Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist

A couple of British Pathe movies, the first from 1949 and the second from 1965, showing the manufacturing process at William Britain's f...

...that there's still time to enter the 200K Giveaway and get a chance to win some splendid prizes (not least from Diplomatist Books )! ...

In the past I have taken part in a couple of Zooniverse projects (one was transcribing naval logs from the First World War, the other was i...

Do you remember me writing about Stoker John Jones , who was seriously injured at the Battle of Jutland while serving on HMS Broke ?

Eagerly awaiting the next blog entry... Some time on Monday the Blogger clock that counts completely spurious hits went past the 200,00...

Since writing my post on the British officer reporting a 'sticky' situation to his American superior it has become quite clear that...

Last night my butterfly approach to wargaming took another turn. Inspired by a series of posts Bob Cordery has made - particularly this o...

That old salt GaryA responded to my Korean War story with a dit of his own.  It was an excellent example of the dry humour the RN uses in c...

Like most blog writers I enjoy getting feedback from my readers.  In yesterday's book review I said that the lack of notes and proper s...

Thom Burnett,  Who Really Won the Space Race?   Conspiracy Books (2005) The first thing to say about this book is that it's not som...

As I'm sure most of my readers will know, this week has seen the centenary of the Battle of Jutland.  Much has been written and will be...

Gor, it's been a long time since the last Dr Who Wednesday!  To look at DrWWeds #10 you have to go back to March! I'd love, if...

I mentioned yesterday that we'd been without Internet access for most of the Bank Holiday Weekend.  I didn't mean to suggest tha...