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- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live20:12Royal Navy admirals and the loss of the Third Sea LordQ&A
- William Adams - the English Samurai from the 17th Century... whose memorial I stumbled into!18:22Tudor royal ships and the later naval institutionChapter
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:19:53Corruption in the Navy of Samuel PepysQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 23:12:41Why a fictional naval command still needs administrationQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...2:21Admiralty expertise under political authorityNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...36:00Three Royal Navy pay scales before InvergordonChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...55:41Port inquiries and the revised 10 percent pay ceilingNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...1:00:28Training reform without a pastoral information systemChapter
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:43Sea Lord responsibilities in Azur Lane's rigging problemQ&A
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality29:07Guard ships could insist on merchant wages before enlistmentChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality30:03Emergency manning left pursers responsible for sailors' unpaid wagesNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...2:50The Third Sea Lord tied procurement to one accountable officeNotable Point
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:35False musters collapse when a ship has to performQ&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...1:16:39Shipyard oversight and the limits of constant interventionChapter
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...1:32:10Portfolio executives and competing acquisition responsibilitiesChapter
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...1:43:55How often should amphibious readiness be reviewed?Notable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...1:53:36Does the Royal Navy have more admirals than ships?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:46:07Maintenance authority and the sailors needed to use itNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:38:04Can a navy be run like a business?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:42:25Does landlocked Switzerland have a navy?Q&A
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- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:16Responsibility for Hood's injuries in Azur LaneQ&A
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- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?8:39Why German torpedo boats carried numbers, not namesNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers10:18The Royal Navy's unrealized 1931 carrier studyChapter
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers42:49Chatfield and Henderson reveal power inside naval administrationNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle6:01:50Cromwell's funding and the institutional Royal NavyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:51:30Why the postwar Royal Navy adopted Type numbersQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:51Which admirals would make effective inspectors generalQ&A
- Key Books: Prof Andrew Lambert's "No More Napoleons!"18:36Privateer losses made trade defense a national commitmentNotable Point
- Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean55:11Major-General of Marines as a reward for continued serviceNotable Point
- Captain Maurice Suckling: From Walpole to Nelson in one degree of Seperation45:35Thames guardship duty trained Suckling as an administratorNotable Point
- Captain Maurice Suckling: From Walpole to Nelson in one degree of Seperation48:41Controller of the Navy placed Suckling over naval resourcesChapter
- Captain Maurice Suckling: From Walpole to Nelson in one degree of Seperation53:19Could Suckling have filled a St Vincent-style role?Notable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence1:02:57Hornby demanded a professional naval staffChapter
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence1:07:22What if Hornby's reforms began in 1876?Notable Point
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada23:40Elizabeth's ministers sustained effective naval commandNotable Point
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit29:40Broadening command and staff experienceChapter
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:12Which admirals deserved latrine duty instead of command?Q&A
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- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:51:47Why Germany's naval staff was less effectiveQ&A
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII38:22When naval growth outran civilian oversightChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...39:13American rank policy complicated coalition commandNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...42:02Why procurement programs need senior officersNotable Point
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin2:40:04Yi Sun-sin compared with Jackie FisherQ&A
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?25:20Fast promotion limited Scheer's command developmentChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic25:40William May turns convalescence into an Admiralty apprenticeshipNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:33How Qing fleet rivalry weakened resistance to JapanNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!2:14:05The Rowleys carried flag rank into naval administrationNotable Point
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?54:55Reginald Henderson represents institutional admiralshipNotable Point
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina23:21From decorated captain to naval institution-builderChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:52:07Naval Secretary and the Navy's senior cultureChapter
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship43:32Deputy Director of Signals carried authority beyond Somerville's rankChapter
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition35:50Reginald Hall's command culture aboard Queen MaryChapter
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees12:20Infrastructure makes ships into a sustainable fleetChapter
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees1:54:00Victory embodied 250 years of national investmentChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...27:14How the pre-1869 Admiralty divided design authorityNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…1:20:33Funding an orphanage for sailors' childrenNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…1:24:22Jervis confronts the Navy Board and dockyardsChapter
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…1:35:04Henry Dundas and the political cost of naval reformNotable Point
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live2:15:53Resident commissioners stake their livelihood on dockyard qualityNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes56:54Flag rank, prize money, and Rodney's family ambitionChapter
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes1:11:02Flag colours, seniority, and admirals of the yellowChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command26:52Astley Cooper Key establishes Greenwich for practical professionalismChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked0:00Eight centuries behind the British AdmiraltyChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked14:14Why the Lord High Admiral was put into commissionChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked20:58From the Senior Naval Lord to numbered Sea LordsNotable Point
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked27:22The Controller's power over dockyard constituenciesNotable Point
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked35:47How Navy Board powers moved into the AdmiraltyChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked37:08How First and Third Sea Lords divided global and domestic workChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked1:05:33The Admiralty as an early specialist civil serviceChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked1:21:19Hood's hard discipline and uneven administrationNotable Point
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked1:45:07Vesey Hamilton maps the Admiralty's departmentsNotable Point
- How effective was the Russian Navy3:42A layered and mismatched naval administrationNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!22:07Victory at the Saintes collides with a political recallNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!31:31Why naval patronage still required competenceNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!1:00:35Newfoundland combines naval pay, cod protection, and politicsChapter
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!1:50:02High rank, Jamaica, and financial exile in ParisChapter
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!3:01:33Recall, reward, and Rodney's quiet retirementChapter
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'3:00Elizabethan naval support becomes a working institutionNotable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'4:52Elizabethan crew pay creates a retention dilemmaNotable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'16:24The Lord High Admiral's administrative and diplomatic reachNotable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:06Churchill and Sandwich swap First Lord erasQ&A
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...40:36Why the Admiralty resisted a modern naval staffChapter
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...44:35Women formed part of an admiral's informal age-of-sail staffNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:01:36Funding reform could reach beyond naval technologyNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live4:26How the Admiralty became a permanent naval administrationChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live7:09Why a sophisticated civil service delayed a naval staffNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live12:37The Navy Board and Admiralty Board divide naval powerChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live14:14Who maintained ships laid up in ordinary?Q&A
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live31:58Why the Admiralty developed a permanent secretaryNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live34:05Why Britain kept such an awkward Admiralty structureQ&A
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live49:05The Treasurer of the Navy controlled a separate pay machineNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:06:22Russell's three offices turned naval authority into a circleNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:24:43Honest Admiralty leaders still had to work within patronageQ&A
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:26:52Admiralty guards did not sell entry at the doorQ&A
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:42:06Could familiar patronage habits limit corruption?Notable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:52:38Did the Navy Board change with each government?Q&A
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:05:24Political and professional naval leadership separateChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:28:49Abolishing the Navy Board left its work to be reassignedNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:04:02Hamilton's Admiralty manual anticipates later reformNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:55:55Funding the crews and support for forward presenceQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:57:11Naval writers and the burden of officer paperworkNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:01:29The Sea Lords' responsibilities and the Admiralty boardNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience4:08:34Farragut led wherever the organization needed himNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:10:34British theater command before modern combatant commandsQ&A
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral3:30An admiralty administration before a standing Royal NavyNotable Point
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral6:25Why Edward I needed an admiral rather than another marshalNotable Point
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral8:31Commissioning and returning merchant ships for royal serviceChapter
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral12:11The apparent gap in England's admiralty recordChapter
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral21:25Medina Sidonia's administrative strengths and Armada commandChapter
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral25:01How institutions create command mismatchesNotable Point
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War10:13Lionel Tufnell brings engineering logic to Greek naval reformNotable Point
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War34:46Fleet-in-being orders constrain the Ottoman commanderChapter
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:03:49Women aboard age-of-sail warships were part of fleet lifeNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/419:50Jellicoe and the power of the Third Sea LordChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/423:23What a new Third Sea Lord inherited and left behindNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/432:33How the Third Sea Lord controlled naval contractsNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/437:18Why Third Sea Lords often became First Sea LordsNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/452:43Was Reginald Bacon Third Sea Lord?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:03:51How Jellicoe won construction battles without confrontationNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:39:15What the Third Sea Lord title added to the Controller's roleQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....40:37Crew size follows systems, not hull sizeQ&A
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:45:37Battenberg's resignation and factional naval politicsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:25:43Royal-family convention, Parliament, and naval MPsQ&A
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 423:52HMS Union, hospital conversion, and naval capacityChapter
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 20:25How larger ships made the rating system grow upwardChapter
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 27:07How earlier first-rate performance moved down the ratingsNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 212:26The Surveyor of the Navy and Royal George's changing designersChapter
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:01:24When the ideal naval officer diverged from operational needNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:20:59The informal staff behind an age-of-sail admiralNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins24:37Choosing wartime Sea Lords without weakening the fleetsQ&A
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- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...15:05Why administration is First Sea Lord strategyNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:27:43War Staff personnel and political compromiseNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:51:25The First Sea Lord as information managerNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...2:15:26Battenberg's forgotten War Staff legacyChapter
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:04:15How the Royal Navy governed ordnance procurementQ&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:25Battenberg's qualifications for First Sea LordChapter
- 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?25:42Could Battenberg outlast the Admiralty factions?Notable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?33:43Battenberg's record in training and readinessNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?36:52Kept available for service, but given no commandNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?45:18Staff losses and factional disputes weakened Battenberg's AdmiraltyNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?47:01Fleet concentration and a possible deterrent cruiseNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:31:52Battenberg's late-1916 succession and naval research roleNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:58:00Would Jellicoe remain First Sea Lord longer?Q&A
- 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
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:04:50How the Royal Navy's rating system emergedQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism29:11Great frigates could not substitute for an American battle fleetNotable Point
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues41:05Moffett's need for descriptive squadron labelsChapter
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues44:43Descriptive nomenclature and American military cultureNotable Point
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues54:20Assigning responsibility for squadron reorganizationNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:35:55How a US naval attaché reported from an embassyQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered22:55Why Anson and Howe sat far down the admiral-name listQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:23:24When King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II could become ship namesQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:43:47Thunder Child and Pendennis Castle as unused Royal Navy namesQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:19:33A directory maps Imperial Japanese Navy commands and captainsChapter
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:25:44Why Royal Navy writers carry unusual influenceQ&A
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?34:19Why Ottoman naval reform needed outside experienceNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:04:05Bernard Austin from destroyer combat to naval administrationChapter
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:44:44Ancient ship names meet the scale of small-craft fleetsQ&A
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- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)54:19Postwar prize money and naval serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built27:26Samuel Pepys and the value of naval administrationNotable Point
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough15:07The rating system began as a pay systemNotable Point
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail25:18Sandwich's hard-working but politically weaker AdmiraltyNotable Point
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail51:45The Nore mutiny changed personnel managementNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:16:35Reassessing Lord Sandwich at the AdmiraltyNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)31:31Institutional memory set the Royal Navy's prioritiesNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon28:45Short appointments let industry delay shell reformNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:08:01How a warship passes from operations to maintenanceQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:14:37The CID's attempt to direct defence policy across the servicesNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada45:39Chile's first president returned to organize its navyChapter
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:01:24The strategic range inside a Mahan collectionNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:55:41Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy's foundationsQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)1:39:10Samuel Pepys and the work of naval administrationQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)1:41:30Why leaders must build an effective command teamNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:16:43Lord Sandwich and Admiralty strategy in the Age of SailNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition10:21The investment behind British naval superiorityNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition1:20:14Why the Western Squadron drew senior commandersNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition1:43:09Q&A: Punishments an admiral could fear more than executionQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:10:53Q&A: What Admiral of the Yellow meantQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:26:04Edward Russell's naval and political careerNotable Point
- Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay6:46Long-term government and Portsmouth DockyardNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.48:56How authority over naval construction changed after the First World WarNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:17:17How political support shaped Walker's steam-fleet programmeNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)1:21:48Why Samuel Pepys could be corrupt and effectiveQ&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)1:29:10Reformed naval administration unlocks first ratesNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:57:08Shipyards need administrative memory to regenerate fleetsNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response39:54How naval staffs could balance forceful political leadersQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:17:53Did the building race distract from preparing the fleet to fight?Q&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:25:04Could the design office develop two capital ships at once?Q&A
- Ship Design3:05Rope accounts and missing practical knowledgeNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century0:00Why warship ratings are planning averagesNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century33:26Dockyard infrastructure and state capacityNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century36:50Guard ships after the Dutch War shocksNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century41:06From Henry VII's categories to Pepys's ratingsNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century43:02Pepys's reporting network against naval fraudNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century47:02The rating system as budget controlNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century48:17Rating revisions and tons burthenNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:35:59Third-rate balance and administrative depthNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat4:02:55Why Russian nuclear-powered ships receive closer oversightQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat4:07:12Nuclear weapons and propulsion oversight often coincideQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine3:48Why dictatorship could make naval administration less efficientNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:21:03Competing bureaus and oversized cruiser designsNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:24:48Why dangerous organisations stop asking whether a design is rightNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response20:31Would Fisher have been a better wartime First Lord?Q&A
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 56:10William White and professional naval constructionChapter
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 58:28The royal-yacht crisis and White's leadership burdenNotable Point
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 510:16William White's 245-ship construction recordNotable Point
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 511:56Why delegation was a naval-construction problemNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War3:22:18Argus messes managed their own food accountsChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:55:24St Vincent's strategic strength and administrative failureChapter
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More2:53:14A 36-hour watch is brutal and operationally wastefulQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 348:50Cochrane as St Vincent's persistent naval opponentQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:15:37Oliver Cromwell as a First Sea LordQ&A
- New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers14:04The Bureau of Construction and Repair behind the classChapter
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-402:14:53Why the date a lost ship leaves the navy list mattersQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times7:48The human cost of rebuilding the Royal NavyNotable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)22:54Naval chiefs faced a revived Jeune EcoleChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)27:02Thirty cabinets kept naval policy in motionChapter
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)51:40How political turnover disrupted French naval policyChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))38:55A wartime Admiralty needed leadership depthChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)35:35How British and American admiral numbers comparedQ&A
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)43:48Why some senior officers chose convoys over staff postsQ&A
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:01:22Could the First Sea Lord control every admiral's employment?Q&A
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:31:16How the Fifth Sea Lord related to naval aviationQ&A
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:42:57The practical reasons admirals retired during warChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:53:38The Admiralty needed depth far below the First Sea LordChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:57:32Wartime expansion multiplied the demand for senior experienceNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)2:19:21Recalled predecessors could protect their successorsNotable Point
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)43:34John Markham connects sea command to Admiralty leadershipNotable Point
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)1:30:00Evan Nepean's dispatch desk led to an imperial careerNotable Point
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)27:42Why obsolete force names survived changing missionsNotable Point
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future18:20Why shore establishments became stone frigatesQ&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future21:08Which Royal Navy ship name has been used most often?Q&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...18:46Why corruption does not guarantee military collapseNotable Point
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...33:17How the Royal Navy exposed phantom crewsQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...54:34First Lord, First Sea Lord, and Admiralty rolesQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...3:00:52What it means when a warship is paid offQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:07:38How the Royal Navy's ship-naming committee guarded its authorityQ&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)52:23Kimmel as Franklin Roosevelt's naval aideChapter
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:02:25Purser and writer roles in naval administrationQ&A
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)21:33Local shipwrights and administration sustained Bombay DockyardNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)0:21Caisson pronunciation and period spelling in naval recordsNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)12:25Annual dock surveys linked new ships to shore spendingNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)3:57Who really controls cruiser design?Notable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:35:14Other fleets rivaled the Second Pacific Squadron's dysfunctionQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...35:28Did other sailing navies use similar maintenance systems?Q&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat3:15:39A research route for Royal Navy pensionsQ&A
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p3: Royal Navy Fleet Commanders3:42Admirals as global commanders and administratorsNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p1: Strategy & Some Priniciple Personalities45:24Gambier and the Admiralty command structureChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol6:51Five admiralties in a divided Dutch naval systemChapter
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…3:28:22Sea Lord roles after rank and title changesQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi3:46A career shaped by staff and ministry postsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:25:02Political disasters in naval administrationQ&A
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?35:30Warship design was not a French scientific monopolyNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol11:37Family connections and naval advancementNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol20:50Prize money, dispatches, and Calder's public honorNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol26:46Wartime expansion of the admirals listNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol58:06Court verdict and Plymouth shore commandNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:32:31What happened when a captured ship duplicated a Royal Navy nameQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail17:22Naval history as national historyChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:20:13Why Royal Navy admirals carried red, white, and blue ranksQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?51:41Why peacetime promotion slowed the Georgian Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:42:29Why Churchill endured as First Lord of the AdmiraltyQ&A
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)24:15How Cochrane built forces ahead of Admiralty paperworkNotable Point
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)26:19Was London afraid Cochrane might declare independence?Q&A
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)28:31How Cochrane hid combat power inside transport classificationsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys31:10How wartime prize money was distributed after 1945Notable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 2: Debate20:15Peacetime hid the cost of obsolete funding rulesNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:41:58Samuel Pepys and the professionalization of the Royal NavyChapter
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:46:33Pepys, the Popish Plot and royal patronageNotable Point
- Four Random Books 16: It's A Question of Dates0:48How permanent state navies displaced older armed institutionsNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:17:23Was there an American equivalent to Admiral Henderson?Q&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:33:47When a standing English navy becomes recognizableQ&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay40:50Did Hawke still seek command at sea?Q&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay45:55Hawke's political backing and naval effectivenessQ&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War2:05:39Oswyn Murray and Admiralty administrationChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:06:26Henderson's carrier work without a fleet commandNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:55:19Oswin Murray and continuity at the AdmiraltyChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 432:35Reginald Henderson links China service, carriers, and naval administrationNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 232:49State finance constrained mobilizationNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 1 of 225:30Cecil, Walsingham, Howard, Drake, and Hawkins form a connected teamChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A9:02Churchill among the First Lords of the AdmiraltyQ&A
- 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 history17:07A second Leander for distant-station serviceChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A47:07Cromwell's role in creating a professional navyQ&A
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)19:13Henderson's shipyard intelligence and practical naval innovationNotable Point