Michael Lewis (historian)

Michael Arthur Lewis (born January 3, 1890 in Freeland (Oxfordshire) , † February 27, 1970 ) was a British naval historian and writer. He was a professor at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich .

Life

The son of a clergyman, he went to school in Uppingham and studied at Cambridge University (Trinity College). In 1912 he received his Bachelor's degree (followed in 1924 by an MA) and served in World War I as a lieutenant in the Royal Marines . He was then at the Royal Naval College in Osborne House (1913-1920), Dartmouth (from 1922) and from 1934 professor at the Greenwich as successor to Geoffrey Callender . In 1955 he retired. Among other things, he taught English and naval history.

In addition to books on naval history such as a social history of the navy in Nelson's time, he also published novels and poems.

From 1960 he was President of the Society for Nautical Research and from 1955 on the Technical Advisory Committee of HMS Victory . He was also on the council of the Navy Records Society. He was the presenter of a 26-part series on British television about naval warfare in World War II (Victory at Sea, 1952/53).

Fonts

• England's sea-officers: the story of the naval profession . London Allen & Unwin, 1939, 1948.
• British ships and British seamen . London: British Council, 1940; Reprinted as The ships and seamen of Britain . London and New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1946.
• The navy of Britain: a historical portrait . London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1948.
• Editor A narrative of my professional adventures (1790-1839) , by Sir William Henry Dillon , 2 volumes, Greenwich: Navy Records Society, 1953-1956.
• The history of the British navy . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.
• The Spanish Armada . London: BT Batsford, 1960; Pan, 1966; Crowell, 1968.
• Armada guns, a comparative study of English and Spanish armaments . London, Allen & Unwin, 1961.
• Napoleon and his British captives . London: Allen & Unwin, 1962.
• The Navy in transition, 1814-1864; a social history . London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1965.
• Ancestors; a personal exploration into the past . London, Hodder & Stoughton [1966].
• The Hawkins dynasty: three generations of a Tudor family . London, Allen & Unwin, 1969.
• Spithead ; to informal history . London, Allen & Unwin, 1972.
• Armed Forces and the Art of War: Navies in JPT Bury The Zenith of European Power, 1830-1870 , The New Cambridge Modern History , Volume 10, 1960.

Fiction

• Afloat & Ashore . London: Allen & Unwin, 1921 (poems)
• Beg o 'the Upland . Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1922.
• The Brand of the Beast . London: Allen & Unwin, 1924.
• Fleeting follies . London: Allen & Unwin, 1924 (poems)
• The island of disaster . London: Allen & Unwin, 1926.
• Roman gold . London: Allen & Unwin, 1927.
• The Three Amateurs . London: Houghton, 1929.
• The Crime of Herbert Wratislaus . London: Herbert Jenkins, 1931.

Web links

• Entry on Historic Naval Fiction