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Tag Archives: Admiral Movie

The Top Ten

Posted by J D Davies on 09/10/2017 in Maritime history, Naval history, Uncategorized, Welsh history

I’m not tweeting very much at the moment, as I’m largely keeping my head down and working on my new Tudor project, but the other day, I had a bit of a brainwave, and tweeted a ‘top ten’ of the most popular posts ever (in terms of visitor numbers) on this blog. This seemed to […]

Admiral: Compress and Conflate

Posted by J D Davies on 05/08/2015 in Naval historical fiction, Naval history, Uncategorized

Long-term readers of this blog will know that I’ve been quite excited about the prospect of a film set against the backdrop of the Anglo-Dutch wars, ever since it first came onto my radar. It premiered in the Netherlands at the beginning of the year as Michiel de Ruyter, and has now been released on DVD […]

The Film and the Facts: About the Movie Michiel de Ruyter

Posted by J D Davies on 11/05/2015 in Naval history, Uncategorized

I’m delighted to welcome a distinguished guest blogger this week, to bring relief from the recent overdose of politics! Gijs Rommelse is one of the pre-eminent Dutch maritime and political historians of the early modern period, being the author of The Second Anglo-Dutch War: International Raison d’état, Mercantilism and Maritime Strife, the co-author with Roger Downing […]