Navy Records Society
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Publishing British naval documents and history since 1893. Discover more: https://linktr.ee/navyrecords
We are delighted to launch a new initiative to bring 'Naval Songs and Ballads' back to life! The tunes are named, BUT the music is not printed. See its contents: buff.ly/A9O0kBt #shantysingers #navalrecords #navyhistory #navyrecords #seafarers #nauticalmusic #nauticalhistory #navalchoir #NRS
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) www.navyrecords.org.uk/events/ #navalhistory #historyrecrods #navalrecords #historyconference #Historysociety #historytalks
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📣 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. Read it here: buff.ly/NYjU29d #navalhistory #tudorhistory #medievalhistory #navyrecords
An Armed Merchant Ship from the Cely Papers c.1472 – The Navy Records Society
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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: www.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 details, please visit: www.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
The Māori grass skirt of HMS Ramillies: The Broomfield Tapes, Part 2. – The Navy Records Society
Bill Broomfield, a former crew member of HMS Ramillies, recounts the story of a Maori grass skirt presented to the ship’s captain in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1940. The skirt, believed to bring…
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📃 The NRS published rare and original documents on naval history. Each month, explore examples like this letter in our online magazine ... 🔗 Read it here: www.navyrecords.org.uk/magazine_pos... #navalhistory #Nelson #trafalgar #navalrecords #historicletters #loveletters
Our 133rd AGM will take place at 1600 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: www.navyrecords.org.uk/events/ #navyrecords #navalhistory
📣 The latest from our Online Magazine: www.navyrecords.org.uk/magazine_pos... #navalrecords #WW2 #Navalhistory #oralhistory #Newzealandhistory
The Māori grass skirt of HMS Ramillies: The Broomfield Tapes, Part 2. – The Navy Records Society
Bill Broomfield, a former crew member of HMS Ramillies, recounts the story of a Maori grass skirt presented to the ship’s captain in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1940. The skirt, believed to bring…
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This month, the Navy Records Society had the honour of welcoming their Patron, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, to a reception at The National Archives. @royalfamily.bsky.social @pbhellawell.bsky.social #NRS #TheNationalArchives #NavyRecords #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy
Our latest article introduces a fascinating letter written on 30 August 1914 by Stoker Thomas Victor Rayson of HMS Falmouth, offering a rare firsthand account of naval warfare at the outbreak of the First World War. Read it here: www.navyrecords.org.uk/magazine_pos... #navalhistory #history #WW1
🔱 #onthisday in 1917 HMS Achilles and SS Dundee fought the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Leopold, which sank with the loss of all hands Discover more about this action & paintings of it, visit our online magazine: buff.ly/aczgXwz #Onthisdayinhistory #WW1 #navalhistory #royalnavy
📣 The latest from our Online magazine: buff.ly/vaw8QAj This article introduces a letter written on 30 August 1914 by Stoker Thomas Victor Rayson of HMS Falmouth, offering a rare firsthand account of naval warfare at the outbreak of the First World War. #WW1 #navyhistory #royalnavy #maritimehistory
#OnthisDay in 1852, HMS Birkinhead sank near Cape Town, South Africa and gave rise to the naval tradition of "women and children first" in the event of wrecking. Image: Wiki Commons #navalhistory #onthisdayinhistory #victoriannvavy #royalnavy
Our latest online magazine article explores shipbuilding in the 9th to 11th centuries. Using evidence from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it challenges the idea that King Alfred the Great founded the English navy. 📃 Read now 🔗 : buff.ly/PIpN9ys #navalhistory #anglosaxon #militaryhistory #medieval #NRS
#Onthisday in 1939 the German warship Admiral Graf Spee was sunk after the Battle of the River Plate. Read more on the Navy Records Society's Online Magazine: www.navyrecords.org.uk/magazine_pos... Written by Marcus Faulkner #navalhistory #navyhistory #militaryhistory #ww2 #worldwar2 #OTD
‘It appears unfortunate to me…’ Squaring a circle in the Atlantic war of words – The Navy Records Society's Members Blog buff.ly/ywptAEf #navalhistory #militaryhistory #WW2 #royalnavy #history
‘It appears unfortunate to me…’ Squaring a circle in the Atlantic war of words – The Navy Records Society
A flurry of letters, minutes and memoranda between the C-in-C United States Fleet (COMINCH), Admiral Ernest J. King and Admiral Sir Percy Noble, head of the British Admiralty Delegation (BAD) and…
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Invasion or Annexation? How Heligoland became Britain’s smallest island possession. – The Navy Records Society's Members Blog buff.ly/J3Rejxj #navalhistory #militaryhistory #napoleonic #royalnavy #history
Invasion or Annexation? How Heligoland became Britain’s smallest island possession. – The Navy Records Society
In the early 1870s, a little-known engagement between a Royal Navy squadron of turret ironclads and a German invasion force bound for England ended in confusion and catastrophe for the invaders amid…
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#OnThis Day in 1941 HMS Ark Royal, Britain’s first modern fleet carrier, sank after a torpedo attack by the German submarine U-81. Read more on The Navy Records Society Members' Blog: www.navyrecords.org.uk/members_blog... #navyrecords #navalhistory #ww2 #royalnavy #OTD #hmsarkroyal
📚 New book by our member: The Dido Papers: the letters of A Victorian Midshipman by John Johnson-Allen HMS Dido went to West Africa, South and East Africa, the letters recount Bryan Godfrey Faussett's experiences as a young man between June 1879 - April 1881: buff.ly/vAtRZbs #newbook #navyhistory
Latest from the Navy Records Society's Online Magazine: The Diary of T.F. Richards Part 4: Christmas Island, Borneo, Sumatra and Singapore, 1907. By Jane Wickenden. Read it here: buff.ly/vY37PLS #navalhistory #navyrecords #history #hmskent #battleship #monmouthclass #asia #britishempire #royalnavy
The Diary of T.F. Richards Part 4: Christmas Island, Borneo, Sumatra and Singapore, 1907 – The Navy Records Society
These fascinating descriptive passages are transcribed extracts from the diaries of Thomas F. Richards who, in 1906, was a Royal Navy Artificer (Engineer) Warrant Officer aged 30. This is the third…
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⚓ Did you know the Navy Records Society has published over 170 annual volumes in print and online? 📚 Discover the full collection: buff.ly/xuKTHBk #navyrecords #navalhistory #navyhistory #NRS #history #research #royalnavy #trafalgar #hms #nelson #ww2 #tudor #ww2 #student #academic
Books – The Navy Records Society
The Navy Records Society publishes an annual volume in print and online. Each work presents previously unpublished documents on naval history, edited, introduced and given an analytical commentary by…
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📚 New book by our #NRS member Callum Easton's compelling first book, 'The 1797 Naval Mutinies and Popular Protest in Britain: Negotiation through Collective Action', has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #navyhistory#navalhistory #navalrecords #18thcentury
The 1797 Naval Mutinies and Popular Protest in Britain
This book offers a holistic re-evaluation of the Royal Navy mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797, and their significance for British society.
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The Battle of Trafalgar took place #OnThisDay in 1805 ⚓ Discover an Eyewitness Account of the battle by the Assistant-Surgeon of H.M.S Swiftsure – in The Navy Records Society's online magazine: buff.ly/iGWYEvn #Navyrecords #navalhistory #OTD #Trafalgar #nelson #Admiralty #historic
Trafalgar Eyewitness Account by the Assistant-Surgeon of H.M.S Swiftsure – The Navy Records Society
This letter by Robert Hilton appears to be a collaborative account of the engagements of Trafalgar, as a surgeon’s mate would have been below deck during the battle. Each of the surviving letters…
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📜 ⚓ Coming to Navy Records Online: The Broomfield Tapes The first transcript and discussion of this recording is now available to members: buff.ly/8oVs0hx 'Bill' Broomfield, a leading seaman aboard HMS Ramillies during #WW2 recorded his experience in 1987 - Alex Clarke reviews them for us
‘Blood even ran out of the voice pipe’: The Broomfield Tapes Part 1 – Hunting The Bismarck – The Navy Records Society
This post presents the first of three recordings from Bill W.E. Broomfield (known as Bill), a leading seaman aboard the battleship HMS Ramillies during the Second World War. The tapes were first…
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Last month, we commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War In our Members' Blog Neil Jackson looked at a letter from HMS Swiftsure, which describes the action taken to reclaim the prized colonial possession of Hong Kong: buff.ly/12OhTLE #VJDay #WW2 #navyhistory #Navyrecord
It is with great regret that the Society reports the death on October 12th of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Ben Bathurst (1936-2025), President of our Society between 1997 and 2014. www.navyrecords.org.uk/members_blog...
Sir Benjamin Bathurst: In Memoriam – The Navy Records Society
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⚓📜 Latest on the Navy Records Online Magazine: ‘Blood even ran out of the voice pipe’: The Broomfield Tapes Part 1 – Hunting The Bismarck – buff.ly/8oVs0hx Recordings from Bill W.E. Broomfield, seaman aboard HMS Ramillies, recounting the hunting of the Bismarck in May 1941 #WW2 #navyhistory #NRS
#OnThisDay in 1800: the Armed Cutter, Rose, became the first British ship to have been captured by the Dutch in the War of the Second Coalition #napoleonicwars whilst on a routine voyage. Read an original account of the incident on the #NRS Online Magazine: buff.ly/4ArE3LY #Navalhistory #OTD
