{"id":26535,"date":"2023-06-30T08:16:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=234691"},"modified":"2023-06-30T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:11:37","slug":"how-the-age-of-revolutions-rocked-the-royal-navy","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/how-the-age-of-revolutions-rocked-the-royal-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Age of Revolutions rocked the Royal Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> James Davey charts the story of Britain\u2019s Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s: a period rife with radicalised sailors, mutinies and harsh responses from those in power <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 30 June 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>In the late 18th-century, Britain was catapulted into war with Republican France. At the same time, it was also grappling with the tumult of the Age of Revolutions. All this upheaval was keenly felt by the huge institution that was the Royal Navy. Speaking with Elinor Evans, James Davey delves into the Royal Navy\u2019s journey across the turbulent 1790s, a period rife with radicalised sailors, mutinies and harsh responses from those in power.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-234691-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/howtheageofrevolutionsrockedtheroyalnavy-134eef7.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/howtheageofrevolutionsrockedtheroyalnavy-134eef7.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/howtheageofrevolutionsrockedtheroyalnavy-134eef7.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>James Davey is the author of <em>Tempest: The Royal Navy &amp; the Age of Revolutions<\/em> (Yale University Press, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/tempest-the-royal-navy-and-the-age-of-revolution-james-davey\/7307571?ean=9780300238273&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tempest-Royal-Navy-Age-Revolutions\/dp\/0300238274?keywords=tempest+james+davey&amp;qid=1683301653&amp;sprefix=tempest+james+%2Caps%2C84&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;linkId=2ffed357d5dc10f0417d4cec79933310&amp;language=en_GB&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/tempest\/james-davey\/9780300238273&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> James Davey charts the story of Britain\u2019s Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s: a period rife with radicalised sailors, mutinies and harsh responses from those in power <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26536,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/how-the-age-of-revolutions-rocked-the-royal-navy.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/how-the-age-of-revolutions-rocked-the-royal-navy-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/how-the-age-of-revolutions-rocked-the-royal-navy-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/how-the-age-of-revolutions-rocked-the-royal-navy.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/how-the-age-of-revolutions-rocked-the-royal-navy.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/how-the-age-of-revolutions-rocked-the-royal-navy.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/how-the-age-of-revolutions-rocked-the-royal-navy.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"James Davey charts the story of Britain\u2019s Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s: a period rife with radicalised sailors, mutinies and harsh responses from those in power","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/26535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}