Don Leggett
Biographic Data
| ID | 2531148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don Leggett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don |
| FAMILY NAME | Leggett |
| SIGNATURE | LEGGETT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Restoring Victory: Naval Heritage, Identity, and Memory in Interwar Britain
In the decade following 1918, HMS Victory was restored as a memorial to the nation, empire, the Navy, and all the sailors who had lost their lives in the Great War. This piece of Britain's naval heritage became a focal point for Great War memory and a resource for narrating the Navy's place in post-war Britain. This article analyses the restoration campaign, focusing on its appeal work and the materials it produced, discourses surrounding the res…
The Dreadnought and the Edwardian age
Naval architecture, expertise and navigating authority in the British Admiralty, c .1885–1906
Naval architecture and the ship design process provide useful windows into the cultures of authority and expertise at the British Admiralty. Naval architecture was a complex field of theory and practice that underwent a number of changes in the nineteenth century, from the technical to the professional. It was also a highly contested and controversial subject, in which practitioners from the naval service to civilian engineering sought authority.…
Introduction: Expertise and authority in the Royal Navy, 1800–1945
The history of British sea power has too often been written as the history of officers and sailors. Yet maintaining and extending command of the sea involved many more groups of people inside the R
William Froude, John Henry Newman and Scientific Practice in the Culture of Victorian Doubt
This article explores the relationship between scientific practice and doubt in Victorian Britain. When compared to the rich historiography of Victorian science and religion, our current image of science and doubt is strikingly monolithic and limiting. Science is treated largely as a stimulus to narratives of doubt, for example, in the form of geology and evolution. This study, focused on the mathematician and mechanic William Froude and his clos…
Replication, re-placing and naval science in comparative context, c .1868–1904
The test tank broadly embodied the late nineteenth-century endeavour to ‘use science’ in industry, but the meaning given to the tank differed depending on the experienced communities that made it part of their experimental and engineering practices. This paper explores the local politics surrounding three tanks: William Froude's test tank located on his private estate in Torquay (1870), the Denny tank in Dumbarton (1884) and the University of Mic…
A floating commonwealth: Politics, culture, and technology on Britain's Atlantic coast, 1860–1930
A floating commonwealth: politics, culture, and technology on Britain's Atlantic coast, 1860–1930, by Christopher Harvie, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, xii + 319 pp., £74.00 (hardback), IS
Navy, nation and identity in the long nineteenth century
Naval historiography has significantly changed over the past 40 years. The latest work by social and cultural historians provides innovative and challenging accounts of the navy in relation to existing scholarship and British history more broadly. This vitality is particularly evident in scholarship that examines Britain's relationship with the Royal Navy. This review essay explores the latest contributions to this historiography and its implicat…
Spectacle and Witnessing: Constructing Readings of Charles Parsons's Marine Turbine
In 1897 the British Admiralty transformed Spithead and the river Solent, which runs alongside the maritime town of Portsmouth, into a theater where popular naval culture and technology met. The 1897 naval review celebrated Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee, but also had significance as the occasion of the first public display of Charles Parsons’s Turbinia, an experimental vessel thirty-two meters long and approximately the size of a torpedo-boat d…
Navy, nation and identity in the long nineteenth century
Naval historiography has significantly changed over the past 40 years. The latest work by social and cultural historians provides innovative and challenging accounts of the navy in relation to existing scholarship and British history more broadly. This vitality is particularly evident in scholarship that examines Britain's relationship with the Royal Navy. This review essay explores the latest contributions to this historiography and its implicat…
Navy, nation and identity in the long nineteenth century
Naval historiography has significantly changed over the past 40 years. The latest work by social and cultural historians provides innovative and challenging accounts of the navy in relation to existing scholarship and British history more broadly. This vitality is particularly evident in scholarship that examines Britain's relationship with the Royal Navy. This review essay explores the latest contributions to this historiography and its implicat…
Spectacle and Witnessing: Constructing Readings of Charles Parsons's Marine Turbine
In 1897 the British Admiralty transformed Spithead and the river Solent, which runs alongside the maritime town of Portsmouth, into a theater where popular naval culture and technology met. The 1897 naval review celebrated Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee, but also had significance as the occasion of the first public display of Charles Parsons’s Turbinia, an experimental vessel thirty-two meters long and approximately the size of a torpedo-boat d…
A floating commonwealth: Politics, culture, and technology on Britain's Atlantic coast, 1860–1930
A floating commonwealth: politics, culture, and technology on Britain's Atlantic coast, 1860–1930, by Christopher Harvie, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, xii + 319 pp., £74.00 (hardback), IS
William Froude, John Henry Newman and Scientific Practice in the Culture of Victorian Doubt
This article explores the relationship between scientific practice and doubt in Victorian Britain. When compared to the rich historiography of Victorian science and religion, our current image of science and doubt is strikingly monolithic and limiting. Science is treated largely as a stimulus to narratives of doubt, for example, in the form of geology and evolution. This study, focused on the mathematician and mechanic William Froude and his clos…
Replication, re-placing and naval science in comparative context, c .1868–1904
The test tank broadly embodied the late nineteenth-century endeavour to ‘use science’ in industry, but the meaning given to the tank differed depending on the experienced communities that made it part of their experimental and engineering practices. This paper explores the local politics surrounding three tanks: William Froude's test tank located on his private estate in Torquay (1870), the Denny tank in Dumbarton (1884) and the University of Mic…
Naval architecture, expertise and navigating authority in the British Admiralty, c .1885–1906
Naval architecture and the ship design process provide useful windows into the cultures of authority and expertise at the British Admiralty. Naval architecture was a complex field of theory and practice that underwent a number of changes in the nineteenth century, from the technical to the professional. It was also a highly contested and controversial subject, in which practitioners from the naval service to civilian engineering sought authority.…
Introduction: Expertise and authority in the Royal Navy, 1800–1945
The history of British sea power has too often been written as the history of officers and sailors. Yet maintaining and extending command of the sea involved many more groups of people inside the R
The Dreadnought and the Edwardian age
Restoring Victory: Naval Heritage, Identity, and Memory in Interwar Britain
In the decade following 1918, HMS Victory was restored as a memorial to the nation, empire, the Navy, and all the sailors who had lost their lives in the Great War. This piece of Britain's naval heritage became a focal point for Great War memory and a resource for narrating the Navy's place in post-war Britain. This article analyses the restoration campaign, focusing on its appeal work and the materials it produced, discourses surrounding the res…
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