scholarly journals Naval Leadership in the Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700–1850

2017 ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Richard Harding ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Naval Leadership

Sodomy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Seligmann
Keyword(s):  
Medical Service ◽  
First World War ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
World War ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Naval Leadership ◽  
First World

This chapter explores the secret policy introduced by the British Admiralty in 1911 to stamp out homoerotic practices in the Royal Navy. Homosexual acts were illegal in pre-First World War Britain and harsh sentences would be awarded to any sailor convicted (by court martial) of so-called ‘unnatural crime’. However, in the decade prior to 1911 prosecutions were infrequent and convictions rarer still. This all changed in 1911. Following a spate of indecency and sodomy cases, a concerted effort was made by the naval leadership to remedy this. Archaic offences against naval law were revived in order to facilitate prosecutions and the naval medical service was charged with providing evidence of homosexual acts. The result was a significant increase in the prosecution and conviction of sailors for homosexual acts, a process that was only curtailed as a result of the outbreak of war in 1914.

The German Threat

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Morgan-Owen
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Naval Leadership

The Admiralty had been confident in the Navy’s ability to prevent a French invasion prior to 1903. Thereafter, however, it quickly became apparent that Germany posed a fundamentally different challenge from the Franco-Russian threat Britain had faced in the 1890s and early 1900s. For a series of geographical, infrastructural, and military reasons, a German invasion of the British Isles came to be viewed with a great deal more apprehension at the Admiralty than had ever been generated by the years of tension with France. This chapter examines how and why Britain’s naval leadership came to fear a German attempt to land in the United Kingdom. Building on the appreciation of contemporary naval thought developed in Chapter 1, it recounts how the Admiralty identified a challenge that came to define its strategic agenda between 1907 and 1914.

The Colonial Empire of the Portuguese to the Death of Albuquerque

1894 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 109-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Raymond Beazley
Keyword(s):  
Western World ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
Naval Leadership ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
The Way

The first of modern colonial empires, the dominion of the Portuguese on the coasts and seas of Africa and India is in one sense more interesting than any of its successors. For it is, of course, essentially and peculiarly connected with the beginnings of that expansion of Europe and Christendom which, above all else, marks off the modern from the mediæval world. In other words, the growth of Portugal through discovery into a position of commercial and naval leadership is of general value to the whole of the Western world, in a way that is not shared by the similar and later growth of Spain, Holland, France or England. The development of these states belongs mainly to their own history. Immensely as they influenced one another, they none of them, to the same extent as Portugal, opened the way by which alone Europe could expand at all. None of them can rival her in the credit of breaking down the middle wall of superstitious terror which parted the unknown worlds along and beyond the ocean from the Christendom of Dante and Chaucer. None of them, in the same special originative way, can claim the glory that Camoens claims for his nation, the glory ofOpening up those wastes of tide,No generation openèd before.

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