I am delighted to announce that I will be talking on Saturday 16 March at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. The venue is Christ Church and I will be starting at six pm blunt. I will be talking about my new book, ‘In the Hour of Victory’ and the extraordinary collection of naval dispatches [...]
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British Library Dispatches
January 29, 2013 – 12:14 pm
My latest book, In The Hour of Victory, is about an amazing collection of naval dispatches that only a handful of people know exist. In 1821 the Lords of the Admiralty ordered that the battle dispatches from the major British naval victories of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars should be gathered together and presented [...]
BBC Radio 4 Making History
January 15, 2013 – 4:14 pm
The episode of Making History in which I discuss the London Naval Conference of 1930 is broadcast today, 15 January. You will soon be able to hear it again on the BBCiPlayer.
In The Hour of Victory
January 6, 2013 – 8:43 pm
The time is nearly upon us! My new book, ‘In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson’ is out in February and you can hear all about it on 1 February at the British Library or on 21 February at the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth. It’s a [...]
Glorious First of June wins 2012 Anderson Medal
December 12, 2012 – 1:58 pm
I am delighted to announce that The Glorious First of June, the third volume of my Hearts of Oak Trilogy has been awarded the Anderson Medal by the Society for Nautical Research. I very much look forward to receiving the award at an event to be held at the National Maritime Museum.
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