Andrew Livsey
@andrewlivsey.bsky.social
PhD candidate at KCL: Cold War sea power theory. Sails and cycles slowly.
Both for members only, I fear, but there is much good though at The Naval Review besides my witterings.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Both for members only, I fear, but there is much good though at The Naval Review besides my witterings.
To be fair, he does also make some good points about the Hundred Year's War that I was not aware of, and which are often missed.
September 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
To be fair, he does also make some good points about the Hundred Year's War that I was not aware of, and which are often missed.
The UK depends on the sea for imports of both food and energy. Literally, without the sea we would starve in the dark. It is also by undersea cables that we get ~99% of our international data flows. His second sentence is flawed also; I'll get to that later.
September 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The UK depends on the sea for imports of both food and energy. Literally, without the sea we would starve in the dark. It is also by undersea cables that we get ~99% of our international data flows. His second sentence is flawed also; I'll get to that later.
The learned judge is wrong in his very first sentence. He writes that "until the development of air transport [England] was dependent on the sea for both trade and war." Of course the UK is still dependent on the sea for both: 80% of trade and in every major war most kit goes by sea.
September 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The learned judge is wrong in his very first sentence. He writes that "until the development of air transport [England] was dependent on the sea for both trade and war." Of course the UK is still dependent on the sea for both: 80% of trade and in every major war most kit goes by sea.
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If you want to know more about what historians actually do, I've covered that in two posts, one on what the job of a research historian actually is (acoup.blog/2025/03/07/c...) and another on how that research moves through other kinds of historians to reach the public (acoup.blog/2020/07/09/c...)
Collections: What Do Historians Do?
For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!) and talk about the craft of history: we’ve talked about “How Your History Gets…
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July 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If you want to know more about what historians actually do, I've covered that in two posts, one on what the job of a research historian actually is (acoup.blog/2025/03/07/c...) and another on how that research moves through other kinds of historians to reach the public (acoup.blog/2020/07/09/c...)
OK, I think we'll end the conversation here. I wish you well.
July 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
OK, I think we'll end the conversation here. I wish you well.
If you're so sure of your points then you'll be happy to give me your name and address.
July 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If you're so sure of your points then you'll be happy to give me your name and address.
I'd be grateful for your name and address, or are you going to hide behind anonymity? I have plenty of blind spots, some of which I'm aware of, but you're made a very serious allegation which I reject profoundly.
July 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'd be grateful for your name and address, or are you going to hide behind anonymity? I have plenty of blind spots, some of which I'm aware of, but you're made a very serious allegation which I reject profoundly.
And you get pretty close to calling me racist, which is something I despise. Granted I was sumarising slightly, but your response is not worthy of the reasonable person I am sure you are.
July 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
And you get pretty close to calling me racist, which is something I despise. Granted I was sumarising slightly, but your response is not worthy of the reasonable person I am sure you are.
So you've accused me of at least two things I didn't say: I didn't say it was solely the fault of POC, as you allege in your last sentence above, or make any reference to race, and nor did I say that Churchill was blameless, iaw your next message. I'd say that Churchill had more faults than most.
July 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
So you've accused me of at least two things I didn't say: I didn't say it was solely the fault of POC, as you allege in your last sentence above, or make any reference to race, and nor did I say that Churchill was blameless, iaw your next message. I'd say that Churchill had more faults than most.
I am sorry, but blaming Winston Churchill for the Bengal Famine is nonsense, and has been demonstrated as such repeatedly. The weather, the Japanese invading Burma, the Axis sinking merchant vessels and (Indian controlled) local government are all in the frame, but not Churchill.
July 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I am sorry, but blaming Winston Churchill for the Bengal Famine is nonsense, and has been demonstrated as such repeatedly. The weather, the Japanese invading Burma, the Axis sinking merchant vessels and (Indian controlled) local government are all in the frame, but not Churchill.
Excellent. My children know it word for word because it was the lullaby I sang to them when they were babies.
April 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Excellent. My children know it word for word because it was the lullaby I sang to them when they were babies.
I once had the pleasure of writing a non-letter...
April 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I once had the pleasure of writing a non-letter...