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	<title>Sam Willis</title>
	
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		<title>Nelson’s Caribbean Hell-Hole BBC4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hooray! My documentary on an archaeological excavation at English Harbour in Antigua will be broadcast on BBC4 at 9pm on Wednesday. You can see a clip and get more info on the programme at the BBC website.  There are a  few more bits and pieces on the blog I wrote just after the dig. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC2 Turner Documentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight sees the premier of a great little documentary on JMW Turner which looks at his artistic response to the Industrial Revolution. I had the chance to talk about Turner&#8217;s painting of George Manby&#8217;s crazy life-saving invention, a wonderful example of nineteenth-century British amateur-inventivenes as well as Turner&#8217;s commitment to maritime affairs. I wrote  a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making History BBC Radio4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The episode of Making History  in which I take Tom Holland to the British Library to look at their fabulous collection of naval dispatches is here. If you think that these letters should be put on display, or digitised to provide the General Public with access to the volume&#8217;s entire contents support the campaign here! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Radio4 ‘Making History’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I recorded a piece for Radio4&#8242;s  &#8217;Making History&#8217; program. Tom Holland and I went to the British Library to meet Dr Arnold Hunt, the curator of manuscripts to discuss the amazing collection of Naval Dispatches which my latest book is based on. It was tremendous being able to see other peoples&#8217; reactions to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxford Literary Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to announce that I will be talking on Saturday 16 March at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. The venue is Christ Church and I will be starting at six pm blunt. I will be talking about my new book, &#8216;In the Hour of Victory&#8217; and the extraordinary collection of naval dispatches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Radio 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a link to the Radio 4 Making History episode in which I discuss King George V opening the Five-Power London Naval Conference of 1930. Good excuse to spend the day at HMS Belfast.  ]]></description>
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		<title>British Library Dispatches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest book, In The Hour of Victory, is about an amazing collection of naval dispatches that only a handful of people know exist. In 1821 the Lords of the Admiralty ordered that the battle dispatches from the major British naval victories of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars should be gathered together and presented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Radio 4 Making History</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The episode of Making History in which I discuss the London Naval Conference of 1930 is broadcast today, 15 January. You will soon be able to hear it again on the BBCiPlayer.]]></description>
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		<title>In The Hour of Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time is nearly upon us! My new book, &#8216;In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson&#8217; is out in February and you can hear all about it on 1 February at the British Library or on 21 February at the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth. It&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glorious First of June wins 2012 Anderson Medal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to announce that The Glorious First of June, the third volume of my Hearts of Oak Trilogy has been awarded the Anderson Medal by the Society for Nautical Research. I very much look forward to receiving the award at an event to be held at the National Maritime Museum.]]></description>
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