Nicholas Rodger

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Nicholas Rodger

Nicholas Andrew Martin Rodger , mostly cited by NAM Rodger, (born November 12, 1949 ) is a British naval historian.

Rodger is the son of a naval officer and studied at Oxford University (University College (Oxford) | University College), where he received his doctorate in 1974 ( Naval policy and cruiser design, 1865-1890 ). From 1974 to 1991 he was an archivist (Assistant Keeper) at the Public Record Office . From 1991 to 1999 he was Anderson Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (London) and wrote a two-volume British naval history during this time, also supported by the Navy Records Society and the Society for Nautical Research . From 1999 he was a lecturer and later professor of naval history at theUniversity of Exeter . From 2008 he was a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College , Oxford. In 2010 he gave the Lees Knowles Lecture at the University of Cambridge .

In 1984 he received the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History , for Stragglers and Deserters from the Royal Navy during the Seven Years War. In 2003 he became a Fellow of the British Academy (2005) and he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London . In 2005 he received the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature .

From 1976 to 1990 he was Honorary Secretary of the Navy Records Society and was one of the editors of their centenary publication.

He wrote a three-volume story of the Royal Navy , of which two volumes were published by 2013.

Fonts

  • The Admiralty , Lavenham: T. Dalton 1979
  • Articles of War: the Statutes which Governed Our Fighting Navies, 1661, 1749, and 1886 , Homewell, Havant, Hampshire: K. Mason 1982
  • Editor, The Naval Miscellany , Volume 5, Navy Records Society 1983
  • The Wooden World: an Anatomy of the Georgian Navy , Annapolis: Naval Institute Press 1986
  • Naval Records for Genealogists , HMSO 1984, 1988, 1998
  • The Armada in the Public Records , Her Majesty's Stationary Office (HMSO), London 1988
  • Editor with GJA Raven, MCJ van Drunen: Navies and Armies: the Anglo-Dutch relationship in War and Peace 1688-1988 , Edinburgh, J. Donald Pub. 1990
  • The Insatiable Earl: a Life of John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1718-1792 , Harper Collins 1993
  • Editor with John Hattendorf , RJB Knight , AWH Pearsall , Geoffrey Till , (Captain) AB Sainsbury: British Naval Documents 1204-1960 , Navy Records Society, 1993
  • Published by Naval Power in the Twentieth Century , Annapolis: Naval Institute Press 1996
  • The Safeguard of the Sea: a Naval History of Britain, Volume 1, 660-1649 , Norton 1997
  • The Command of the Ocean: a Naval History of Britain, Volume 2, 1649-1815 , Norton 2004
  • Editor with Randolph Cock: A Guide to the Naval Records in the National Archives of the UK , London, National Archives 2006
  • Essays in Naval History, from Medieval to Modern , Ashgate 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 57, 1984, pp. 56-79
personal data
SURNAME Rodger, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodger, Nicholas Andrew Martin (full name); Rodger, NAM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British naval historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1949