{"id":13776,"date":"2022-05-16T13:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=13776"},"modified":"2022-05-16T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:02:49","slug":"all-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/2022\/05\/16\/all-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"All at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MARITIME<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

All at sea<\/h1>\n\n
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The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

by Tom Nancollas <\/p>\n\n

Particular Books, 336 pages, \u00a320<\/h5>\n\n

In the office of Lloyd\u2019s of London, the pioneers of marine insurance, hangs the Lutine bell, recovered from the wreck of the ship Lutine <\/em>in 1858. From Georgian ship deck to sea floor to modern city office, Tom Nancollas documents the life and afterlife of the bell and 10 other relics to tell the story of Britain\u2019s maritime past from the Bronze Age to the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n

These fragments of maritime Britain offer a portal into everyday nautical life via the remains of a Cornish fishing vessel and the ropery of Chatham Dockyard, but also give insight into a broader maritime culture manifested in 16th-century seafaring \u201ctrophies\u201d and imposing Victorian figureheads. Nancollas conveys a sense of yearning for a lost way of life, but simultaneously provides an honest reckoning with the forms of exploitation this world made possible. In particular, Britain\u2019s slaving history is considered through the aforementioned Lutine bell. Like the bell, the wrecks of slave ships and their artefacts could be recovered from the depths and brought into public view to facilitate a more direct confrontation with the dark elements of Britain\u2019s maritime past.<\/p>\n\n

Although the narrative arc of British ascendency and decline, especially from the 16th century onwards, will be familiar to most maritime history enthusiasts, the strength of the book \u2013 and the skill of Nancollas as an elegant and evocative writer \u2013 is how his historical account is woven into his own personal journey across the heritage sites of maritime Britain. For while visible only in fragments, Nancollas shows that Britain\u2019s maritime past is still present across coastal towns and ports from the picturesque village of Robin Hood\u2019s Bay, and the cottage built with the timbers of a shipwrecked brig, to the propeller of RMS Lusitania <\/em>that lies rusting in Liverpool\u2019s Albert Dock.<\/p>\n\n

Together these relics \u2013 objects of the past in the present \u2013 make up The Ship Asunder, <\/em>a composite of Britain\u2019s rich and complicated maritime history.<\/p>\n\n

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Philippa Hellawell <\/strong>is an early modern records specialist at the National Archives, and specialises in maritime and colonial history<\/p>\n\n

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Buy now from Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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