Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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  1. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:25:59Photographs of unfinished Yorck, Lion, and H39 projectsQ&A
  2. Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:14:17Tracing the chosen Minotaur-class preliminary designQ&A
  3. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    3:33:30Pink slips trace Royal Navy fleet movements day by dayQ&A
  4. Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:25:47British super-long gun experiments before the treatiesQ&A
  5. Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:27:34Where to look for the super-long Elswick gun recordsQ&A
  6. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    19:53Finding the naval acts among thousands of scanned pagesNotable Point
  7. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    2:23:05Where to research interwar Royal Navy explosivesQ&A
  8. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    2:24:23Important naval files can remain unread for decadesNotable Point
  9. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    2:30:24Visiting the archives to study interwar carrier designQ&A
  10. Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:00:08What shipbreaking-yard records can and cannot revealQ&A
  11. What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?
    31:43Surviving design records preserve only part of the debateNotable Point
  12. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:11:01Destroyer tow proposals and the limits of personal archival accountsQ&A
  13. Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:10:42The unnamed fifth and sixth Lion-class battleshipsQ&A
  14. Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:31:25Which missing British design files historians most want to findQ&A
  15. Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:00:18Why even famous warships still have undocumented detailsQ&A
  16. The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!
    5:42Reconstructing Dalrymple-Hamilton's early careerChapter
  17. The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!
    21:09Why AI struggles with historical handwritingQ&A
  18. Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II
    45:05A naval-archive oddity: the turtleback battleshipQ&A
  19. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    1:09:55Tribal-class naming studies as unexpected oral-history archivesNotable Point
  20. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    1:13:27What published naval dispatches reveal about communicationNotable Point
  21. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    2:26:28Checking new archive releases before a naval history book goes to pressQ&A
  22. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    2:29:39Why an archive index may survive when its files cannot be foundQ&A
  23. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    2:31:35Why one naval archive document rarely settles an argumentNotable Point
  24. Historiophon & Christmas Season Announcement/Schedules
    8:24When an archive visit costs less than ordering photographsNotable Point
  25. Historiophon & Christmas Season Announcement/Schedules
    17:17Naval-history primers, archive access, and global coverageNotable Point
  26. Historiophon & Christmas Season Announcement/Schedules
    20:35When a leadership profile requires archival researchNotable Point
  27. Historiophon & Christmas Season Announcement/Schedules
    28:22The ethical case for paying archive-image fees consistentlyNotable Point
  28. Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall
    1:50:40Why the Queen Elizabeth class missed its expected speedQ&A
  29. Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:01:13Secret warship projects and the limits of surviving archivesNotable Point
  30. Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!
    50:18How to trace a missing naval accident recordQ&A
  31. The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 6
    0:00The treaty uncertainty behind a forgotten battleship generationChapter
  32. The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 6
    22:37Missing sixteen-inch studies expose gaps in the design recordNotable Point
  33. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    3:41:26Why surviving Japanese documents need archival contextNotable Point
  34. Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō
    7:21Why archive access limited the book's scopeNotable Point
  35. Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History
    59:23Why British autoloader research is difficult to reconstructQ&A
  36. Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 2
    15:34Foxglove's refit records expose shifting small-ship armamentNotable Point
  37. Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 2
    25:41Reading a Southampton-class legend of particularsChapter
  38. Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 2
    52:16What Royal Navy paperwork reveals - and concealsNotable Point
  39. Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases
    4:26:43Find an obscure project through its neighboursQ&A
  40. A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)
    26:23Exercise names and archival cross-checkingNotable Point
  41. Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:56:38British government records are not simply public domainQ&A
  42. Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    2:33:53Why some Second World War intelligence secrets may remain lostQ&A
  43. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics
    4:23:17Why some warship design studies are better documentedQ&A
  44. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 4
    2:38:29Reconstructing shipyard history across fragmented archivesNotable Point
  45. Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney
    58:02How HMAS Vampire's badge acquired a meaningless Latin mottoChapter
  46. Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney
    1:21:52Cockatoo Island as a record of Australian naval repairNotable Point
  47. Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane
    34:40Tracing warship visits to British promenade piersQ&A
  48. Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada
    2:50:11Where to research HMS Royal Sovereign's Soviet serviceQ&A
  49. Ship Shape & Running on Gas
    0:28Australia's surviving Crimean War ship enginesNotable Point
  50. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    44:34The archival clue behind an Admiral-class carrier theoryNotable Point
  51. Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1
    27:50How to reconstruct an uneventful warship careerNotable Point
  52. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    2:55:13Why the Spanish-American War is difficult to researchQ&A
  53. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)
    20:24Testing a triple-turret HMS Tiger in the archivesQ&A
  54. Some Sunday Naval Books
    11:34Finding naval archives through reference guidesNotable Point
  55. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)
    3:37:02The evidence for unofficial Tribal-class torpedo reloadsNotable Point
  56. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    1:44:36The Royal Navy's early triple-turret programmeQ&A
  57. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)
    6:26Why the mystery turret photograph cannot yet be shownQ&A
  58. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)
    12:09Would Vickers build a triple turret as a sales prototype?Q&A
  59. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)
    22:07A possible 1907 constructors-course triple-turret leadNotable Point
  60. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)
    31:50Why the mystery turret looks more like 14-inch than 12-inchQ&A
  61. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)
    39:47Industrial records and test mounts as archival leadsNotable Point
  62. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)
    45:12Following the Vickers trail to Barrow-in-FurnessQ&A
  63. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)
    50:00Where to look for early triple-turret evidenceNotable Point
  64. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)
    0:27A possible 1909 triple-gun turretChapter
  65. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)
    22:03How the mystery turret could be traced in the archivesNotable Point
  66. Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived
    5:04Photographs, design tables, and the HMS Lagos builder's guideNotable Point
  67. Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived
    8:46Using photographs and maps to follow a destroyer classNotable Point
  68. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    3:31:47Where to research HMS Badger and an obscure sloopQ&A
  69. Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence
    57:21Why lost Japanese records limit claims about wartime technologyChapter
  70. A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 1940
    0:20A Norway campaign history built from Royal Navy recordsChapter
  71. A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 1940
    8:04Following British preparations through force recordsNotable Point
  72. A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 1940
    17:22Working with reproduced records between archive visitsChapter
  73. A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 1940
    18:36Using published archives to plan deeper researchChapter
  74. Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships
    3:07:43Where can researchers find Imperial German naval records?Q&A
  75. Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword
    2:54:29How wartime observers compared amphibious theatresQ&A
  76. Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword
    4:00:49The Admiralty's interwar studies of merchant shippingQ&A
  77. Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)
    2:45Between Hostile Shores as an archive guideChapter
  78. Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books
    2:02:16Where to research British naval design recordsQ&A
  79. Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War
    9:27An unidentified royal photograph tests ship attributionNotable Point
  80. Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    36:30A reference for Fleet Air Arm squadron historiesChapter
  81. A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history
    21:25The uncertain Victorian steam LeanderNotable Point