Chatham Historic Dockyard. World power to resurgence
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- Author(s) Cossons, Neil (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2021
- Pages 136pp; illus
- Publisher Liverpool University Press for Historic England
- Place Published Swindon
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- Name Oxford University Libraries
- City Oxford
- County Oxfordshire
- Country England
- Postcode OX1 3BG
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Collected essays providing a history of the dockyard from its Elizabethan origins to its closure in the 1980s and its rescue and development into a heritage asset and its subsequent management. Essays include Neil Cossons, 'The Chatham endeavour'; Andrew Lambert, ''The chief arsenal of the Royal Navy and of Great Britain' - Chatham, the Royal Navy and a wider world'; Jonathan Coad ''The most complete dockyard of the Age of Sail''; Paul Hudson, 'The challenge of the future'; Paul Jardine, 'Preservation through rescue'; Richard Holdsworth, 'Policy into practice'