Victoria Carolan is a cultural historian specialising in maritime history and film. She has just completed her doctoral thesis, British Maritime History, National Identity and Film 1900-1960 at Queen Mary, University of London. She previously held a two year research fellowship at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht funded by the Dutch Government, looking at maritime identities through history, philosophy and photography.
Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth, the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another significant arena of war - the battle for control of the sea.In 1914 at the beginning...
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