Dr James Davey
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PhD (Greenwich) BA (London) AKC (London) M.St (Oxford)
Visiting Lecturer
James Davey is the Research Curator at the National Maritime Museum and a Visiting Lecturer at the Greenwich Maritime Institute. He was initially appointed at the University of Greenwich in 2006, after completing a BA in War Studies at King’s College London and a Master of Studies in Modern History at Oxford University. For three years he was Research Assistant on the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘War, the Navy, and the Contractor State, 1793-1815’. He has also held a Caird Research Fellowship from the National Maritime Museum.
He recently completed a Ph.D thesis on a subject closely related to the project, which analysed the logistical issues involved in supplying a fleet in a hostile environment, and assessed the consequences for operational effectiveness, strategy and diplomacy. It measured the efficiency of various governmental boards, making judgements on the reforming instincts of the British state at the beginning of the 19th century. It will be published in 2012 as Transforming British Naval Strategy: Seapower and Supply in Northern Europe 1808-1812.
Aside from this, James is also interested in Britain’s political and economic relationship with the Baltic region, naval balladry, the navy’s role in creating British national identity, caricature and graphic satire, the influence of sea power on land based operations, and the development of the British state.
Select Publications
Books Transforming British Naval Strategy: Seapower and Supply in the Northern Europe, 1808-1812 (Boydell and Brewer, 2012)
Broadsides: Caricature and the Navy, 1756-1815 (with Richard Johns), forthcoming.
Admiral Sir James Saumarez: The Private Correspondence, ed. (with Tim Voelcker) Navy Records Society, 2014)
Articles and book chapters ‘Within Hostile Shores: Victualling the Royal Navy in European Waters during the Napoleonic Wars’, The International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 21 No. 2 (December 2009)
‘The Repatriation of Spanish soldiers from Denmark, 1808: The British Government, Logistics and Maritime Supremacy’, The Journal of Military History, Vol.74, No.3, (July 2010)
‘Nelson’s Second: Admiral Sir James Saumarez in the Mediterranean 1797-1798’, The Trafalgar Chronicle, No.20 (October 2010)
‘Securing the Sinews of Sea-power: British Intervention in the Baltic, 1780-1815’, International History Review, Vol.33, No.2, (June 2011)
‘The Advancement of Nautical Knowledge: The Hydrographical Office, the Royal Navy and the charting of the Baltic Sea, 1795-1815’, The Journal of Maritime Research, Vol.1 No.2, November 2011.
‘Supplied by the Enemy: the Royal Navy and the British Consular Service in the Baltic, 1808-1812’, Historical Research (to be published in 2012, available on ‘early view’ online in 2011)
‘The Naval Hero and British National Identity 1688-1763’ in Duncan Redford, ed. The Sea and Identity, (London: I.B. Taurus, 2012).
‘Serving the State: Sir Joseph Banks, Civilian Expertise, and British Hemp Procurement, 1800-1’ (forthcoming)
‘Singing for the Nation: Balladry, Naval Recruitment and the Language of Patriotism’ (forthcoming) I also write regular reviews in War in History, the Journal of Maritime Research, The Mariner’s Mirror, the International Journal of Maritime History, The Social History of Medicine and The Great Circle.
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