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We are delighted to launch a new initiative to bring 'Naval Songs and Ballads' back to life!
'Volume 33 is a collection of ballads from the 14th to the mid-19th century. See its contents: buff.ly/A9O0kBt
#shantysingers #navalrecords #navyhistory #navyrecords #navalsongs
ALT Appeal calling for contributors to the Songs & Ballads of the Royal Navy project, seeking musicians, historians, and volunteers to help record traditional naval songs from the 1907 printed volume "Naval Songs and Ballads". The poster announces upcoming NRS YouTube releases and provides a contact email of onlineeditor@navyrecords.org.uk for involvement.
Take a look on our website to find our more about this volume: navyrecords.org.uk/naval-son…
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🔉 Now in stock 🔉
📖 Shipcraft 19 County Class Cruisers by Les Brown ⚓️
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Our Summer Event takes place tomorrow! Can't attend in person but want to listen to our speakers online? Find out how to join remotely on our website (no registration needed) navyrecords.org.uk/events/
#navalhistory #historyrecrods #navalrecords #historyconference #Historysociety
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🔉 Back in stock 🔉
📖 Battle in the Baltic by Steve R. Dunn
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⚓ Latest from the Mariner's Mirror Podcast!
Dr Sam Willis speaks with Paul Brown about his new book 'Secret Warriors, British Submarines in the Cold War'. Listen now: buff.ly/sRF4A4d
#historypodcast #coldwarhistory #submarines #RoyalNavy #seapower
📣 From our Online Magazine ...
This account from the Cely Papers details an inventory of a fifteenth-century merchant ship & shows little difference between a privately owned merchant ship & a Crown warship - buff.ly/NYjU29d
#navalhistory #medievalhistory #navyrecords
Next week we will hold our 2026 Summer Event and AGM at King's College London. We welcome members of the public to join us from 1730 onwards for talks by members, including this year's volume editor!
For more details, see: navyrecords.org.uk/events/
We are looking forward to our AGM & Summer event for 2026 - being hosted once again at KCL on the 1st July!
For more info visit: navyrecords.org.uk/events/
#navalhistory #NavyRecords #militaryhistory #warstudies #historysociety
Bill Broomfield crew of HMS Ramillies recounts the story of a Maori grass skirt presented to the ship’s captain in Wellington New Zealand 1940. The skirt was believed to bring good luck...
Read more: buff.ly/Y2ZL5yT
#WW2 #navalhistory #NRS #Historyonline #historymagazine
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Did you know that the first women to land on the Normandy beachhead in June 1944 were nurses of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service?
Their task was to establish a field hospital for 600 wounded soldiers.
They succeeded.
Please remember these heroines who saved lives:
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Hundreds of sailors paraded before Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal as @HMSSultan celebrated 70 years as the engineering heartbeat of the Naval Service. @RoyalFamily
Read more: royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/j…
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Today we remember the men and women involved in the great crusade and the largest amphibious operation in history.
Crew of @HMSDragon took time during operations in the Arabian Sea to pay a traditional flight deck tribute to all those involved in #DDay and Operation Neptune.
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#OnThisDay 82 yrs ago in 1944 #DDay Operation Neptune landed 156,000 Allied troops on 5 beaches in Normandy as part of the invasion of Europe. 6833 ships were used, including 5,300 warships and landing craft, 78% of which were British under @RoyalNavy & planned by Admiral Ramsay
📃 The NRS published rare and original documents on naval history. Each month, explore examples like this letter in our online magazine ...
🔗 Read it here: navyrecords.org.uk/magazine_…
#navalhistory #Nelson #trafalgar #navalrecords #historicletters #loveletters
Our 133rd AGM will take place on Wednesday 1st July 2026. It will be held as a hybrid meeting hosted at King’s College London
Members are invited to attend with an opportunity to give a short presentation - for more details visit: navyrecords.org.uk/events/
#navyrecords #NRS
📣 The latest from our Online Magazine: navyrecords.org.uk/magazine_…
#navalrecords #WW2 #Navalhistory #oralhistory #Newzealandhistory
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#OnThisDay 1982 HMS SHEFFIELD is hit by Argentine Exocet becoming the first @RoyalNavy ship lost in action since 1945. Though the missile did not detonate it started fires that killed 20 sailors. 260 were rescued by HMS ARROW. SHEFFIELD later sank under tow #remember
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USS Constitution by Anton Fischer
Her long career almost ended a month into the war of 1812, when she fell in with a Royal Navy squadron. She used her boats and ditched all her water to escape the British in a chase lasting two days and nights.
#USNavy #RoyalNavy #AgeofSail
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Happy to share that my Corbett Prize-winning essay is now available to read via advanced online publication in Historical Research here:
academic.oup.com/histres/adv…
