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Britannia Naval Research Association
- Sept-April monthly meetings call the Secretary on 07790928825 for details,and in May/June at St Annes' College Oxford and other locations

January 2021 UPDATE

News

Our Jutland - Fresh Thoughts book is ready for orders!

BNRA & Corona Virus

UPDATE - FOR 2021

Continuing the Voyage!

We are now online!

We have arranged a series of meetings online for members with a new schedule from January 2021. Please contact the Secretary if you would like to attend.

Although the seas have become a little rougher and unpredictable please help us and each other to continue our shared voyage from Drake to Dreadnought and Beyond.

Oxford Naval Symposium Postponed...Summer Visit Planned!

our new schedule of meetings for 2021 will inlcude an external visit in the summer months. This is a replacement for our annual Oxford Naval Symposium until conditions return to normal.

We are still producing our BNRA Journal as usaual

Journal Articles, Models, Paintings and Photographs: The Passion Continues!

There is a great opportunity in this period of enforced home working to work on your research and prepare articles and snippets for the BNRA Journal. Not forgetting the chance to build that model, or paint and photograph aspects of naval interest ready for the time we can re-introduce our BNRA model, painting and photograph exhibitions.

Please Keep in Contact - check we have your correct email address

So do please send in articles, snippets, photographs etc for the next issue of the Journal that we plan to produce for May. Also please keep in contact with us and each other and share your research, preservation and promotion of your naval interests.

Thank you for your continued membership. Please keep safe and well and we look forward to seeing you again soon in calmer seas.

The Chairman and Committee of the BNRA

ONS 20 POSTPONED

ONS20 The BNRA Oxford Naval Symposium

Due to the global health conditions deteriorating as a result of the Covid 19 virus and the nature of the increased risk to many of our members, the committee has decided to postpone our Oxford Naval Symposium until conditions return to normal. We are however encouraging all presenters to send in their presentations on the subject of ‘Go tell it to the Marines’. These will be collected ready for the postponed date, or released in a publication should much longer periods of confinement be needed.

Call the Secretary on 07790928825 for up to date details of all our events

News

The BNRA Newsletter

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Please contact the BNRA Secretary for further details

BNRA ZOOM MEETING CALENDER 2021

Please contact the secretary John Wain for invitations

BNRA Zoom Meetings 10am - 12 noon:

Sunday 17 January 2021 AGM. Then: Susan Amos: 'The Journal of Joseph William Crabb RN 1800-1810’, Bob Horner: 'Cruiser Aurora History Part Two 1918-06’-

Sunday 21 February 2021 Annual model , art and photography exhibition

To include: 'The Hornblower Models’, 'Shell fuses,18th&19thc developments'

'Computer modelling of the Naval Bofors Gun’, 'King George V, a model in focus’, Dartmouth Museum: 'A New Mayflower Model : a ship's structure revealed’ and others…

Sunday 21 March 2021 Cmdr. David Lingard, Dartmouth Museum : 'Exercise Tiger; the New Information’. Dr. Brendan O'Farrell : The Baltic Campaign during the War with Russia, including the Invasion of Finland, (Crimean Period)

Sunday 18 April 2021 Rob Brassington: ' WW1 Allied Torpedoes. Computer graphics revealing developmental stages in this evolving technology that changed the nature of sea warfare’. Capt. Peter Hore; 18th/19thc period sailing navy topic to be confirmed

BNRA Summer Visit; Susan Amos has suggested a summer outing on Saturday 17 July to Shugborough Hall, dependent on the status of Covid and any restrictions.

Shugborough was Admiral Anson’s home and is now a National Trust Property

BNRA Autumn Series of meetings. Content tbc

Sunday 19 September 2021

Sunday 17 October 2021

Sunday 21 November 2021

Sunday 12 December 2021 Sea Poetry & Prose…and Mince Pies (we hope!)

These meetings will be either Zoom or if the Covid crisis is resolved we intend to

return to our conventional venue at the Bear

These meetings will be either Zoom or if the Covid crisis is resolved we intend to return to our conventional venue at the Bear Hotel Woodstock

Please contact John Wain to arrange attendance 07790928825..

BNRA - The First World War at Sea: See our selection of books now available

Books

Don’t forget the monthly BNRA meetings September to May each year!

The BNRA have contributed to and supported a successful bid to install a blue plaque for Alan Villiers, subject of the annual Alan Villiers memorial lectures

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