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Source Criticism

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  1. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:54:24Checking AI images in open-source naval intelligenceQ&A
  2. Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?
    2:07:28Using naval port-visit lists to find attributable sourcesNotable Point
  3. Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership
    0:00Why Raphael Semmes's writing matters to naval historyChapter
  4. Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership
    37:07Semmes's cruise memoir as evidence and political argumentChapter
  5. Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership
    40:54Bulloch's postwar politics as a source-criticism lessonNotable Point
  6. Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    36:57How Falklands reporting confused a flag captain with the commanderNotable Point
  7. Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    7:55Why historical knowledge remains a balance of probabilitiesNotable Point
  8. How many Warships does your Navy need?
    23:32Using Wikipedia's references to begin naval researchNotable Point
  9. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:45:12Using Wikipedia as a research starting pointNotable Point
  10. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:46:13Public military specifications and the limits of a discussion ruleNotable Point
  11. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:00:32Distinguishing operational analysis from expertise in domestic politicsNotable Point
  12. Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...
    1:46:28Why a visible fleet does not settle its organizationNotable Point
  13. Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...
    3:36:55Filling gaps without overriding the primary fictional sourceNotable Point
  14. Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...
    4:49:01How to use Wikipedia as a research starting pointNotable Point
  15. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    43:30Building a naval biography from personal evidenceQ&A
  16. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    1:22:38How to test racial assumptions as an explanation for MalayaNotable Point
  17. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    2:04:00Teaching imperial war history beyond the exam timetableQ&A
  18. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    8:48:11Independent replication and archive photographs test claimsNotable Point
  19. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    3:25:31Retired admirals and the source of anti-carrier quotationsQ&A
  20. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    3:38:32J-20 concepts, observable aircraft, and first-generation developmentQ&A
  21. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    6:45:29How one platoon becomes a brigade in historical memoryQ&A
  22. What happens if Japan persues Synthetic Fuels from 1930 onwards?
    2:28Reading Japan's strategic-bombing survey criticallyNotable Point
  23. The Real Life Captain Jack Sparrow: Peter Tordenskjold
    21:20Reading the orders behind the Dynekilen missionNotable Point
  24. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    32:33Why allied summaries could soften internal naval criticismNotable Point
  25. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    36:12Why Leyte Gulf dominates the Admiralty collectionNotable Point
  26. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:52:48A truthful Warhammer interview and the problem of perspectiveQ&A
  27. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:55:56Why interview the Emperor when his reasoning seems known?Q&A
  28. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:59:19Would a truthful Emperor still give a usable account?Q&A
  29. Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy
    44:09Conflicting records complicate Gorshkov's wartime biographyNotable Point
  30. Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy
    1:17:37How an official narrative sets the terms of debateNotable Point
  31. 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
  32. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:34:33Historical evidence without personal participationNotable Point
  33. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:42:34How short news formats limit specialist explanationsNotable Point
  34. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    7:00:28Why naval scrutiny depends on accurate briefingNotable Point
  35. Why Historians approach sources differently to Journalists
    0:00Why journalists can use anonymous sources but historians cannotQ&A
  36. Why Historians approach sources differently to Journalists
    1:33Anonymous newspaper sources turn historians into detectivesNotable Point
  37. Why do Historians always read the Source List first?
    0:00Primary sources reveal an argument's foundationChapter
  38. Why do Historians always read the Source List first?
    1:10Secondary accounts add another layer of analysisNotable Point
  39. Why do Historians always read the Source List first?
    1:52Ask who supplied the informationNotable Point
  40. 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
  41. Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?
    24:23Separating Hitler's rhetoric from operational intentNotable Point
  42. George of Antioch: The Scilian Admiral of Admirals who out foxed the Byzantines...
    3:18Dating George and reading medieval chronology cautiouslyNotable Point
  43. George of Antioch: The Scilian Admiral of Admirals who out foxed the Byzantines...
    20:11Conflicting dates and a medieval research trailNotable Point
  44. George of Antioch: The Scilian Admiral of Admirals who out foxed the Byzantines...
    39:28Preserving an archival research trailNotable Point
  45. George of Antioch: The Scilian Admiral of Admirals who out foxed the Byzantines...
    1:04:51Using Wikipedia as a route into deeper naval-history researchNotable Point
  46. Why Historians are careful with Personal Accounts of events... it's Perspective! #history
    0:00Personal accounts as remembered perspectivesChapter
  47. Why Historians are careful with Personal Accounts of events... it's Perspective! #history
    0:58A memoir can preserve evidence of an internal debateNotable Point
  48. Why Historians are careful with Personal Accounts of events... it's Perspective! #history
    1:27What a source's silence can revealChapter
  49. Why Historians are careful with Personal Accounts of events... it's Perspective! #history
    2:01A provable lie can illuminate guiltNotable Point
  50. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    21:51Reading participants' accounts against one anotherNotable Point
  51. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    1:28:18Reading Japanese planning documents as public positionsNotable Point
  52. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    2:06:41Memoir errors and accusations of dishonestyNotable Point
  53. Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    50:13What errors reveal about a historical sourceQ&A
  54. Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:17:19How to read Royal Navy reports and ship-speed claimsQ&A
  55. Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?
    8:40Rostislav's disputed displacement and shallow Baltic draughtNotable Point
  56. Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?
    29:40Rostislav captures Prince Gustav at HoglandChapter
  57. Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!
    38:23What the sources can and cannot show about hyeopseonNotable Point
  58. Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!
    1:00:58An accessible Imjin War overview still needs cautionNotable Point
  59. Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...
    39:02Altmark accounts show the limits of historical proofNotable Point
  60. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    49:55Scheer's memoir preserves his wartime pictureNotable Point
  61. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    1:13:39Grand Fleet standing orders explain the torpedo responseNotable Point
  62. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    1:26:30Wartime propaganda can still yield evidenceNotable Point
  63. Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...
    8:09Assessing claims that Houthi weapons hit US warshipsQ&A
  64. Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...
    58:52Treating hypersonic-defense claims skepticallyQ&A
  65. Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...
    1:01:27Why public defense claims demand cautionNotable Point
  66. Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!
    25:20Why autobiographies do not settle historical motivesNotable Point
  67. Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)
    30:29Why a disputed photograph of Jadar is withheldNotable Point
  68. Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates
    22:22How archival limits shape Commonwealth naval historyNotable Point
  69. Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes
    36:05Merchant mariners supplied experienced corvette commandersChapter
  70. 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
  71. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    2:31:35Why one naval archive document rarely settles an argumentNotable Point
  72. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    2:59:57How Scharnhorst's label shaped British carrier spendingNotable Point
  73. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    3:58:40Why a Free German Navy built around Bismarck is unlikelyQ&A
  74. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    4:42:30Was Hood considered unfit for battle in 1939?Q&A
  75. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    4:44:27How a case for improving Harriers became a case for retirementNotable Point
  76. Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings
    1:05:57A casualty threshold shapes the ten-day sampleNotable Point
  77. Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....
    19:54Alan Brooke, Churchill, and self-serving memoirsNotable Point
  78. Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....
    4:34:33Using AI cautiously in historical researchQ&A
  79. Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....
    4:39:21Watching a paper-ballot count without disrupting itNotable Point
  80. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    41:12Why public carrier specifications are the responsible baselineNotable Point
  81. Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier
    45:03The alleged sinking of Invincible fails a practical source testNotable Point
  82. Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier
    1:25:39Public-source boundaries limit modern warship comparisonsNotable Point
  83. Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:34:18Independent research and borrowed conclusionsNotable Point
  84. Swedish 1930s Torpedo Bomber Strategy: Key Aircraft Series 7, Aircraft 7 & ScandiShip24 Montage
    27:30The shipboard illumination-rocket puzzleNotable Point
  85. Ilyushin DB-3 & Il-4: Great Patriotic War Soviet Torpedo Bombers - Key Aircraft Series 2,
    34:37Operational scale is clearer than individual mission historyChapter
  86. Ilyushin DB-3 & Il-4: Great Patriotic War Soviet Torpedo Bombers - Key Aircraft Series 2,
    36:22Perfect attack narratives invite source criticismNotable Point
  87. Ilyushin DB-3 & Il-4: Great Patriotic War Soviet Torpedo Bombers - Key Aircraft Series 2,
    37:30Impossible sea-state stories raise a different warningNotable Point
  88. Ilyushin DB-3 & Il-4: Great Patriotic War Soviet Torpedo Bombers - Key Aircraft Series 2,
    38:12Good translations expose literal and contextual choicesChapter
  89. Ilyushin DB-3 & Il-4: Great Patriotic War Soviet Torpedo Bombers - Key Aircraft Series 2,
    40:01The DB-3 record has a 1939 Japanese gapChapter
  90. Ilyushin DB-3 & Il-4: Great Patriotic War Soviet Torpedo Bombers - Key Aircraft Series 2,
    43:20Authoritarian readiness claims create a source dilemmaNotable Point
  91. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    36:43Reading Chinese missile-factory production claimsQ&A
  92. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    40:32The uncertain drydock origin of a U-boat bunkerQ&A
  93. Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote
    2:24:11Reading official procurement reasons criticallyNotable Point
  94. What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!
    22:01The Douglas DT highlights source loss and aircraft preservationNotable Point
  95. The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier
    1:22:20Using Wikipedia as a lead rather than a sourceNotable Point
  96. Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI
    2:31:34How to assess claims about the Romanov daughtersNotable Point
  97. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    2:41:10Roskill's source base leaves a gap around naval constructionNotable Point
  98. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    2:54:51How to read Roskill on interwar naval policyQ&A
  99. Twelve Odd Ships
    28:30Veteran fiction can guide research without proving a claimNotable Point
  100. Twelve Odd Ships
    58:50Flags and rigging expose a misleading Seeadler illustrationNotable Point
  101. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    4:18:10Neutral questions elicit better historical evidenceNotable Point
  102. Supermarine Scimitar: A Midfielder before Midfielders were cool - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 4
    10:07Scimitar performance figures and conflicting recordsChapter
  103. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    12:59Churchill's battlecruiser label had a budgetary useChapter
  104. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    25:01How a historian keeps warship comparisons consistentNotable Point
  105. 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
  106. Naval Historian Reacts to Four Random Books 30 - Courage
    17:34Courage anthologies can hide the Royal Navy's Falklands roleChapter
  107. Naval Historian Reacts to Four Random Books 30 - Courage
    44:14Dramatic chapter titles can frame solid Falklands testimonyNotable Point
  108. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    1:02:36HMS Glorious and the cost of ignoring carrier doctrineQ&A
  109. HMDS Danmark: KSS1 S2 Comment Response
    10:58Personal expertise versus invented institutional authorityQ&A
  110. Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back
    9:19A repeated Dove quotation points in the wrong directionNotable Point
  111. Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 2
    52:16What Royal Navy paperwork reveals - and concealsNotable Point
  112. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    3:08:15Public-source discipline when studying modern weaponsNotable Point
  113. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    3:23:31Testing a sealift claim against route geographyNotable Point
  114. Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?
    1:19:32Finding historical sources through Wikipedia referencesNotable Point
  115. Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?
    1:38:33How to use Combined Fleet as a historical sourceQ&A
  116. Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)
    0:40Empress Augusta Bay and the officers who shaped the postwar navyChapter
  117. Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)
    29:16Burke learned from delay, but his nickname has competing explanationsNotable Point
  118. Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)
    40:00Omori's retreat reflected the balance of force at nightNotable Point
  119. Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)
    1:10:24Japanese losses bought no disruption of the landingChapter
  120. Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases
    1:57:28Readable naval history still needs visible sourcesNotable Point
  121. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    3:31Why bigger naval guns were not automatically betterNotable Point
  122. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    53:03The uncertain names of the G3 and N3 classesNotable Point
  123. A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)
    12:31Editorial continuity as a comparative advantageNotable Point
  124. A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)
    26:23Exercise names and archival cross-checkingNotable Point
  125. A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)
    39:09How open-source naval information circulated during warNotable Point
  126. A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)
    48:32Choosing between Brassey's and Jane'sChapter
  127. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs
    1:34:49G-5 speed depended on relentless corrosion controlChapter
  128. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    50:48Why no naval source is reliable by reputation aloneQ&A
  129. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:36:13Why torpedo counts can misjudge the Tribal classNotable Point
  130. Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!
    47:16Why an impressive title does not make a quote representativeQ&A
  131. Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada
    20:13Researching Chilean history across language boundariesNotable Point
  132. Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 1980
    14:11When archival access is not permission to publishNotable Point
  133. Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 1980
    16:06Why detailed intelligence analysis is outside the scenarioQ&A
  134. Navigation: From Coastal Tracking to Satelite Navigation
    8:24Source criticism complicates simple portraits of statesNotable Point
  135. Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword
    18:51Separating Egyptology debates from conspiracy claimsQ&A
  136. Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword
    26:38Soviet monitoring as evidence for the Moon landingsQ&A
  137. Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!
    13:26The scale of steam-rate adoption across the major naviesChapter
  138. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    3:00:52Stalin's rehearsed speeches and hierarchy of public praiseChapter
  139. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    3:07:12Strong-ruler imagery and the politics of a later accountNotable Point
  140. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    3:32:18An exaggerated Condor bomb load in wartime intelligenceNotable Point
  141. SASC 9: Critical Literature Review
    1:12Source reliability and why citations matterChapter
  142. SASC 9: Critical Literature Review
    5:48Use corroboration to find consensus and outliersChapter
  143. SASC 9: Critical Literature Review
    12:32What a critical literature review demonstratesChapter
  144. SASC 9: Critical Literature Review
    16:14Compare source types by reliability and currencyNotable Point
  145. USS Wichita: Comment Response
    6:17Hood torpedo evidence and source languageQ&A
  146. Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    1:12:54A provisional Flower-class submarine boarding storyNotable Point
  147. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    44:25Current naval history requires a different evidence styleQ&A
  148. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    1:15:39Caesar's final-reserve charges joined command practice to political imageNotable Point
  149. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    1:44:17A British Midway account changes source type with the questionChapter
  150. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    1:53:30An official history is primary evidence for the institution that wrote itQ&A
  151. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    2:50:25Nelson and Rodney were treaty products, not pre-treaty survivorsNotable Point
  152. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    12:25Why modern-warship analysis stays with public sourcesNotable Point
  153. Admiral Hipper Class
    0:09Reading German warship reputations criticallyNotable Point
  154. Sverdlov Class: Comment Response
    53:11Assessing the Russian-warship theory of MH370Q&A
  155. Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)
    42:23Naval history as continuing source workNotable Point
  156. Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books
    0:43Testing the Butler-Johnson Cuban bus storyQ&A
  157. Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books
    11:24A fabricated First World War thesis as a source warningQ&A
  158. Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books
    15:32Did Togo claim to be Nelson reincarnated?Q&A
  159. BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)
    1:05:27Lost upload footage obscured the BC-304 source caveatQ&A
  160. BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)
    1:12:22The original visual-effects model anchors an uncertain ship lengthQ&A
  161. Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?
    46:14The French squadron and the problem of partisan sourcesNotable Point
  162. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video
    1:31:36What French sources reveal about the Battle of SluysQ&A
  163. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    51:08Ottoman flags reveal a source-criticism trapNotable Point
  164. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    1:00:53Why do Navarino paintings show the later Ottoman flag?Q&A
  165. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    1:38:47Why is HMS Hind's commander uncertain?Q&A
  166. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 64
    1:20:34Abruzzi displacement figures and visible mistake learningNotable Point
  167. Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina
    37:37Data and bias shape naval-history judgmentsNotable Point
  168. Battle of Arausio (105BC): Rome's Second Great Loss & the Reforms it Led to
    7:03Testing the Roman story against the command structureChapter
  169. Battle of Arausio (105BC): Rome's Second Great Loss & the Reforms it Led to
    50:01How nineteenth-century assumptions reshape the migrant armyNotable Point
  170. Battle of Arausio (105BC), lessons of an Ancient Land Battle…
    11:42Reading the Roman account against its biasChapter
  171. Battle of Arausio (105BC), lessons of an Ancient Land Battle…
    49:38Does a lack of records mean an uncivilized society?Q&A
  172. Battle of Arausio (105BC), lessons of an Ancient Land Battle…
    1:11:36Mommsen and the stereotype of the barbarian hordeChapter
  173. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    2:12:24Selective sensor footage can conceal grounds for doubtNotable Point
  174. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    3:06:43Kiev loss estimates require cautionQ&A
  175. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    3:11:57Kiev casualty totals depend on which campaign is countedNotable Point
  176. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    3:13:06Soviet tank totals depend on reporting and repair categoriesQ&A
  177. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    3:16:18Assumptions about readers shape a historian's choice of examplesNotable Point
  178. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)
    38:10Pacocha and the difference between survival and victoryQ&A
  179. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 3
    26:20Where to find an accurate plan of HMS AchillesQ&A
  180. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 3
    28:35How contemporary battle reports shaped warship designQ&A
  181. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 3
    1:03:49Finding usable histories of the Soviet Navy at warQ&A
  182. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 3
    2:34:04Reading claims about sanctions on RussiaQ&A
  183. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-42
    30:01Finding English-language sources on the Norwegian NavyQ&A
  184. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out
    1:35:52Test a source against a subject you knowNotable Point
  185. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    1:26:08The 'Message to Garcia' myth and the real liaison missionNotable Point
  186. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    33:08Why historical conclusions remain open to revisionNotable Point
  187. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    2:32:34Why an unofficial Union Pacific 844 speed claim needs evidenceQ&A
  188. Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare
    1:22:19Historians are trained to test biased sourcesNotable Point
  189. French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)
    1:14:47How naval historians build and debate interpretationsNotable Point
  190. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    1:42:29Official and commercial reports disagree on the prizesNotable Point
  191. 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
  192. Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...
    17:05How national memory reshapes medieval and 1812 warsQ&A
  193. Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...
    2:20:26How to read wartime propaganda criticallyQ&A
  194. Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...
    2:38:57Why balanced war histories take longer than twenty yearsQ&A
  195. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    21:27Rome's navy before its wartime expansionNotable Point
  196. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    25:53Polybius and the politics of victory narrativesNotable Point
  197. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    45:31Regulus after Ecnomus and a contested death traditionNotable Point
  198. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    51:21Polybius on constitution, evidence, and fortuneNotable Point
  199. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    1:13:19Reconstructing Ecnomus from fragmentary evidenceNotable Point
  200. 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)
    39:14Soviet destroyers as coalition observersNotable Point
  201. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    2:58:58How historians test claimed military capabilityQ&A
  202. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    3:09:49How to avoid hindsight in naval historyQ&A
  203. The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)
    39:57Why a later painting is a weak sourceNotable Point
  204. The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu
    2:17:40How were grenades thrown at Diu?Q&A
  205. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    34:27An apocryphal shipyard boast becomes a source-criticism lessonNotable Point
  206. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    2:09:52Was the Tsingtao Incident ship carrying weapons?Q&A
  207. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    3:04:20Pig Wars, Cow Wars, and the Emu WarNotable Point
  208. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    2:33:54Testing political and media narrativesNotable Point
  209. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    1:29:46Which naval-history subjects are hardest to research?Q&A
  210. Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...
    3:09:13Why treat the F-35 intake-cover story cautiously?Q&A
  211. Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary
    1:04:49Why the Latécoère PL.7 and Swordfish resist comparisonQ&A
  212. Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary
    2:59:19What Italian ammunition figures reveal about the defenceNotable Point
  213. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    1:30:38Turner's Trafalgar painting and the battle after Nelson fellNotable Point
  214. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)
    2:50:25How to read a partisan or unreliable historianQ&A
  215. Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol
    26:19How obscure references reconstructed the English fleetNotable Point
  216. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai
    14:13Tracing a disputed strategic exchangeNotable Point
  217. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:17:00A primary source can fit a narrative too neatlyNotable Point
  218. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)
    1:42:14Testing claims about Soviet funding of civil rightsNotable Point
  219. Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s
    1:01:36Did capital-ship underwater torpedo tubes work?Q&A
  220. Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s
    3:05:33A wartime myth about Greek merchant shipsQ&A
  221. A Book or Two to Review (4): In the Name of Rome
    13:41Persian cataphracts and Immortals bring numerical weightNotable Point
  222. Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)
    1:50:14Churchill and George VI cancel out a D-Day gestureNotable Point
  223. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    3:32:37Source-checking the converted-shell story at Pearl HarborQ&A
  224. Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies
    2:15:30A photograph cannot settle Korean allegiancesNotable Point
  225. Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans
    1:54:17Uncertain sourcing for Ersatz Monarch's gunsQ&A
  226. Four Random Books 29: Weapons of War
    3:34A prolific historian's source base shapes recurring emphasisNotable Point
  227. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA
    4:19A polished Hopkins-Churchill story becomes a lesson in source criticismNotable Point
  228. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA
    10:02Hopkins becomes Roosevelt's personal channel to ChurchillNotable Point
  229. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    2:46:01A caution about using The Audit of WarQ&A
  230. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    1:58:51Believe memoirs within limits, but never trust them aloneChapter
  231. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    2:03:51Why primary-source status does not settle cruiser performanceQ&A
  232. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    3:03:04How including other RAF commands changes a loss comparisonNotable Point
  233. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    3:06:46Fighter numbers and combat experience in a disputed Battle of Britain argumentNotable Point
  234. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    3:10:36Two pilots can honestly claim the same aircraftNotable Point
  235. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    4:07:22Reevaluation is useful; cherry-picked history is notQ&A
  236. 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
  237. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 1/3 Sea Lion 1-Sea Lion 2
    24:44Use Wikipedia as a map to citable sourcesNotable Point
  238. For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy
    0:47Norman Friedman's books as Royal Navy design referencesChapter
  239. Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships
    28:39Correcting Astraea's machinery from turbine to triple expansionNotable Point
  240. Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War
    9:27An unidentified royal photograph tests ship attributionNotable Point
  241. Town Class; big impact with a light footprint
    1:10:03Use Wikipedia to find sources, not as the sourceNotable Point
  242. The Fairey Story Anew...
    10:42Opened government records revise aviation historyNotable Point
  243. The Fairey Story Anew...
    2:25:49Which engine was the Rolls-Royce H.10?Q&A
  244. The Fairey Story Anew...
    2:46:12Was the Bismarck-strike Swordfish built by Fairey or Blackburn?Q&A
  245. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond
    40:50John Opie's destroyer career reaches a documentary gapNotable Point
  246. Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk
    4:20Using selected eyewitness voices as historical evidenceNotable Point
  247. Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk
    11:22Correcting the Royal Navy's 1940 destroyer distributionNotable Point
  248. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    1:13:47How investigators identified Formidable's one-ton bombNotable Point
  249. Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:14:23Gorshkov's global-presence strategyQ&A
  250. Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:34:33How poll wording can manufacture agreementNotable Point
  251. Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:11:51Historical context without moral absolutionNotable Point
  252. SASC Video 6: Non- Laboratory Research Methodologies Advanced…
    13:42Building a balanced literature study across source typesChapter
  253. SASC Video 6: Non- Laboratory Research Methodologies Advanced…
    15:25Testing provenance, results, and conclusionsNotable Point
  254. Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 2
    13:55Using Wikipedia as a gateway to naval-history sourcesNotable Point
  255. Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video
    23:32Wartime accounts and biographies behind the River Plate historyChapter
  256. Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video
    1:41:30Reading the River Plate diplomatic recordNotable Point