Dawlish Chronicles

Adventure, Scientific Endeavour and Cutting Edge Technology in Antarctica Technology, old or new, fascinates me and indeed the cutting-...

This week's blog entry is more on a  military  than a nautical  theme  but it reflects my  continuing   fascination   with  all aspect...

In an earlier blog I wrote about the now-forgotten disaster on the Thames in September 1878 when the excursion paddle steamer Princess Ali...

HMS Hero and her sister, HMS Conqueror, both commissioned in the late 1880s, were described by Dr.Oscar Parkes, the ultimate authority on ...

Some musings on a historical period that fascinates me, the latter half of the 19 th Century, "the day before yesterday" in hist...

In 1851 the English historian and jurist Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy  published  his  “ Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World ” . A different...

An Aid to Plotting: Maps and Thumbnails Both the world I write about - that of the Late Victorian Era -  I tend to take maps as a startin...