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Rum, sodomy, prayers, and the lash revisited : Winston Churchill and social reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915 /

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"'Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.' This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones that were subject...

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Main Author: Seligmann, Matthew S., 1967- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965.
Great Britain. > Royal Navy > History > 20th century.
Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965
Great Britain. > Royal Navy
Sailors > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Social problems > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Naval art and science > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > History, Naval > 20th century.
Marins > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Problèmes sociaux > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire navale > 20e siècle.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Marine & Naval.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Naval art and science
Sailors > Social conditions
Social problems
Great Britain
1900-1999
Electronic books.
History
Naval history
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