Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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  1. William Adams - the English Samurai from the 17th Century... whose memorial I stumbled into!
    1:49:52Reading Adams's letters against later mythologyNotable Point
  2. Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    29:57How to weigh conflicting firsthand military accountsQ&A
  3. Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    32:17Falklands recollections and shipboard decompressionNotable Point
  4. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    19:53Finding the naval acts among thousands of scanned pagesNotable Point
  5. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    29:26Sims and Mahan provide complementary primary-source views of sea powerNotable Point
  6. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    44:26Defense budgets leave very different archival trailsNotable Point
  7. Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:39:38Checking private Grand Fleet papers against published historyNotable Point
  8. Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII
    17:19Archive access shaped the Tribal destroyer bookNotable Point
  9. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    43:30Building a naval biography from personal evidenceQ&A
  10. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    1:23:55How redactions distorted the Sir Galahad inquiry recordNotable Point
  11. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    7:05:05The uncertain evidence for a British 20-inch/54 gunNotable Point
  12. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    7:06:24Where the 20-inch gun reference was foundQ&A
  13. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    7:07:02Roskill's evidentiary standard for official naval historyNotable Point
  14. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    2:09:05Using naval staff histories and Jellicoe to approach the original recordQ&A
  15. Why Historians rank sources?
    0:00Why proximity to events shapes source rankingQ&A
  16. Why Historians rank sources?
    0:41Jutland reports show why versions matterNotable Point
  17. Why Historians rank sources?
    1:40Reconstructing a battle from different viewpointsNotable Point
  18. Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit
    23:27Reading Richardson's redacted Pearl Harbor memoirNotable Point
  19. Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy
    2:05:29Source bias begins with what evidence a historian can reachNotable Point
  20. Historian Why Historians include or don't include seminal works in their source lists...
    0:00Why a historian may omit a seminal workQ&A
  21. Historian Why Historians include or don't include seminal works in their source lists...
    1:29How differences of perspective become book controversyNotable Point
  22. Why do Historians always read the Source List first?
    0:00Primary sources reveal an argument's foundationChapter
  23. Why do Historians always read the Source List first?
    1:52Ask who supplied the informationNotable Point
  24. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    21:51Reading participants' accounts against one anotherNotable Point
  25. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    1:28:18Reading Japanese planning documents as public positionsNotable Point
  26. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    2:06:41Memoir errors and accusations of dishonestyNotable Point
  27. Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:34:33Why naval historians still need archive research tripsQ&A
  28. Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...
    39:02Altmark accounts show the limits of historical proofNotable Point
  29. Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...
    52:28Why Vian's autobiography matters as leadership evidenceNotable Point
  30. A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin
    1:38:24Reconstructing the Imjin War requires source criticismNotable Point
  31. A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin
    1:43:48Why naval historians must work as generalistsNotable Point
  32. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    49:55Scheer's memoir preserves his wartime pictureNotable Point
  33. Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...
    15:27Correction to a British trade and convoy tableNotable Point
  34. Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?
    54:12Archive evidence sets limits on the tender counterfactualNotable Point
  35. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    19:11Laughton builds the sources needed for serious naval historyNotable Point
  36. Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...
    35:12Why translated sources need cultural contextNotable Point
  37. David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience
    4:11:30Source availability shapes what can be taught fairlyNotable Point
  38. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    4:14:38Maritime mysteries hidden by incomplete recordsQ&A
  39. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    4:24:27Why medieval naval commanders are hard to identifyQ&A
  40. The Monroe Doctrine: The Myth, The Legend, The Rhetoric, The Reality!
    0:00Why the Monroe Doctrine is not one documentChapter
  41. Battle of Chattanooga(1863)
    37:29Lincoln and McClellan remembered the same meeting differentlyNotable Point
  42. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    32:19The word 'hooker' predates General Hooker's fameNotable Point
  43. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    43:02Hooker's reputation demonstrates the limits of newspaper gossipNotable Point
  44. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    50:27Lincoln and McClellan heard the same meeting differentlyNotable Point
  45. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    1:48:03How to read Liddell Hart's Sherman profileNotable Point
  46. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    1:49:29Is Liddell Hart's Sherman worth reading?Q&A
  47. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    2:13:18Two versions survive of Granger's remarkNotable Point
  48. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    22:04Why historical corrections need inspectable sourcesNotable Point
  49. The Lessons of Never Built Carriers
    49:18How published primary sources guide archive researchNotable Point
  50. Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!
    30:32Researching naval counterfactuals without hindsightNotable Point
  51. Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    58:49Can the Royal Navy's 18-inch-gun tests be documented?Q&A
  52. 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
  53. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    3:50:20Documentary proof and historical inferenceQ&A
  54. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    4:02:01The disputed second Tiger-class battlecruiserQ&A
  55. Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!
    1:11:45Reading Lyngør through Captain Stewart's dispatchNotable Point
  56. Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle
    31:16Read naval decisions forward, without hindsightNotable Point
  57. Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle
    1:13:39A timestamp error exposes the limits of primary sourcesNotable Point
  58. Battle of Blackett Strait
    12:34Phone photography turns archive visits into efficient research sessionsNotable Point
  59. MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 2
    8:08Why MAC ship origins require archival detective workNotable Point
  60. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    21:50Personal papers fill gaps in the official archiveNotable Point
  61. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    1:03:33Archival battle summaries of the Pacific WarChapter
  62. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    1:22:30Using acknowledged bias as historical evidenceQ&A
  63. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    1:14:56Language access redirects research toward underused national sourcesQ&A
  64. Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō
    7:21Why archive access limited the book's scopeNotable Point
  65. USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response
    0:15Historical context, revision, and primary sourcesNotable Point
  66. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 2
    1:23:32Historical method beyond credentialsChapter
  67. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 2
    1:28:00Neglected British carrier cases drive new researchNotable Point
  68. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    2:56:15Why historians must trace papers across many archivesNotable Point
  69. Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back
    9:19A repeated Dove quotation points in the wrong directionNotable Point
  70. Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 2
    25:41Reading a Southampton-class legend of particularsChapter
  71. Memoirs as Historical Sources
    1:43How should memoirs be used as historical sources?Q&A
  72. Memoirs as Historical Sources
    6:27Decide what kind of evidence a memoir providesChapter
  73. Memoirs as Historical Sources
    17:13Use layered citations to make arguments checkableNotable Point
  74. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    3:56:19What good-faith historical research requiresNotable Point
  75. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    3:59:07How inaccessible sources complicate historical disagreementNotable Point
  76. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    4:17:47Can an unpromising research project be recognised in advance?Q&A
  77. 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
  78. HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 9
    1:04:54Why historians separate proof from beliefNotable Point
  79. HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 8
    21:00Sydney Bailey and the difference between staff skill and sea commandNotable Point
  80. Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney
    30:55Why one government position paper does not prove adopted policyQ&A
  81. Bruships 111: Random Books of History
    2:28:32The Glorious First of June through contemporary lettersChapter
  82. Battle of Hakodate(1869)
    1:14:16Ernest Satow as a witness to Restoration diplomacyNotable Point
  83. Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus
    1:50:36Reading Mahan as a theorist and naval educatorNotable Point
  84. Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword
    13:59Teaching history through primary sourcesQ&A
  85. Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books
    1:31:24How Nelson's testimony corrects the HMS Glasgow rescue storyNotable Point
  86. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    3:00:52Stalin's rehearsed speeches and hierarchy of public praiseChapter
  87. USS Wichita: Comment Response
    14:27Royal Navy pink lists and cruiser readiness codesNotable Point
  88. First Fleet: Founding of Australia
    1:09:28Robert Ross, George Johnston, and colonial military cultureChapter
  89. Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History
    1:38:42Using a documentary sourcebook to study the Anglo-German naval raceChapter
  90. Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History
    1:57:23Jellicoe and Churchill debate British and German warship designChapter
  91. Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions
    28:09A torpedo-boat report preserves combat uncertaintyQ&A
  92. Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions
    1:02:07Recent scholarship can map a history paper's sourcesQ&A
  93. Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books
    2:03:46Why archaeology works best beside written sourcesNotable Point
  94. Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books
    3:27:45Using document collections before visiting the archivesNotable Point
  95. Bruships 90: Books From the Road
    2:31:28Missing records can be as revealing as surviving primary sourcesQ&A
  96. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 4
    7:43How to research Royal Navy anti-slavery patrols around AfricaQ&A
  97. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    3:08:34Brassey's 1900 Naval Annual as a design sourceNotable Point
  98. Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1
    27:50How to reconstruct an uneventful warship careerNotable Point
  99. Bruships 88: Way of War
    2:45:20Somerville watches the Bismarck chase unfoldChapter
  100. If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France
    9:18Reconciling conflicting French fleet-location sourcesNotable Point
  101. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    2:55:13Why the Spanish-American War is difficult to researchQ&A
  102. Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina
    1:13Published operational reports open the Royal Navy archiveNotable Point
  103. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    2:45:03Where to research proposed High Seas Fleet allocationsQ&A
  104. Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)
    9:26What Soviet study of German surface raiders revealedChapter
  105. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    1:42:29Official and commercial reports disagree on the prizesNotable Point
  106. Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)
    52:20Primary-source limits shape Commonwealth coverageNotable Point
  107. Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine
    1:33:32How restricted evidence can guide publishable researchQ&A
  108. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    25:53Polybius and the politics of victory narrativesNotable Point
  109. Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...
    1:45:01A practical method for naval archive researchQ&A
  110. Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...
    2:35:23How to use biased naval memoirs as evidenceQ&A
  111. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    2:59:31How to handle unseen counterevidenceNotable Point
  112. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    44:47Are there English-language sources on Yonai?Q&A
  113. Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World
    1:29:03How to test myths about famous warshipsQ&A
  114. Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World
    2:26:31Why historical method matters beyond memorizing eventsNotable Point
  115. Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World
    3:34:07Reading the Harper and Bacon reports on JutlandNotable Point
  116. Some Sunday Naval Books
    13:29Fleet Air Arm operations and usable source notesChapter
  117. Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"
    2:15:51Why Commonwealth Tribal history required archival visitsNotable Point
  118. Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru
    3:19:54Why new archival work belongs in later book editionsNotable Point
  119. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)
    4:21:44What peer review should test in historical scholarshipQ&A
  120. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    1:51Choose evidence for a story, fact, question, or theoryNotable Point
  121. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    3:01Use a strong book to map the sourcesChapter
  122. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    6:47Follow journal citations to primary materialNotable Point
  123. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    1:29:46Which naval-history subjects are hardest to research?Q&A
  124. 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat
    1:04:25Bias is perspective, not automatically deceitQ&A
  125. 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat
    2:43:46Good historical translation preserves meaning, not only wordsQ&A
  126. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    2:58:32How to use a memoir written through another authorQ&A
  127. Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.
    3:34:40Undeclared confrontations leave a thinner literatureQ&A
  128. Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.
    3:49:12Trace a D-Day landing ship through operational recordsQ&A
  129. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai
    14:13Tracing a disputed strategic exchangeNotable Point
  130. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda
    6:07The sources behind Toyoda's historical recordNotable Point
  131. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda
    16:32Ralph Ofstie's postwar assessment of ToyodaNotable Point
  132. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:17:00A primary source can fit a narrative too neatlyNotable Point
  133. A Book or Two to Review (22): Roman Conquests - Britain
    6:05Questioning the appeal that brought Severus northNotable Point
  134. Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail
    2:23:20Churchill's own writings complicate heroic and villainous portraitsNotable Point
  135. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    23:15Using an Isonzo campaign history as a research starting pointChapter
  136. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    1:58:51Believe memoirs within limits, but never trust them aloneChapter
  137. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    2:03:51Why primary-source status does not settle cruiser performanceQ&A
  138. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P5/6 1916
    11:49Why the German order of battle remains uncertainNotable Point
  139. Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today
    16:35Why Guadeloupe's ship count may be three or fourNotable Point
  140. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    32:46Books for studying interwar treaty warshipsQ&A
  141. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 1/3 Sea Lion 1-Sea Lion 2
    2:31Reading Supermarine history through evidence and inferenceNotable Point
  142. Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations
    35:15An 1880 naval chronicle close to the age of sailChapter
  143. Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations
    1:19:48Documents behind the Anglo-German naval raceChapter
  144. Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations
    2:38:09Machiavelli, Cromwell, and Washington in their settingsChapter
  145. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered
    48:58Why primary sources still require interpretationQ&A
  146. Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books
    45:10Why naval-architect transactions matter as primary sourcesChapter
  147. Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books
    1:08:43Why later naval histories underuse professional transactionsQ&A
  148. Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books
    2:02:16Where to research British naval design recordsQ&A
  149. Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:14:15What interwar diplomatic dispatches could containNotable Point
  150. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:21:02How to weigh letters, memoirs, and official recordsQ&A
  151. 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    35:11Why later wars leave more officer memoirsNotable Point
  152. 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:30:05The missing memoirs of Admiral AllisonQ&A
  153. SASC Video 6: Non- Laboratory Research Methodologies Advanced…
    4:17Literature studies, systematic reviews, and primary researchNotable Point
  154. SASC Video 6: Non- Laboratory Research Methodologies Advanced…
    31:59Standardized interviews and verifiable transcriptsNotable Point
  155. Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A
    47:12Using naval fiction as historical contextQ&A
  156. Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video
    29:59The archive behind the Asama Maru incidentNotable Point
  157. Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video
    23:32Wartime accounts and biographies behind the River Plate historyChapter
  158. Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video
    1:41:30Reading the River Plate diplomatic recordNotable Point