Focusing on the work and labour history of shipyard workers in the Royal Dockyards, this text examines the question of state employment and the specific charact

By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the seven home dockyards of the British Royal Navy employed a workforce of nearly 16,000 men and some women. On account of th

In contrast to the voluminous literature on trench warfare, few scholarly works have been written on how the First World War was experienced at sea. The conditi