Towards the end of the 18th century the attention of mapmakers, explorers and travellers turned t...

After two years at the Britannia Naval College at Dartmouth, Bryan Godfrey Faussett joined his fi...

Within the City of Edinburgh, there are many miles of “dismantled railway” that have been transfo...

In June of 1837, as a teenaged Queen Victoria assumed the throne, an Irish Catholic peasant labou...

Truk Lagoon is quite simply the greatest wreck diving location in the world. Scores of virtually ...

Diplomatic Protocol explores the etiquette of diplomacy, without which all efforts to negotiate w...

Although merchant ships carry 90% of the world’s trade, the mariners who run them have little gui...

Lighthouses have been used as aids to maritime navigation for centuries. They are highly recognis...

This is the story of lightkeepers’ contributions to the natural history of lighthouses in conjunc...

The Eponym Dictionary of Odonata is a comprehensive listing of all people after whom damselflies ...

Considers a number of issues affecting ungulates and their management in different parts of Europ...

Mike Tomkies gives a remarkable picture of the whole cycle of nature around him, in a harsh and t...