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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:27:41Comparing wartime equipment without blanket rankingsNotable Point
- William Adams - the English Samurai from the 17th Century... whose memorial I stumbled into!56:35Japanese judgment and the accusations against AdamsChapter
- William Adams - the English Samurai from the 17th Century... whose memorial I stumbled into!1:47:47What 'sailor' and 'teacher' obscure about AdamsNotable Point
- William Adams - the English Samurai from the 17th Century... whose memorial I stumbled into!1:49:52Reading Adams's letters against later mythologyNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:20Gentlemanly capitalism, imperialism and social connectionsNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:27:03Historical films, compressed campaigns and coalition warfareNotable Point
- Admiral Henry Trollope: A Great Carronade Career with Sad End3:11Researching Trollope through French-language sourcesNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:21:06Reading Churchill's own books criticallyQ&A
- 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...2:46:21Why the same war dominates one curriculum and barely enters anotherNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:12Why a counterfactual needs limits on how far it projectsNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:04Omar Bradley's reputation and coalition-command frictionNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:54Judging wartime commanders without modern intelligenceNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:38Why claims of unprecedented technology can obscure historical lessonsQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:37How available sources shape the teaching of naval historyQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:57How Falklands reporting confused a flag captain with the commanderNotable Point
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:33Choosing a study edition of Britain's Economic Blockade of GermanyQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:28Balanced introductions to the British EmpireQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:08:56Britain benefited from the story that it hated submarinesQ&A
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?9:45Prewar escort orders complicate the emergency-building rationaleNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:20Testing claims that Harold's army sailed south in 1066Notable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?57:43The Italian campaign in American war historiesNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:18:06How postwar memoirs reshaped memory of the construction pauseQ&A
- 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
- Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?1:20:55Using Geirr Haarr's work with Norwegian-language sourcesNotable Point
- Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?1:23:06Norway's postwar defence policy and the lessons of 1940Chapter
- Historian What's the difference between Academic & non-Academic Historians?0:00What makes someone a historian?Q&A
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!1:10:43Winning a war does not validate every ship purchaseNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:11:19Did officers recognise their own patronage lineage?Q&A
- Why Historians sometimes seem to 'rewrite' History?0:00Why historical understanding changesQ&A
- Why Historians sometimes seem to 'rewrite' History?0:26Putting Enigma back into the Allied war effortQ&A
- Why Historians sometimes seem to 'rewrite' History?1:09Why popular history favors simple storiesNotable Point
- Why Historians sometimes seem to 'rewrite' History?1:37Did wider human expression cause Rome's fall?Q&A
- Why Historians sometimes seem to 'rewrite' History?2:16Imperial cost cutting and military reliabilityChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII17:19Archive access shaped the Tribal destroyer bookNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...3:13:38The limits of an aphorism about the Holy Roman EmpireNotable Point
- 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: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle1:22:38How to test racial assumptions as an explanation for MalayaNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:38:12Buttercup and shared ownership of anti-U-boat tacticsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust8:10:13Finding a counterpart to Sunburst for Japanese Army aviationQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust3:25:31Retired admirals and the source of anti-carrier quotationsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:05:05The uncertain evidence for a British 20-inch/54 gunNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:07:02Roskill's evidentiary standard for official naval historyNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida4:18:56Why Haig's reputation resists a simple rehabilitationQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II8:24:21Female Chinese pirates and portrayals of Viking womenNotable Point
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy44:07Which parts of The Sea Power of the State sound like Gorshkov?Notable Point
- What happens if Japan persues Synthetic Fuels from 1930 onwards?2:28Reading Japan's strategic-bombing survey criticallyNotable Point
- Why Naval Historians... Why Human experience is about recognising the value of a moment...0:00Recognising a last visit as historyNotable Point
- Why Naval Historians... Why Human experience is about recognising the value of a moment...1:43Small spaces as evidence of lived historyNotable Point
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?17:08Evidence and lived experience refine historical analysisNotable Point
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...0:00Learning from Nelson without hero worshipChapter
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:28:22Etajima presents naval memory from Japan's own perspectiveNotable Point
- Historians: Knowledge vs Wisdom debate0:00Knowledge and wisdom in historical studyQ&A
- Why do Historians never seem to run out of projects?0:00Why historical research keeps producing new projectsQ&A
- Why do Historians never seem to run out of projects?1:21Why historians keep longer lists of questions than answersNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:14Caution over linking the Great Kanto earthquake to militarismQ&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:37:30Why an archived warship design may never have been intended for constructionNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:24:36Reading history through the choices available at the timeNotable Point
- Why Historians are sometimes bad at Maths2:01Why historians divide a continuous past into periodsNotable Point
- The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver8:32Testing a revisionist New Model Army claimNotable Point
- Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold0:00Why the Protectorate's naval war is easily forgottenNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:24:39How later radar tactics can obscure the original purposeNotable Point
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...49:36Source base for reconstructing carrier air groupsNotable Point
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...53:39The 1942 rearmament horizon and Churchill's carrier pauseNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:02:04How the Royal Canadian Navy became a top-three fleetQ&A
- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)57:42Why medieval naval history has a thinner recordNotable Point
- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)1:27:13The chronicles behind the Battle of WinchelseaNotable Point
- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)2:13:01Which medieval naval battles deserve more attention?Q&A
- 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 Navy1:17:37How an official narrative sets the terms of debateNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy1:26:26Changes in voice suggest collaborative authorshipNotable 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
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:41:49What private naval papers can and cannot establishNotable Point
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:57Reading a disputed wartime account as a contemporary viewpointQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:30:30Salamis, Persian influence, and inherited Greek perspectivesQ&A
- Why do Historians like to Name things?0:00Why historians use named eras instead of dates aloneQ&A
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?0:32Why postwar blame can distort Plan ZNotable Point
- George of Antioch: The Scilian Admiral of Admirals who out foxed the Byzantines...20:11Conflicting dates and a medieval research trailNotable Point
- Why Historians are careful with Personal Accounts of events... it's Perspective! #history0:00Personal accounts as remembered perspectivesChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...21:51Reading participants' accounts against one anotherNotable Point
- 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
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!1:00:58An accessible Imjin War overview still needs cautionNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...6:09How historians can disagree over the same documentsNotable Point
- 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
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...34:17How to read Fuchida's Pearl Harbor accountNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty15:23How the verdict on the naval treaties changedNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty42:03Why declarations that major war has ended keep recurringNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty1:27:14Distinguishing Washington from the later London restrictionsNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty3:04:35Panzerschiffe and Weimar Germany's part in rearmamentNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...24:17War films, remakes, and historical memoryQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...28:56Omar Bradley's influence on PattonNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:41Who the panel would advise in Warhammer 40,000Q&A
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live11:55How many wars did England and Spain fight?Q&A
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live12:26Jenkins's ear: a documented injury and a doubtful sceneNotable Point
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live2:12:23Lezo's reported reply about a fleet fit for coalNotable Point
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live2:14:10Cartagena reshapes the wider European warChapter
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:56British tanks and narrow accounts of World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:29An unfamiliar decision can still have a rationaleQ&A
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him24:46Distributed command and coalition memoryNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him37:26Why historical memory favors Drake over EffinghamNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him1:13:09Farragut in American popular memoryNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience3:49:09What Farragut may actually have shoutedNotable 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
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:14:38Maritime mysteries hidden by incomplete recordsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:24:27Why medieval naval commanders are hard to identifyQ&A
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates22:22How archival limits shape Commonwealth naval historyNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview9:47Why early submarine and aircraft judgments need period contextNotable Point
- The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality29:37The Tau analogy and national claims to virtueNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...24:58Why historical interpretations should change with the evidenceNotable Point
- The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians45:57Why the Roman navy disappeared from popular historyQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:43:17How much survives of Axis plans beyond World War IIQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:06:50Germany, Nazi Germany, and the continuity of military programsQ&A
- Only a Sea Fury: Peaking Obsolescence or Forgotten Innovation? Key Aircraft Series 3 Aircraft 115:50Forgotten innovation and the trap of technological hindsightNotable Point
- Chattanooga Campaign of 186332:19The word 'hooker' predates General Hooker's fameNotable Point
- Chattanooga Campaign of 186343:02Hooker's reputation demonstrates the limits of newspaper gossipNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!19:17Early theorists shape the language of later doctrineNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!22:53Writing naval history without assuming the reader's backgroundNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!24:39Shipbuilding knowledge that manuals do not preserveNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!27:17Helgoland as a German political prizeChapter
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons0:00The recurring problem behind Soviet naval aviationChapter
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons24:48Why naval aviation has competing foundation datesNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...30:47Informal names and archival searchesNotable Point
- Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carriers: Smoking the Mazut1:09:11The Soviet Union's difficult carrier-aviation learning curveNotable Point
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:05:11Comparing the British Empire, Nazism, and imperial violenceQ&A
- 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
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:01:23Explaining HMS Beagle in Mandatory PalestineQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:29:25Why Britain still did not mass-produce light carriersQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:38:50Churchill's prewar influence was smaller than hindsight suggestsNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 21:14:28The solitary and collaborative sides of historical researchNotable Point
- Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign49:04Rory Stewart's grand-strategy credentialsNotable Point
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- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:45:00How to build a credible naval counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:50:20Documentary proof and historical inferenceQ&A
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 59:18Public history, evidence, and interpretationNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more22:30Italian sources and reassessing the Mediterranean warNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered1:38:34Why Hood's loss is not the start date of imperial declineQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:45:15Yonai in Japanese memory and Western historiographyNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:17:43American neutrality without the main intervention triggersQ&A
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- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:43:01Why war plans do not prove an Anglo-American war was likelyQ&A
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...0:34How naval reputations are builtChapter
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...7:08Reassessing Prince Louis of BattenbergChapter
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...2:15:26Battenberg's forgotten War Staff legacyChapter
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:30:12Churchill's histories also reveal Churchill's politicsNotable Point
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:08:23How to judge wrongful punishment in a navyQ&A
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier21:38Three warning signs in historical argumentNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:31Royal birth and the obstacles to Battenberg's promotionNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?19:04Why Battenberg recorded agreements after arguing in privateNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?3:02:37Why a successful Battenberg might still be underratedNotable Point
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- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.10:37Who can afford to write history?Notable Point
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- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:22:30Using acknowledged bias as historical evidenceQ&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 time2:49:38MacArthur's later career drove a harsher public reassessmentQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:52:54Napoleonic defeat does not explain France's later military problems by itselfNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:54:21How Victorian assumptions misread armed womenNotable Point
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- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:49:23Starting a naval-history research projectQ&A
- '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
- 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
- If not Pearl Harbour?2:14:03When historical films put story before historyNotable Point
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response2:58Explaining Soviet logic without endorsing itNotable Point
- 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?24:46How missing Admiralty records should shape historical claimsChapter
- 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?2:52:24Why Operation Berlin was both a tour de force and a farceChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:56:36Can both sides lose the same naval campaign?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?3:27:53An early revisionist story linked Dreadnought to the Kiel CanalChapter
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:56:15Why historians must trace papers across many archivesNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:40:21The gap in broad Indian Ocean naval historiesQ&A
- 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 Series3:08:21How postwar needs magnified German industrial mythsNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre3:04:15Why British Empire alternate histories can feel staticQ&A
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 41:01:46Judging naval decisions without hindsightNotable Point
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!47:08Judging commanders without hindsightQ&A
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 36:46Research independence and reading history forwardNotable Point
- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI9:20Why one mistake does not settle a leader's reputationNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?50:44Why visible records can understate interwar cryptanalysisNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 510:49Why the winning design remains uncertainNotable 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 Mixture3:15:39Why the English fleet remained inactive in 1688Chapter
- 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
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 212:25How wartime experience rewrites doctrinal memoryNotable Point
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail3:48The fall of France as a warning about cultural memoryNotable Point
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail7:19How capital-ship memory obscures Operation ClaymoreNotable Point
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail17:04The British Empire as historical accidentNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:20:10How cultural memory turns history into mythsNotable Point
- Theodore Roosevelt: Theory in Action - A Naval Theorist who became President!5:39Judging Roosevelt without presentismNotable 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
- HMS Warrior(1860): Comment Response8:54What BCE and CE reveal about historical periodizationNotable Point
- Bruships 113: Jutland1:43:40How the 'luxury fleet' label can pre-judge the evidenceNotable Point
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...28:18An uncertain account of Native American defenders of CanadaNotable Point
- Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 202322:40Why Roman accounts of their enemies need scrutinyNotable Point
- Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 20232:30:27Nero's fiddle as an enduring historical mythNotable Point
- Battle of Hakodate, The Boshin War & the Origin Story of Tōgō Heihachirō31:00Source claims and the myth of a gentle Boshin WarNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation0:21Naval aviation beyond the popular storyChapter
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 202355:02Why warmongering states claim to be peacefulQ&A
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20232:49:38Could real generals be as incompetent as the game AI?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)52:18Why Britain's 1980 strength needs more than a decline narrativeNotable Point
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)2:53:49Shuttle diplomacy can become a way to buy timeNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:53:06Why "pre-dreadnought" can misleadNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)3:33:36Were Wellington's public remarks polished for the record?Notable Point
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 70:20Three ways a warship can be historically keyChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7639:28Why battleship investment did not exclude aviationNotable Point
- Navigation: From Coastal Tracking to Satelite Navigation8:24Source criticism complicates simple portraits of statesNotable Point
- Navigation: From Coastal Tracking to Satelite Navigation14:34Naval history resists hard period boundariesNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:08:19Reading Churchill and Sea Power criticallyChapter
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:11:43Three starting points for World War II naval strategyChapter
- Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...1:47Reading Yamen across changing Chinese name systemsNotable Point
- Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...5:46Reassessing older narrative histories of ChinaNotable Point
- Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay1:54Naval history as part of a connected systemNotable Point
- Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay5:38Grand strategy before the nameNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!13:26The scale of steam-rate adoption across the major naviesChapter
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:22:20Checking the claim that Wellington visited CanadaNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)46:54Why naval warfare needs wider historyQ&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)50:38Why naval history crosses academic boundariesQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:38:45Why Cunningham's memoir may feel unusually expansiveQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History31:44Political image versus historical interpretationNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect1:59:44Churchill's attempt to blame CradockNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19919:40Why Soviet naval research can reach books years lateNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-199118:43The same naval evidence can support competing interpretationsNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19912:12:30Kuznetsov's postwar reversals and critical memoirsChapter
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat59:28How far Fisher foresaw battleship obsolescenceQ&A
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars24:02Explorers usually discovered routes, not empty landsNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:51:35A philosophically minded introduction to strategyQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:03:46Why archaeology works best beside written sourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:19:19A strong book recommendation does not require agreement with every argumentNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 231:24Testing Roosevelt's claimed naval ultimatumNotable Point
- Battle of Arausio (105BC): Rome's Second Great Loss & the Reforms it Led to50:01How nineteenth-century assumptions reshape the migrant armyNotable Point
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video1:02:05Why historical interpretations keep changingNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:35:52Test a source against a subject you knowNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:31:46Reading Darwin with nineteenth-century evidenceNotable Point
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:11:53Who deserves command credit for Santiago?Notable Point
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:30:30Why public history should widen historical debateNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times33:08Why historical conclusions remain open to revisionNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:22:19Historians are trained to test biased sourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions56:44The myth of unquestioned British sea supremacyQ&A
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)28:28Limiting hindsight in counterfactual treaty designNotable 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 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature1:28:30Post-Jutland building plans complicate the battlecruiser failure storyNotable Point
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:35:23How to use biased naval memoirs as evidenceQ&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...17:56A 1570 epic of the Great SiegeNotable Point
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...1:50:44Where should a reader start with Ottoman history?Q&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:47:05Which siege was Malta's worst ordeal?Notable Point
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events1:34:26The 'not a gentleman' trope around aggressive commandersNotable Point
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events2:36:32Why Bruce Catton still works as an introductionNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)0:21Why Argentina's wartime politics resist simple hindsightNotable Point
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:04:01Evaluating A Matter of HonorQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:33:28A blacksmith's role in treating a medieval arrow woundChapter
- 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
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today25:26Venice and Ukraine in compressed war narrativesNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)56:00Jutland was not the Royal Navy's only design lessonNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:09:54How archival access limits a destroyer historyNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:22:44Reading Beresford through biographies and contested testimonyNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:28:04Did illness transform Beresford's character?Notable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:56:07Corbett, the war course, and a British maritime strategyNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider3:31:49How the Royal Navy understood Tribal-class namesQ&A
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)39:57Why a later painting is a weak sourceNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)0:24Narrative and technical approaches to shipbuilding historyNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:07:11Reading The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier criticallyChapter
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:40:00Why armored cruisers inherited a poor reputationNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:15:51Why Commonwealth Tribal history required archival visitsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)4:21:44What peer review should test in historical scholarshipQ&A
- The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)49:48Spengler and the hindsight of inevitabilityNotable Point
- 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
- The Challenger Expedition (Long Patrol)10:24What historians mean when they call something a discoveryNotable Point
- The Seven Years War Trailer0:40Why the Seven Years' War suits selective historical argumentsChapter
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)28:20Q&A: can theorists lack command experience?Q&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)3:09:54Q&A: indecisive battles sustain historical debateQ&A
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol1:29:46Which naval-history subjects are hardest to research?Q&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:33:00How the 'postwar Britain was broke' story took holdQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:59:11Why 'Britain stood alone' distorts wartime capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books3:30:22Three starting books for the Anglo-Dutch WarsQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat2:40:36Historical frameworks should open discussionNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol26:55Napoleon and the misuse of sea powerNotable Point
- 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)1:22:27Alan Brooke's memoir claims need source criticismQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?3:14:24The Fulmar was shaped by long-range maritime strategyChapter
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:08:35Useful counterfactuals illuminate real capability choicesQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.4:06:29Historical films compress people, duties, and motivesQ&A
- 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?21:48What Dönitz did after leaving prisonQ&A
- 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 (31):9:48A lively, journalistic history of CanarisChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (31):21:27Why the Canaris biography is worth readingNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi8:40A harsh verdict qualified by difficult sourcesNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu4:23Fushimi and Raeder: overlap without evidence of coordinationNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (27): The Tiger from Poznan1:49Why Poznań and tank-book traditions repay attentionNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:28:15What makes a museum historically responsible?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:18:32Why naval history demands more than battle narrativesNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (23): Rome's Great Eastern War7:23Looking beyond Mithridates to TigranesNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (23): Rome's Great Eastern War11:39Political decisions extend beyond the headline leaderNotable 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? (3)2:16:28Churchill's First World War leadership under fireQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)2:40:01Testing the Operation Paul theory for HMS GloriousQ&A
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Harlech Castle - Long Patrol P12/1441:11Falklands/Malvinas and national names for warsNotable Point
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol8:07Why Athos matters despite the dating problemChapter
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol30:19Seydi Ali Pasha and the limits of English-language sourcesChapter
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol33:34Dmitry Senyavin's long career and contested reputationNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (6): Plantagenet Princes14:33Annulment restores Eleanor's lands but not her daughtersChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (6): Plantagenet Princes22:05Medieval royal history as politicsNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI28:21Why can military history be publicly popular but academically marginal?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI59:48Why be cautious when judging poorly documented French admirals?Q&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:57:12Judging historical figures in contextNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty0:33Beatty biography as a balancing sourceChapter
- 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
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191224:10Reading past the two-sided naval-race storyNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:23:20Churchill's own writings complicate heroic and villainous portraitsNotable 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 History6:41Test a history book where its argument must still carry weightNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History35:30Historical depth lies beneath covers and bite-sized eventsNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval15:45The Dark Ages label hides institutional continuityNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval26:08Why does the Dark Ages label persist?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval29:31Infrastructure provides a more precise question than the Dark Ages labelNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:12:16Force Z's loss angered Britain more than it demoralized itQ&A
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies9:36Modern aggression behind feudal languageChapter
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies22:21Did the Second World War begin politically in 1919?Q&A
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies2:48:09The invented surrender at WeihaiweiNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA4:19A polished Hopkins-Churchill story becomes a lesson in source criticismNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:27:38Why school history compresses a larger storyNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:30:45Lincoln, political truth, and omissionNotable Point
- Four Random Books 24: Power, Money & Strategy in 1930s15:36Why broad surveys and specialist studies belong togetherNotable Point
- 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 Relations1:34:32Where history meets international-relations theoryQ&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:38:10ReOrient as a factual rebalancing of economic historyNotable 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
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:18:15Roosevelt on national survival and neutral rightsNotable Point
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today21:36Is there a good study of Britain's Santo Domingo campaign?Q&A
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 413:42The limits of a foreign naval perspective on ChinaNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 341:47A three-phase piracy model needs evidence and communications caveatsNotable Point
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 32243:54Why paper aircraft disappear from popular historyNotable Point
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations9:07Names frame Falklands and Second World War historyNotable Point
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations2:07:42Using a quotation to open a history essayNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:08:43Why later naval histories underuse professional transactionsQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History5:31Popular history as a starting pointNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History18:26Why campaigns are remembered through commandersQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:19:05Churchill as a popular-history sales signalNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:20:15Why the Cold War could look peaceful from Western EuropeQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:52:09The uncertain survival of Henderson's diaryNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:58:49HMS Eskimo at Narvik: severe damage and return to serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History2:08:44What makes Dimbleby's Battle of the Atlantic a useful introductionNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History2:56:21Legions of Rome as a unit-history referenceChapter
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:00:45The Tenth Legion's naval emblem and Caesar's trusted bodyguardChapter
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:05:13Mommsen's Sicilian explanation for the Tenth FretensisNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:07:57What the Gemina equestris inscription can establishNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:10:11An Otranto hypothesis for the name FretensisNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:19:10Moral judgment without turning history into caricatureQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:39:41Bad actors can still make rational tactical decisionsQ&A
- Patreon 13: Martin Doherty: What if Gallipoli had succeeded?2:24:43Why political stability looks different in hindsightQ&A
- Four Random Books 15: Civil War2:10Using Max Hastings as a Korean War overviewNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys15:09Wartime orders and USS Indianapolis conspiracy theoriesNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:53:20How synthesized references should be disclosedQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:14:47Why dismissing the Italian Navy also distorts Royal Navy historyQ&A
- Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"1:44:40Which books introduce the Hundred Years War?Q&A
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:35:58Military history without gatekeepingNotable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:25:42Election results and one-note histories of ThatcherNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 1 of 5: Introduction12:13The proposed Altmark search and conflicting recollectionsNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-1021:03Counterfactual reasoning versus alternate historyNotable 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
- Four Random Books 8: Churchill5:16Using Dreadnought as a synthetic naval historyNotable Point
- Four Random Books 8: Churchill12:31Massie's portraits of Sturdee, Jellicoe, and BeattyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A31:16Comparing Midway histories through their sourcesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:55:30What a wartime Brassey's reveals in real timeNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:19:39How historians layer reference works and later interpretationsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson8:15Reading lively naval history with an eye on its referencesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 1: Stuart Age5:21Cromwell as a complicated historical subjectNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:12:52The English-language gap in Russian special-forces historyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:18:57Task Force Black as a contested Iraq-war starting pointNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:14:15Why historical evidence needs competing perspectivesQ&A
- An Introduction to Naval Diplomacy1:38Reading naval diplomacy beyond gunboatsNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A35:11Why later wars leave more officer memoirsNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:12:44A starting history for the post-war Royal NavyQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:30:05The missing memoirs of Admiral AllisonQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:19:43How post-war narratives reshaped Montgomery and PattonNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:43:21How post-war German memoirs rebuilt a military mythNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:10:33Reading Fuller and Liddell Hart criticallyQ&A
- 50th Live Special: Thank You5:31Books preserve professional naval judgmentNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You28:42Tracing the 'quantity has a quality' quotationNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:21:30Hunt-class escorts and adapted V and W destroyersNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A12:00Reading a Soviet-era Stalin biography criticallyChapter
- 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
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:05:53Boudicca and judging people in their own timeQ&A
- Cruise of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video0:16Reading Admiral Graf Spee's cruise as strategyChapter