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For a cold February, this month’s featured article looks at the early efforts at sledge travel by the Royal Navy’s Arctic explorers, like Lieutenant William Parry, in the first half of the 19th Century.

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Historic Ships

The Society for Nautical Research played a leading role in the preservation of HMS Victory and other historic vessels.

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Call for Papers: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2019

February 2019

Maritime histories have always told stories about power. Whether in the form of narratives about mastery of the seas, conquest of lands, or enslavement of peoples, traditional accounts of enterprising explorers and hardy mariners have located power and agency with a limited groups of actors: almost always male, and predominantly European. In doing so, histories […] Read More

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Maritime Art

The Society for Nautical Research helps to purchase important works of art.