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[[File:Confing.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The editor presenting a paper based on [[A Direct Train of Cordite]] at the British Commission for Maritime History's New Researchers' Conference, 2013.]]  
My name is '''Simon Harley''' and I am a thirty-eight year old researcher of the Royal Navy in the [[Dreadnought Era]].
'''Simon Harley''' is a twenty-six year old law student and researcher of the Royal Navy in the [[Dreadnought Era]].


Simon currently lives on the North West coast of England.  He is currently working on a book-length study of the 200 British admirals of the Great War, a topic which encompasses everything from fire-control to sail training.  His aim is to make this website an indispensable tool for any student of the Royal Navy in the First World War and the years leading up to it.
I currently live on the North-West coast of England.  For the past 16 years I've been accumulating material on the [[Royal Navy Flag Officers of the Great War]], which will eventually form the basis of a multi-volume history of the Royal Navy, from Lord Fisher's going to sea up to the Treaty of Versailles.  By providing a background to these Flag Officers' services from 1854 to 1914, their actions in the Great War will be put into their proper context.


Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2012.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, and the consequent closure of archives, I started a new project on cordite handling at the Battle of Jutland which has (as of March 2024) matured into a 600 page work on the subject.
 
If you have any questions or material relating to the subjects of this website, please [http://dreadnoughtproject.org/contact.php get in touch] or email me at simon AT-SIGN dreadnoughtproject.org.  I would be especially happy to hear from descendants of naval officers who served in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
 
My personal website and blog can be found at [http://www.simonharley.com http://www.simonharley.com].
 
Elected an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2024.
 
One of the first recipients of the [https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/news-and-events/the-first-colin-bell-award-winners-announced/ Colin Bell Award from Churchill College, Cambridge.]
 
Invited to present a paper at the 2017 McMullen Naval History Symposium at the United States Naval Academy.
 
Speaker at the 2013 New Researchers in Maritime History Conference hosted by the British Commission for Maritime History.
 
Author of:
 
*[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00253359.2016.1167397 "'It's a Case of All or None': 'Jacky' Fisher's Advice to Winston Churchill, 1911"]. ''The Mariner's Mirror''. '''102''' (2): 174–190. doi:10.1080/00253359.2016.1167397.
 
*[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00253359.2016.1202488 "'A Distinct Point in Modern Naval Tactics'"]. ''The Mariner's Mirror''. '''102''' (3): 325–330. doi:10.1080/00253359.2016.1202488.
 
*[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00253359.2016.1240978 "Vice-Admiral Bethell's Third Fleet Battle Orders, about 1914"]. ''The Mariner's Mirror''. '''102''' (4): 442–443. doi:10.1080/00253359.2016.1240978.
 
*[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00253359.2017.1304709 "The Promotion of David Beatty to Rear-Admiral"]. ''The Mariner's Mirror''. '''103''' (2): 213–216. doi:10.1080/00253359.2017.1304709.
 
*[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00253359.2017.1348040 "War Course Attendance at Greenwich from 1900 to 1904"]. ''The Mariner's Mirror''. '''103''' (4): 471–474. doi:10.1080/00253359.2017.1348040.


===Links===
===Links===
*[[User:Simon Harley/Library|Library]] — A list of my books.  I'm always willing to share information or the books themselves on request.
''Not updated in a long, long time!''
 
*[[User:Simon Harley/Library|Library]] — A list of ''some'' of my books.  I'm always willing to share information or the books themselves on request.
 
*[[User:Simon Harley/Archives|Archives]] — A list of ''some'' of the archival (i.e. primary) sources I have and need.  If you can help acquire them, or are interested in the contents of some of them, please get in touch.


*[[User:Simon Harley/Archives|Archives]] — A list of archival (i.e. primary) sources I have and need.  If you can help acquire them, or are interested in the contents of some of them, please get in touch.  
*[[User:Simon Harley/Acknowledgements|Acknowledgements]] — Research like this requires a lot of time, luck, effort, and ''help''.


===External Links===
===External Links===
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Simon_Harley My Wikipedia user page.]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Simon_Harley My Wikipedia user page.]
*[https://twitter.com/simonharley My 𝕏/Twitter page.]


===Forthcoming Books of Interest to Naval Historians===
==Works in Progress==
Doe, Helen; Harding, Richard. ed. (2012).  ''Naval Leadership and Management, 1650-1950''.  Woodbridge: The Boydell Press.  ISBN 9781843836957.
Far too many to list.
 
The chapters of interest in this edited volume, available on 19 April, 2012, will be "New Kinds of Discipline: The Royal Navy in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century" and "Towards a Hierarchy of Management: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy, 1860-1918."  The editor assumes that Dr. Mary Jones will be responsible for one of these.
 
Grimes, Shawn (2012).  ''Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918''.  Woodbridge: The Boydell Press.  ISBN 9781843836988.


This book, available on 16 February, 2012, will presumably be the published version of Dr. Grimes's doctoral thesis ''War Planning and Strategic Development in the Royal Navy, 1887-1918''.  While this will be an extremely timely view of the work of the [[Naval Intelligence Department (Royal Navy)|Naval Intelligence Department]] at the turn of the Twentieth Century, based on what he has seen of the thesis the editor believes that Dr. Grimes could have done a lot more research with regards to the actual operation of the department, rather than focussing on individuals such as [[George Alexander Ballard|George A. Ballard]] and [[Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar|Kenneth G. B. Dewar]].
''Review copies of new publications are always welcome.''

Latest revision as of 07:29, 1 September 2024

The editor presenting a paper based on A Direct Train of Cordite at the British Commission for Maritime History's New Researchers' Conference, 2013.

My name is Simon Harley and I am a thirty-eight year old researcher of the Royal Navy in the Dreadnought Era.

I currently live on the North-West coast of England. For the past 16 years I've been accumulating material on the Royal Navy Flag Officers of the Great War, which will eventually form the basis of a multi-volume history of the Royal Navy, from Lord Fisher's going to sea up to the Treaty of Versailles. By providing a background to these Flag Officers' services from 1854 to 1914, their actions in the Great War will be put into their proper context.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, and the consequent closure of archives, I started a new project on cordite handling at the Battle of Jutland which has (as of March 2024) matured into a 600 page work on the subject.

If you have any questions or material relating to the subjects of this website, please get in touch or email me at simon AT-SIGN dreadnoughtproject.org. I would be especially happy to hear from descendants of naval officers who served in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

My personal website and blog can be found at http://www.simonharley.com.

Elected an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2024.

One of the first recipients of the Colin Bell Award from Churchill College, Cambridge.

Invited to present a paper at the 2017 McMullen Naval History Symposium at the United States Naval Academy.

Speaker at the 2013 New Researchers in Maritime History Conference hosted by the British Commission for Maritime History.

Author of:

Links

Not updated in a long, long time!

  • Library — A list of some of my books. I'm always willing to share information or the books themselves on request.
  • Archives — A list of some of the archival (i.e. primary) sources I have and need. If you can help acquire them, or are interested in the contents of some of them, please get in touch.
  • Acknowledgements — Research like this requires a lot of time, luck, effort, and help.

External Links

Works in Progress

Far too many to list.

Review copies of new publications are always welcome.

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