to Journalists1:33Anonymous newspaper sources turn historians into detectivesNotable Point
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- Why do Historians like to Name things?0:00Why historians use named eras instead of dates aloneQ&A
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- Scuttlebutt 12: Not Pocket Battleships, No Guadalcanal and a load of Submarine Signals?59:20Counterfactual history tests the weight of decisionsNotable Point
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:51:38Approaching politically sensitive naval historyQ&A
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- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?17:35Plan Z was a moving program, not one fixed blueprintNotable Point
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?24:23Separating Hitler's rhetoric from operational intentNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:01Destroyer tow proposals and the limits of personal archival accountsQ&A
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- Why Historians are careful with Personal Accounts of events... it's Perspective! #history0:58A memoir can preserve evidence of an internal debateNotable Point
- Why Historians are careful with Personal Accounts of events... it's Perspective! #history1:27What a source's silence can revealChapter
- Why Historians are careful with Personal Accounts of events... it's Perspective! #history2:01A provable lie can illuminate guiltNotable Point
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- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:28:18Reading Japanese planning documents as public positionsNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...2:06:41Memoir errors and accusations of dishonestyNotable Point
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- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...7:01Did Royal Navy manning shortages help cancel CVA-01?Q&A
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- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...52:28Why Vian's autobiography matters as leadership evidenceNotable Point
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- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin1:43:48Why naval historians must work as generalistsNotable Point
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- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:56:53Why wartime reporting and memoirs require source criticismNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:34Reading military history without accepting every interpretationQ&A
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- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:25What HMAS Vampire's machinery spaces revealNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:05:54Why early judgments of the F-47 are unreliableQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:43:34An unresolved illness pattern among senior Royal Navy officersNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:16:58Judging the Swordfish in its own design periodNotable Point
- Making Gallipoli Look Competent: The 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias4:49Jenkins' ear, smuggling, and an extractive Spanish EmpireChapter
- Making Gallipoli Look Competent: The 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias18:15Reading military comedy without forgetting its human costNotable Point
- Making Gallipoli Look Competent: The 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias1:04:43Use overlooked wars to keep studying military historyNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?0:52Using Henderson and Fisher to test which decisions matteredChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?8:07Archives recover Henderson from Chatfield's selective memoryNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?30:13Counterfactuals test which decisions actually caused changeNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:46Why a world without the Vietnam War is not one counterfactualQ&A
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…39:58Reconstructing decisions from incomplete battle recordsNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes8:33Judging Rodney in his own centuryNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes1:24:27The disputed recapture of two Spanish prizesNotable Point
- Paulet Affair of 1843: When the Royal Navy found itself in charge of Hawaii1:14:31How to read nineteenth-century diplomatic boilerplateNotable Point
- Could Teddy Roosevelt do a Naval Treaty in 1909 & if so what might it be like?7:16Roosevelt as a media-era world statesmanNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?54:12Archive evidence sets limits on the tender counterfactualNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?56:19A British loss table survived through American recordsNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?1:10:20Persuasion and bias can explain puzzling historical decisionsNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?1:13:37Merchant-hull dependence exposes the preparation gapNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!11:41Why Rodney's exact birthday remains uncertainNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!5:47Using counterfactuals to recover hidden planning assumptionsNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...2:15:18Alternate history as a tool for testing causationNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...34:05Why Tōgō's first command is difficult to dateNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...35:12Why translated sources need cultural contextNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...42:02Using naval history to debate a serving navyNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:46:26Checking the first report of HMS AchillesNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!21:32Is historical reconstruction dangerous when evidence is missing?Q&A
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!23:03Reconstructing an unbuilt Queen Elizabeth-class battleshipNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!25:20Why autobiographies do not settle historical motivesNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience4:11:30Source availability shapes what can be taught fairlyNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience4:29:03Why historical judgment is more than collecting factsNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)30:29Why a disputed photograph of Jadar is withheldNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:32:30Why Stonehenge's henge classification is disputedNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:41:17Ancient engineering and the limits of modern technology comparisonsNotable Point
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral4:38Why England's admiralty records survived political upheavalNotable Point
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral12:11The apparent gap in England's admiralty recordChapter
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral18:45How to read fragmentary and image-rich medieval sourcesNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 612:54Museum work teaches historians how public history functionsNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 629:48Presentism and new labels can conceal older strategic ideasNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 634:17Why Corbett is often easier to read than MahanNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 650:18Structured disagreement reveals where Mahan and Corbett agreeNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 652:31How historians present a strong inference without claiming proofNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 658:05Mahan's religion complicates a simple account of his racial viewsNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:32:12Historical research explains how naval adaptation worksNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force37:29Saracen and Crusader show how routine service disappears from the recordNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force45:31Why did sold Royal Navy destroyers remain intact for years?Notable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force46:34HMS Amazon's speed story as a lesson in source criticismNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force49:54HMS Nubian and the problem with official speed figuresNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 315:45Why specialist reporting matters to naval lessonsNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates22:22How archival limits shape Commonwealth naval historyNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates1:20:33Building a museum guidebook from visitor questionsNotable Point
- Santa's Sleigh... A Quick History - Key Aircraft Series 3, Aircraft 311:14Reading historical speed claims in their own contextNotable Point
- Battle of Elli2:11:29What supports claims of a Greek battlecruiser programme?Notable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:18:21Why a contemporary error can remain valuable evidenceNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 936:23How carrier-hull research led back to Tiger's machineryNotable Point
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 358:24Forecasts guide judgment without predicting the futureNotable Point
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 31:20:33Broad frameworks and real history give fictional fleets depthQ&A
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 31:35:11Ship visits can correct damage-control reportingNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:05:57A casualty threshold shapes the ten-day sampleNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:37:55Recurring lessons from ten days of submarine sinkingsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...24:58Why historical interpretations should change with the evidenceNotable Point
- Battle of Chattanooga(1863)0:00The Civil War is a source-rich laboratory for modern warNotable Point
- Battle of Chattanooga(1863)37:29Lincoln and McClellan remembered the same meeting differentlyNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:32:06How to write a naval-policy alternate historyQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:21:55Why one warship could hold hundreds of viewpointsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:47:57Why the essay competition used a different rubricQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:51:18Future history books as a warning to HirohitoQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:42:35How archive staff and ship registers reveal vessel historiesNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:56:39Why historical naval language can mislead modern readersNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:19:56Corbett, Mahan, and Laughton as naval-history interlocutorsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:46:31The disappearance of the Classis BritannicaQ&A
- Historiophon & Christmas Season Announcement/Schedules20:35When a leadership profile requires archival researchNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax47:09Why legal training transfers well to historical researchNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!1:41Why historians should engage with the public onlineChapter
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!22:04Why historical corrections need inspectable sourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!28:21History teaching as training in source analysisNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:24:56Exploration often meant finding routes to known placesNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:35:18Using alternate fleets to teach naval strategyQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!4:36:37The oldest navy depends on definitions and datesQ&A
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers49:18How published primary sources guide archive researchNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...1:14:25Strategy history preserves lessons paid for in bloodNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...1:46:20Academic disagreement trains historians to defend evidenceNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII16:37Historical layers change interpretation, not eventsNotable Point
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!20:35Why technical expertise matters when judging espionage claimsNotable Point
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!31:02Why published warship specifications need cautionNotable Point
- Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carriers: Smoking the Mazut27:25Liaoning's named designers and the source problemNotable Point
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:52:57Alternate history as a test of historical causationNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!2:04Why thematic naval history can reveal more than strict chronologyNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!5:38Why political naval history resists simple moral categoriesNotable Point
- For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped?22:21Why written accounts cannot replace a surviving hullNotable Point
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage1:34:41Hubris and complacency can explain strategic surpriseNotable Point
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage2:12:23Why successful deterrence is hard to proveNotable Point
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier45:03The alleged sinking of Invincible fails a practical source testNotable Point
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier1:25:39Public-source boundaries limit modern warship comparisonsNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...41:07Postwar budget comparisons need operational contextNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...45:31The Wikipedia rule for modern military specificationsNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s0:58Using alternate history to examine real decisionsChapter
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:00:53Why historical analysis uses period place namesNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:56:24Why published warship top speeds need normalizationQ&A
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...49:01German missile names point to patrons and uncertain sourcesNotable Point
- HOI4 Practice for the Ship Shape Game - Democratic Japan Challenge Rounds 1 & 22:57:25Commercial strategy games and historical simulationQ&A
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!1:28:36Translation tools still require cultural and historical checksNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:34:18Independent research and borrowed conclusionsNotable Point
- Ilyushin DB-3 & Il-4: Great Patriotic War Soviet Torpedo Bombers - Key Aircraft Series 2,38:12Good translations expose literal and contextual choicesChapter
- Ilyushin DB-3 & Il-4: Great Patriotic War Soviet Torpedo Bombers - Key Aircraft Series 2,43:20Authoritarian readiness claims create a source dilemmaNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 59:18Public history, evidence, and interpretationNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class3:19A context-first method for judging naval doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:41:28Why early admirals would still build battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered33:20Where translation tools stop helping with historical handwritingQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered45:33Tracing Yonai's postwar influence through personal networksNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered1:36:21How far back can plausible Atlantic crossings be traced?Q&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off18:38Sharing history without talking down to newcomersQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends5:15Why naval chronology should be checked before making a claimQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends22:02Naval abbreviations are often historian-made conventionsNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends46:16Matching historical sources to the research questionNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:17:21Where alternate-history predictions lose confidenceNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation: A Quick Historical Overview & Introduction to it's Squadrons1:36An accessible survey of French naval historyNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation: A Quick Historical Overview & Introduction to it's Squadrons49:03Where to continue researching French naval aviationNotable Point
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier21:38Three warning signs in historical argumentNotable Point
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier1:22:20Using Wikipedia as a lead rather than a sourceNotable Point
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 150:23W.27 and W.32 airframe and engine trialsChapter
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 153:43Why translated sources cannot settle every prototype countNotable Point
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 11:16:38W.33 service in Japan and the limits of the evidenceChapter
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 11:19:30Latvia's two W.33s and a disputed rebuildNotable Point
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 11:20:11Why W.33 performance figures depend on the engineNotable Point
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:46:17How rigorous debate separates ideas from peopleNotable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier2:31:14What track and power did Akron's handling locomotives use?Q&A
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier2:56:50Did conspiracy or command pressure send Akron into the storm?Q&A
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier3:05:54What can the surviving evidence say about Akron's last descent?Notable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier3:15:08Could Akron have climbed above the fatal storm?Q&A
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers0:28Japanese carrier history lacks a single reference baselineNotable Point
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 19385:45How AI repeats national naval stereotypesNotable Point
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193859:48Applying the method to Star Trek ship designNotable Point
- Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: Impression vs Reality - Key Aicraft Series 1, Aircraft 1015:21What the Helldiver's performance figures actually showNotable Point
- Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: Impression vs Reality - Key Aicraft Series 1, Aircraft 1023:21What the Albacore says about first impressionsNotable Point
- Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: Impression vs Reality - Key Aicraft Series 1, Aircraft 101:08:56The Helldiver's procurement lessonChapter
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!0:25Why treaty collapse is the baselineNotable Point
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!20:33Why Stalin might enter the London Naval ConferenceChapter
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!1:18:15Japanese expansion and the limits of forecastingNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 60:00The treaty uncertainty behind a forgotten battleship generationChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:09:16Unresearched comparisons and naval exceptionalismQ&A
- So you want to be a youtube Historian?20:25Researching beyond a naval-history specialtyChapter
- So you want to be a youtube Historian?26:57Setting limits on live historical answersNotable Point
- So you want to be a youtube Historian?32:13Testing a Waterloo financial conspiracy storyChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait4:01:49The claim that Americans formed most of the New Model Army fails a scale checkNotable Point
- Navys in the Embassy Bar after the Washington Treaty(1922)14:02Historical teaching through options and contextNotable Point
- The Last Invasion of Britain: Battle of Fishguard(1797)2:51:36How to build a naval alternate-history questionQ&A
- HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution49:12Using counterfactuals to uncover historical prioritiesNotable Point
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 350:02The evidence for preplanned Glen conversions remains circumstantialNotable Point
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI2:05:22When an alternate-history projection loses its reference pointsNotable Point
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI2:31:34How to assess claims about the Romanov daughtersNotable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:50:27Alternate history works best near the point of divergenceNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:52:31How to structure evidence-led historical thinkingNotable Point
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19423:41:26Why surviving Japanese documents need archival contextNotable Point
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19424:13:42How an inquiry's structure affects the presentation of evidenceNotable Point
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development21:50Personal papers fill gaps in the official archiveNotable Point
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:23:35University teaching should build independent judgmentNotable Point
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?1:05:28Alternate history exposes real naval compromisesNotable Point
- Naval History Writing Competition 2023/20243:41Keeping naval alternate history close to real constraintsNotable Point
- Naval History Writing Competition 2023/20245:38Balancing historical reasoning with naval storytellingChapter
- Naval History Writing Competition 2023/20248:08Why the scenario needs 3,000 to 10,000 wordsChapter
- Naval History Writing Competition 2023/202411:09Carrying the counterfactual into a World War II testChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:14:56Language access redirects research toward underused national sourcesQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:37:43Extreme quotations can distort wartime British-Polish relationsNotable Point
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:45:14RAF treatment of Polish critics also reflected institutional defensivenessNotable Point
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time4:18:10Neutral questions elicit better historical evidenceNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō7:21Why archive access limited the book's scopeNotable Point
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers0:02Making naval aviation history accessibleChapter
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes1:05:11Reading Bill Sparks's memoir with care over datesNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:46:00A North African inland sea offers one possible setting for AtlantisNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:32:33Equipment debates need battlefield context and force ratiosNotable Point
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 76:20Why popular history and scholarly method are not oppositesNotable Point
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 79:57Reading naval priorities from design and construction decisionsNotable Point
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response0:15Historical context, revision, and primary sourcesNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:23:32Historical method beyond credentialsChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:25:34Publishing bias and carrier historiographyNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency6:01Sinop and the danger of retroactive historyChapter
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency20:30The Crimean War and weaponized historical argumentChapter
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency23:59Silver, trade, and the Opium Wars comparisonNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 412:59Churchill's battlecruiser label had a budgetary useChapter
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 425:01How a historian keeps warship comparisons consistentNotable Point
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response1:27:19Political persuasion starts with listeningNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Four Random Books 30 - Courage2:50Animal welfare complicates admiration for Antarctic explorersNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Four Random Books 30 - Courage7:50Southby-Tailyour shows why oral historians sometimes stop questioningNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Four Random Books 30 - Courage44:14Dramatic chapter titles can frame solid Falklands testimonyNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response7:45Why World of Warships is not a naval-history simulationNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?8:31A large navy can pursue several doctrines at onceNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?20:21Postwar records reconstruct the Atlantic pictureNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?28:08Hindsight hides how extreme Britain's 1941 position wasNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?1:36:48Why Operation Berlin was both force and farceChapter
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response17:28How a plausible Dreadnought gun story became a mythNotable Point
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response10:27Why familiarity does not rescue the pre-dreadnought labelQ&A
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response19:55BC and AD as a test of retrospective labelsQ&A
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response22:23Why written records do not cleanly separate history from prehistoryQ&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?39:26Changing the spotlight at Narvik is not the same as rewriting the battleNotable Point
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:16:07Were attacks on HX convoys evenly distributed?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?3:27:53An early revisionist story linked Dreadnought to the Kiel CanalChapter
- HNLMS Schorpioen: KSS1 S6 Comment Response5:45Naval infrastructure as a national resource choiceChapter
- HMDS Danmark: KSS1 S2 Comment Response10:58Personal expertise versus invented institutional authorityQ&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back9:19A repeated Dove quotation points in the wrong directionNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:02:59Testing declinist claims against a longer historyQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:09:50Why counterfactual successors need a service historyNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:08:15Public-source discipline when studying modern weaponsNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...7:08Why unbuilt capital ships are revealingChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...53:03The uncertain names of the G3 and N3 classesNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:04:02Why Britain's post-G3 plans remain uncertainNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...2:00:39Unbuilt warships as a record of national ambitionChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:21:35How to keep a naval counterfactual boundedNotable Point
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series8:37Why a capital-ship article may omit HMS HoodQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:00:22Why one-country explanations fail historical causationQ&A
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...18:35Testing what victory in Norway does not changeNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)4:19Sampling annuals to trace naval changeChapter
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)6:09Choosing consistent years for a war-era sampleNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)11:02Why decade-scale comparisons reveal ship design changeNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)26:23Exercise names and archival cross-checkingNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)59:03Combining quantitative and qualitative samplingChapter
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:23:14The difficulty of recommending an East India Company ship historyQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:32:55Signals intelligence beyond the Enigma storyNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:52:58How a historian assesses a disappointing bookQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:24:44Why long-range counterfactuals accumulate uncertaintyQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres1:01:57Reading censorship in wartime naval photographsNotable Point
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics4:23:17Why some warship design studies are better documentedQ&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre33:18Räumboote: the German fast craft often misidentifiedChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:20:24Why horsepower figures need their test contextQ&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:30:49Was the Fairmile B built in India?Q&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre2:34:13Operations can reveal undocumented radar fitsNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 96:24Using naval history to reason about deterrenceNotable Point
- Memoirs as Historical Sources1:43How should memoirs be used as historical sources?Q&A
- Memoirs as Historical Sources6:27Decide what kind of evidence a memoir providesChapter
- Memoirs as Historical Sources8:11Test memory before treating detail as factNotable Point
- Memoirs as Historical Sources13:15Use general histories for the first cross-checkChapter
- Memoirs as Historical Sources16:26Check claims about ships beyond the author's commandNotable Point
- Memoirs as Historical Sources17:13Use layered citations to make arguments checkableNotable Point
- Memoirs as Historical Sources18:39Compare memoirs with private correspondenceChapter
- Memoirs as Historical Sources24:15Recognize the shift from reading to researchNotable Point
- Memoirs as Historical Sources27:04Use published naval records to go beyond memoirsChapter
- Memoirs as Historical Sources31:28Account for wartime secrecy in Cunningham's memoirNotable Point
- Memoirs as Historical Sources34:27Why Cunningham's recollections can be checked closelyNotable Point
- Memoirs as Historical Sources35:53Build a more accurate past for better future decisionsNotable Point
- Memoirs as Historical Sources38:17Treat relationships as part of corroborationNotable Point
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 36:46Research independence and reading history forwardNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?22:01Is the argument limited to naval battles?Q&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:24Reading ship-reference books criticallyChapter
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer37:10Why a fictional Spearfish delay cannot be timed mechanicallyQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer1:34:03Why proposed saint names for British capital ships are doubtfulChapter
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer1:46:47A bibliography can conceal a weak chain of evidenceChapter
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer1:51:53Separating Austro-Hungarian planning from partisan framingNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:48:37The 170-gun Duke of Kent proposal and uncertain attributionNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?56:55Lloyd George, private conduct, and uncertain evidenceNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?1:31:01Billy Hughes and a declared biographical biasNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:07:43Respectful disagreement in historical debateNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:09:58Testing a historical argument against its strongest objectionsNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:25:44Why Bismarck cost figures need cautionQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:56:19What good-faith historical research requiresNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:59:07How inaccessible sources complicate historical disagreementNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:03:26Treaty language and actual political relationshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:17:47Can an unpromising research project be recognised in advance?Q&A
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)1:39:04Which book covers the Navigation Acts period?Q&A
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:18:12Which sources connect naval policy with Stuart politics?Q&A
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:47:46Family records and hidden connections among naval captainsNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:50:20A wartime burial letter without a recoverable grave locationNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:58:37Do modern American power assumptions fit the thirteen colonies?Q&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy59:04The evidence behind an 18-inch HMS Agincourt reconstructionNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy2:09:13Reading professional defence arguments against budget rivalryQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy2:19:02Recovering global shipping history from private company recordsChapter
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:00:40Competing explanations for who drove the Nore mutinyNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology50:23Why historians study mistakes made in bloodNotable Point
- Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)0:59Why teaching history means learning it againNotable Point
- Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)2:56When a burial record conflicts with a family diaryNotable Point
- Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response26:53Historical conclusions should change with the evidenceNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response2:47Using public sources without exposing sensitive warship dataNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!47:16Why an impressive title does not make a quote representativeQ&A
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)27:06Lost personal records narrow WATU's historyNotable Point
- Albany Class: Comment Response9:33How shipyard vocabulary carries professional historyNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney30:55Why one government position paper does not prove adopted policyQ&A
- Ottoman Venetian War: Comment Response10:50Cleopatra and Ptolemaic family relationshipsNotable Point
- Slava Class: Comment Response12:52How peer review preserves evidence-backed disagreementNotable Point
- Kara Class: Comment Response3:41Why a warship needs strategic contextNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses53:22Midway and the method of responsible alternate historyNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon56:42Alternate history works by preserving constraintsNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland0:26Why the fleet comparison does not use GDPQ&A
- Building the Fleets for Jutland57:44Similar yard counts did not mean similar outputChapter
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett2:17:39How historians bridge gaps in evidenceNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett2:31:20Archive access set the limits of a destroyer historyNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett2:41:41Religious divisions shaped British political cultureNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power21:04Legal advocacy made historical arguments harder to dismissNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:26:27Reviewing books written by friends fairlyNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:59:46Cossack's searchlights and conflicting accounts of the Altmark affairNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)42:46Why an unattributed Rodney anecdote remains uncertainNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)2:35:31Were Mesolithic people unusually healthy?Q&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus29:40Keeping alternate history anchored to evidenceQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:31:07Why Mahan preserved contradictions between his essaysNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:40:55Questioning a golden age of the pressNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:50:36Reading Mahan as a theorist and naval educatorNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:03:38Reading and translating Castex's naval theoryChapter
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:36:35Disputes over evidence for historical artefactsQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:41:10History as a source of strategic questionsChapter
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:42:25An unread presentation copy and Mahan's influenceNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:02:11Why names vary in China Station sourcesNotable Point
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History1:47:13Why the scenario stops short of predicting the later warNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat28:37Why Hood's wreck still limits certaintyNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat35:09Using interwar Admiralty rules for naval wargamingNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat50:15How to read competing wartime propagandaNotable Point
- Navigation: From Coastal Tracking to Satelite Navigation8:24Source criticism complicates simple portraits of statesNotable Point
- Navigation: From Coastal Tracking to Satelite Navigation53:07Can a homing pigeon point the way home?Q&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:33What a historian would study with a TARDISQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword13:59Teaching history through primary sourcesQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword18:51Separating Egyptology debates from conspiracy claimsQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword46:54Comparing colonial rulers without excusing colonialismQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword2:09:27A layered reading route into the Song dynastyChapter
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:37:29Naval conspiracy claims and a proposed Mary Celeste explanationQ&A
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!23:14Prestigious capital ships expose the Royal Navy’s commitment to steamNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas49:47When historical battleship designs meet game AINotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:11:49HMS Furious exposes the game's 18-inch-gun gapNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:17:42Why not use mods for the design tests?Q&A
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:22:20Checking the claim that Wellington visited CanadaNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:37:28Did U-152's crew buy newspapers in Rhode Island?Q&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...0:27Criticizing empire in its historical contextNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...19:25Historical prices need a declared comparison methodQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...2:00:05Choose a research topic you can live withQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...2:48:39Clausewitz died before revising all of On WarQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak36:43Siege customs, war-crime language, and presentismNotable Point
- Ship Design3:05Rope accounts and missing practical knowledgeNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?3:04:53Counterfactuals require timelines, not top trumpsNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build3:42:08Why tax statistics need wider historical readingNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build4:21:28Popular history as a gateway to deeper studyNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century48:17Rating revisions and tons burthenNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:23:51Soviet battleships and NATO's capital-ship reactionQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:32:07Postwar air power and nonlinear technological changeNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6510:00Military defeat does not require total conquestQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6521:11Civil War command ranks reward careful reconstructionNotable Point
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:02:07Recent scholarship can map a history paper's sourcesQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain55:51International-relations models cannot remove cultural contextNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain1:15:39Caesar's final-reserve charges joined command practice to political imageNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain4:07:06Alternate history becomes fiction when evidence can no longer constrain itQ&A
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...21:05Why modern missile history stays within public sourcesNotable Point
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...45:28Why recent warship history demands source cautionNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:58:51Choosing wargames to support historical researchQ&A
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)42:23Naval history as continuing source workNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books0:43Testing the Butler-Johnson Cuban bus storyQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books11:24A fabricated First World War thesis as a source warningQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books14:37Why pyramids recur across ancient societiesNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books15:32Did Togo claim to be Nelson reincarnated?Q&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:03:46Why archaeology works best beside written sourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:10:32Atlantis as a composite flood traditionQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:27:45Using document collections before visiting the archivesNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:57:22Furious's 18-inch guns and competing Agincourt hypothesesNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books4:18:07A paper quadruple turret does not establish a working heavy mountQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road1:06:54Evidence for a Japanese 20-inch gun test remains contradictoryQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road2:16:33The labels Great War, World War One, and Allies belong to different contextsQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road2:31:28Missing records can be as revealing as surviving primary sourcesQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:19:19A strong book recommendation does not require agreement with every argumentNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:21:35Narrow historical fields reveal parts of a larger human systemNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 231:24Testing Roosevelt's claimed naval ultimatumNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:13:43Why historians should resist claims that history or knowledge has endedNotable Point
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:09:37Why USS Thresher's loss remains uncertainQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:36:50The human scale of the Korean WarNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History1:21:03A closing test for victory, agency, and blameNotable Point
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video1:02:05Why historical interpretations keep changingNotable Point
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More3:06:43Kiev loss estimates require cautionQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More3:11:57Kiev casualty totals depend on which campaign is countedNotable Point
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More3:13:06Soviet tank totals depend on reporting and repair categoriesQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More3:16:18Assumptions about readers shape a historian's choice of examplesNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:38:28Correcting myths about Japanese fire controlNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)24:28Warships make sense only in their wider historical settingNotable Point
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France6:01Using counterfactuals to test historical consequencesNotable Point
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?12:38How the French-fleet counterfactual is boundedChapter
- Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 1119:46Rickover's Civil War sea-power claim needs a caveatNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:35:52Test a source against a subject you knowNotable Point
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments1:04:31The two-book naval hindsight exerciseNotable Point
- Algerie (1932): Marine National0:06Why Algérie's importance depends on the historical questionNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times33:08Why historical conclusions remain open to revisionNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times34:14Reading strategy through forensic engineeringChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times47:51Roman strategy reconstructed from forts and roadsChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:11:06Why engineering degrees teach forensic reconstructionQ&A
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19390:20How to judge a navy without mythmakingChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19395:27Incremental reform versus sweeping changeNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19396:22Why famous weapons distort fleet historyNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19392:21How to judge Allied naval choices in January 1939Chapter
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books1:52Why historical claims need evidenceQ&A
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books58:39The unresolved evidence for the N3's 18-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books1:59:54The Walls of Justinian and the sixth-century Roman armyChapter
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books2:03:54Procopius and incomplete battle evidenceNotable Point
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books2:07:12Reading the demon imagery in Procopius's Secret HistoryQ&A
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:22:19Historians are trained to test biased sourcesNotable Point
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack29:40Academic and reenactor views of Roman weaponsNotable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)1:14:47How naval historians build and debate interpretationsNotable Point
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions16:09Why wargames show tendencies rather than predict eventsQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:02:42How to spot a history book padded for lengthQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:50:16The uncertain last active protected or armoured cruiserQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?58:11A cruiser definition beyond national labelsQ&A
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))7:47Recall records show which skills the Navy neededNotable Point
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels40:11Testing the Roman King Arthur theoryChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels1:06:37Why modern sparring cannot reproduce historical combatChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:04:57Why the loss of Leonardo da Vinci needs archival checkingQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:09:31How repeated reading becomes project-specific research notesQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:15:25Why counting Britain's wartime torpedo types is difficultQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:32:53Why Anglo-American war plans did not make war likelyQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:38:40Holding major events constant in the London Treaty scenarioNotable Point
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:40:41A disciplined counterfactual method for treaties and shipsChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)0:00Using an equitable treaty counterfactual to test historyChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)28:28Limiting hindsight in counterfactual treaty designNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)56:01Why the alternate treaty keeps the eight-inch cruiser limitNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)1:01:12How to build a historically bounded treaty counterfactualNotable Point
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:21:04Why a wonder weapon remains a theoryNotable Point
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:33:32How restricted evidence can guide publishable researchQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:14:13Raw sinking totals need a target-richness denominatorNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)2:58:21Why long-running fictional worlds need historiansNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:51:25Who counts as a historian?Notable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:57:39Polybius, Livy, and the limits of credential gatekeepingNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature35:13A good historian follows evidence and resists gatekeepingQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...43:17Why Admiral-class histories should not begin with Hood's lossQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:20:26How to read wartime propaganda criticallyQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:38:57Why balanced war histories take longer than twenty yearsQ&A
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol25:53Polybius and the politics of victory narrativesNotable Point
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol51:21Polybius on constitution, evidence, and fortuneNotable Point
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol1:13:19Reconstructing Ecnomus from fragmentary evidenceNotable Point
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)30:16Salvage and the limits of a British scuttling theoryNotable Point
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...1:19:33The years behind a naval history monographQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...1:45:01A practical method for naval archive researchQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:35:23How to use biased naval memoirs as evidenceQ&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...52:11Can Malta's possible female siege commander be identified?Q&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...52:54Could a mercenary explain Malta's unnamed commander?Q&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...54:03Saints and the memory of Malta's first siegeNotable Point
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...57:13Could Malta's unnamed defender have been excommunicated?Q&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:36:21Strategic location, and the population invaders forgotNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)27:41Why the simulated duel is not a historical verdictNotable Point
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)26:38What an AI-run battle can and cannot testNotable Point
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)52:30Survivability differences remain a modelling caveatNotable Point
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events2:32:12Teaching the Civil War and avoiding assessment biasQ&A
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events2:36:32Why Bruce Catton still works as an introductionNotable Point
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events2:38:02Designing a history course beyond one research interestNotable Point
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events2:57:18Why Civil War casualty estimates can riseQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet2:59:31How to handle unseen counterevidenceNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:26:44Why games and Top Trumps distort warship comparisonsNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion37:27Treaty-induced neglect and wartime rearmamentChapter
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion41:41Postwar shock and the treaty-timing dilemmaNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)0:21Why Argentina's wartime politics resist simple hindsightNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:01:13When gun counts become comparableNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:09:49How to avoid hindsight in naval historyQ&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:20:35Why compare official treaty tonnages?Q&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:09:27The hindsight test for command responsibilityNotable Point
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)51:36Why counterfactual history clarifies real decisionsNotable Point
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)36:44What class naming suggests about distributed shipyardsNotable Point
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)43:39Lance's Hope and an unconfirmed loss reportNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)16:17How certain is the traditional date of the battle?Notable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)30:05Reconstructing Carthage through Roman-era sourcesNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)1:21:32What could Ostia build during the First Punic War?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:41:18When should archaeologists excavate a buried library?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:54:14Were Greco-Roman societies ahead of Renaissance Europe?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:57:46Eurocentric assumptions behind historical period labelsNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion42:59Separating simulation rules from historical conclusionsNotable Point
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:26:31Why historical method matters beyond memorizing eventsNotable Point
- An Introduction to US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment (Long Patrol)21:54Reconstructing an unofficial presence missionNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)28:22Henry VII's cash reserves and power on paperNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)53:47Class history reveals a navy's fleet conceptsNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion13:24Why published speeds for HMS Tiger disagreeNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion39:46Ask why a navy built that shipNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion44:21Rangefinder results vary across simulated duelsNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion56:55Modern fleet scarcity can distort battlecruiser historyNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books25:45The historian's trap of treating outcomes as inevitableQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:13:06A fair method for comparing British and American shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...28:41Using archive exchanges for naval researchQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:21:02Revisionism should add evidence, not impose present standardsQ&A
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)30:55Reading design evidence against surviving paperworkNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)26:43Capital-ship design records a navy's theories and decisionsNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)28:20Historical possibility begins with an option decision-makers actually hadChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)29:04Southampton's continuity as a merchant portChapter
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:15:51Why Commonwealth Tribal history required archival visitsNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:20:30Finding each student's way into historyQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"3:25:28How to build deeper historical knowledge without formal coursesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)4:21:44What peer review should test in historical scholarshipQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:04:54How dogmatic online groups damage historical debateQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:34:43What a master's degree adds to historical researchQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered4:15:43Why mass media repeats familiar crises and specialist outlets matterQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered4:29:12When academic language becomes a barrierQ&A
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises1:29:49Testing Spengler's deterministic historyNotable Point
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises2:33:54Testing political and media narrativesNotable Point
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises2:40:24Questioning the established narrative of MoroccoNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)6:26Why the mystery turret photograph cannot yet be shownQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)22:07A possible 1907 constructors-course triple-turret leadNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)22:03How the mystery turret could be traced in the archivesNotable Point
- So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)0:33Define what the research must explainChapter
- So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)1:51Choose evidence for a story, fact, question, or theoryNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:25:52Testing Hood theories against the battle timelineNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII3:09:40Why the Operation C answer became more nuancedQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:44:58Japan, not America, initiated the Pacific WarQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)3:08:57Global, world, and total war are different categoriesNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)3:37:50Read history forward from contemporary choicesChapter
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:15:55The evidence against a secret mission for GloriousQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books36:44Cultural morality and recurring human taboosQ&A
- The Operation: Taranto Long Patrol p40:22Reading Taranto from strategy to cockpitNotable Point
- The Beginnings of Naval Aerial Strike: p1 Taranto Long Patrol19:55Why battleships remained credible in interwar planningNotable Point
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:04:25Bias is perspective, not automatically deceitQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:09:54Japanese American internment and changing terminologyQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat2:20:26Book bans can strengthen the ideas they targetNotable Point
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat2:40:36Historical frameworks should open discussionNotable Point
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat2:43:46Good historical translation preserves meaning, not only wordsQ&A
- Operation Judgment: HMS Eagle Variance (the 10mins of lost sound from Operation MB8! - Long Patrol)4:12Why Operation MB8's ship lists disagreeNotable Point
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat1:09:18Why democratic peace theory needs historical contextNotable Point
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:00:01Journalism and history as forms of public accountabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:18:38Historical expertise does not require a doctorateNotable Point
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:58:32How to use a memoir written through another authorQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat3:16:22Start postwar economic history with the raw statisticsQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat3:28:06Mary Celeste and the limits of a plausible explanationQ&A
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol27:00Counterfactual history as a way to test decisionsNotable Point
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol29:17Keeping counterfactual butterfly effects manageableNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)2:10:29Why reassessing British submarines can look like overcompensationQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:08:44Phoebe, family tradition, and historical evidenceQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:56:24Counting babies born during naval battlesQ&A
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)18:14Jenkins's ear and the wider warNotable Point
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)38:47The weather gauge at the battle openingChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)2:50:25How to read a partisan or unreliable historianQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:40:10How funding cycles shape historical researchNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)58:01Why Churchill was the practical 1940 choiceNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:22:27Alan Brooke's memoir claims need source criticismQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai14:13Tracing a disputed strategic exchangeNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?16:37Historical judgement beneath simple good-and-evil labelsNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:17:00A primary source can fit a narrative too neatlyNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 19400:20A Norway campaign history built from Royal Navy recordsChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 194017:22Working with reproduced records between archive visitsChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 194018:36Using published archives to plan deeper researchChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris8:27Canaris biographies and the limits of a repeated claimNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:42:14Testing claims about Soviet funding of civil rightsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)2:54:39Why public history requires visible uncertaintyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)4:13:08Why the Sino-Vietnamese War resists a simple verdictNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out16:10The carrier replaced the battleship as the capital shipChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (24): The Wars of Justinian I3:43Why the sixth-century Roman army resists simple labelsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (24): The Wars of Justinian I16:45Why the book's complexity is part of its valueNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (22): Roman Conquests - Britain1:21How friendship factors into the reviewNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (22): Roman Conquests - Britain11:21Why command narratives need political contextNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (22): Roman Conquests - Britain12:12One expedition could solve several imperial problemsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (22): Roman Conquests - Britain17:29History does not move in a straight lineNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (22): Roman Conquests - Britain18:32Test historical and political claims beyond the catchphraseNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:16:55Anti-colonial choices between violent empiresNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:48:07Evidence and respect in historical debateNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books1:23:02How uncertain birth dates affect Edward I's family chronologyNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books1:26:02Why an earlier birth date for Catherine seems more likelyQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books1:40:34Reconstructing HMCS Prince Robert in miniatureNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books2:02:55The uncertain composition of Lucullus's armyNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:30:32Following British Cold War submarine designNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books4:54:51Why Ashmore and Brind describe Tsingtao differentlyQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW218:26Was the Chitose class designed for carrier conversion?Q&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:49:21Historical analysis works through choices inside their constraintsNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:00:59Napoleon's Haiti policy and the limits of episode scopeNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions12:15Sources on R-class speed and wetnessQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions30:09Reading history with a question in mindNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions1:10:27How certain is Churchill's later verdict on the R class?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships52:54Competing claims about aviation's first flightNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships58:28Provocative quotations as research exercisesNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships3:18:23How should readers approach Samuel Eliot Morison?Q&A
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol10:26Why 1806 belongs to a much longer European warNotable Point
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:42:15How should historians judge claims in national archives?Q&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:21:17Why the World Wars crowd ironclads out of general historiesNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:50:38Churchill's drinking reputation and a famous retortQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:57:12Judging historical figures in contextNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword1:30:25Arthurian Britain as a problem of evidence and migrationChapter
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:14:13Why major histories often arrive decades after an eventQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19158:32Testing the Agincourt story with fragmentary evidenceNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:07:47How historians reason when the archive is incompleteNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:01:26Why Jutland hit-rate totals need battle-phase contextNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:46:28Why practical experience belongs in naval historyNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War3:24:56How to assess Prince Philip's wartime naval serviceNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History2:06Read beyond a catchy naval-history titleNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History4:15Why infrastructure and merchant shipping belong in war historyNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History6:41Test a history book where its argument must still carry weightNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History28:29Civil wars grow from structures older than their opening battlesChapter
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History33:26The journey of supplies belongs in war historyNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History35:30Historical depth lies beneath covers and bite-sized eventsNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval44:49Livestock comparisons depend on the geographical headingNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval51:10How can statistics describe Italy or Germany before unification?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval54:40Statistics can lead technical readers into historyNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval1:24:43The Alexiad combines insider knowledge with loyalty to Alexios INotable Point
- Prince Philips Navy2:00:50How historians reconcile aircraft loss claimsQ&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...4:07:22Reevaluation is useful; cherry-picked history is notQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1315:40Bacon challenges how official naval history was writtenNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191555:26Studying battle to understand failure and deterrenceNotable Point
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:31:03Building a foundation in wartime shipbuildingNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19167:51The archival question behind Britain's interwar black budgetNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191630:12Why two Dutch escorts remain unidentifiedNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191658:27Why Camperdown is outside this Dogger Bank setQ&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations52:00Did an Icelander correct a British soldier's rifle handling?Q&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations56:06Would an embarrassing incident disappear from military records?Q&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:25:09Challenging Eurocentric economic historyChapter
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:28:49What Silk Road trade implies about economic institutionsNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:41:16Revising a narrative by studying neglected evidenceQ&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:01:22Reading history before the outcome is knownNotable Point
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 3222:41How historians handle gaps in naval aviation recordsChapter
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 32230:48Mislabeled archives may hide the missing fighterNotable Point
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 32243:54Why paper aircraft disappear from popular historyNotable Point
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 1/3 Sea Lion 1-Sea Lion 22:31Reading Supermarine history through evidence and inferenceNotable Point
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 1/3 Sea Lion 1-Sea Lion 224:44Use Wikipedia as a map to citable sourcesNotable Point
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes1:44:01Why North Sea evidence could distort conclusions about aft fireNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 3 of 3 - Some Questions Answered17:10Robust debate improves naval choicesNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 2 of 3 - A New Reality...0:32Historical study as preparation for strategic leadershipNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream4:01Henry Hendrix and the argument about naval presenceNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered48:58Why primary sources still require interpretationQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 7: Conclusion25:12From naval-history hobbyist to professional historianNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships28:39Correcting Astraea's machinery from turbine to triple expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:52:09The uncertain survival of Henderson's diaryNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History2:48:24Teaching political arguments without prescribing a conclusionNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:58:26Audiobooks and academic referencingQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:53:20How synthesized references should be disclosedQ&A
- Part 2 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"0:39What 'interesting' means in a history of the Korean WarNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...4:39A balanced history of KurskNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 5 of 5: What ifs, Ships & Patreon Votes17:27Using counterfactuals to identify decisive variablesNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark2:36:38What Billy Mitchell's bombing tests could not proveNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:37:28Why earlier escort carriers would not automatically end the warNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 3 of 5/Articles 11-130:32Why naval treaty clauses need close readingNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson1:39The contested letter used to defend the slave tradeNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson4:15How a simple Nelson narrative hid inconvenient evidenceNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy2:24:56Archives as a check on inherited narrativesNotable Point
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)14:48How specifications and unit histories are used togetherNotable Point
- Four Random Books 3: Naval Aviation in a Swordfish12:26How Naval Wings checks memory against official recordsNotable Point
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?1:10:03The Leanders as a middle tier between Arethusas and TownsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A50:56A human-factors caveat on shipbuilding criticismQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:23:08A caveat on Fighters over the FleetQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:31:37Two books for the big picture of World War II at seaQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:34:28When British understatement became a coalition riskNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:45:26Use Wikipedia to find sources, not as the sourceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:50:34How to use Breyer's battleship referenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:51:01Judging military-history videos by their contentQ&A
- An Introduction to Victorian Naval Diplomacy0:28Sources for studying Victorian naval diplomacyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A7:02Reading military history beyond a neat storyChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A50:34Stephen Ambrose as a starting point, not the last wordNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:17:36Does Wild Blue have historical problems as well?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:44:28Why African history cannot be learned in isolated piecesNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:21:02How to weigh letters, memoirs, and official recordsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:30:07The missing Japanese record of Singtao in 1939Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:37:27How official secrecy can delay historical researchQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 44:15Paper wealth versus usable powerNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 427:25History as accountability and disciplined inferenceNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 441:24Counterfactual history as branching contingencyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:46:54A broader alternative to Prisoners of GeographyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:00:47The limits of a single theory for why nations failQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:04:13Why engineers study the history behind formulasNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:15:29Continuing historical education for serving officersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:32:38Reading state behaviour through national interestsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...34:00Research and uncertainty in the scenarioNotable Point
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean2:38Reading official submarine figures criticallyNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 1 of 26:03Why the Armada needs a more nuanced explanationChapter
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 1 of 231:52Why headline gun totals misrepresent the Armada balanceNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 216:43How to handle conflicting submarine statisticsNotable Point
- An Extended Introduction to "Naval Diplomacy"39:47The hard-to-measure effects of naval diplomacyNotable Point
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians21:31Testing Gorshkov's merchant-loss arithmeticNotable Point
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians40:39Disappearing sources and recent Russian naval historyNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A54:03Judge naval history by its evidenceNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:23:17Edward Ashmore’s memoir and checking recollectionChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:34:33How poll wording can manufacture agreementNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:11:51Historical context without moral absolutionNotable Point
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 2: The Counter-Factual; My Plan0:03Rules for rebuilding the Far East commandChapter
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 2: The Counter-Factual; My Plan30:41Treat the plan as an untested counterfactualNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:05:53Boudicca and judging people in their own timeQ&A
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops10:25The Bittern class as a multi-role sloopNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops27:42PQ 18 measures success by merchant arrivalsChapter
- An Introduction to "D" Class Cruisers: Part 3 A correction0:04Correcting a D-class length errorChapter
- An Introduction to "D" Class Cruisers: Part 3 A correction1:49Checking feet-to-metre conversionsNotable Point
- An Introduction to "D" Class Cruisers: Part 3 A correction6:46Why corrections belong in teachingNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 48:21Ōtori-class torpedo boats blur the destroyer boundaryNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 422:57Mass-built escorts resist tidy class statisticsNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 20:51Researching naval lives when the archives are out of reachNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 213:55Using Wikipedia as a gateway to naval-history sourcesNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 222:35Norman Friedman's prolific naval-history scholarshipChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 124:10Caspar John's book as a window into Reginald HendersonNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 125:39Andrew Lambert's route into naval historyChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 130:25Stephen Roskill's strongest sea-power historiesChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A5:18How to use Norman Friedman's research without inheriting every conclusionNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A25:05Far-Flung Lines for imperial defence and wider strategyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A43:44Why an incomplete history book can spark better researchNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:07:01A Kaneohe Bay history stronger than its coverNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:56:24Chinese military thought extends far beyond Sun TzuNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:54:57Why the recorded loss of I-52 feels hauntingNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A21:33Reconstructing naval decisions beyond the paper trailNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history4:35How research librarians recover obscure naval sourcesNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:36:09Why historians and engineers need each otherQ&A
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)30:18Even an expert designer could misidentify a landing shipNotable Point
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video51:03Reading intent from ships rather than written ordersNotable Point
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video29:59The archive behind the Asama Maru incidentNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video25:13Clear questions guide historical writingNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video0:19Reconciling the battle's competing clocksNotable Point
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video0:04Why Harwood's preparation belongs in the River Plate storyChapter