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Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford (11 January 1922 – 8 May 1986) was a noted 20th-century British
A keen yachtsman himself, Bradford spent almost 30 years sailing the Mediterranean, and many of his books are set there. His book, ''The Journeying Moon'' describes some of these voyages. It ends with the sale of his Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, ''Mischief'', to HW Bill Tilman, who made a number of significant voyages in it to high latitudes.
A sometime
broadcaster and magazine editor, Bradford was also a prolific author and popular historian, many of his books remaining in print to this day. He regularly wrote letters to the British press, in particular ''historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
specializing in the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...
world and naval topics.Obituary in ''The Daily Telegraph
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It was f ...
'', Friday, May 9, 1986, p. 16 He was also an authority on antique jewellery and was the founder editor of the ''Antique Dealers and Collector's Guide''.
Life
Bradford was the son of Jocelyn Ernle Sydney Patton Bradford , and his wife, Ada Louise Dusgate. He was born in Cole Green,Norfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
and educated in England at Uppingham School
Uppingham School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils 13-18) in Uppingham, Rutland, England, founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester, who also established Oakham School. The headma ...
. He served in the Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
during World War II, initially as an Ordinary Seaman but rising to the rank of first lieutenant
A lieutenant ( , ; abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations.
The meaning of lieutenant differs in different militaries (see comparative military ranks), but it is often ...
of a Hunt Class Destroyer.
A keen yachtsman himself, Bradford spent almost 30 years sailing the Mediterranean, and many of his books are set there. His book, ''The Journeying Moon'' describes some of these voyages. It ends with the sale of his Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, ''Mischief'', to HW Bill Tilman, who made a number of significant voyages in it to high latitudes.
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...The Times
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'' and '' Country Life'', on matters of history and sailing.
Bradford lived in Kalkara
Kalkara ( mt, Il-Kalkara) is a village in the South Eastern Region of Malta, with a population of 3,014 as of March 2014. The name is derived from the Latin word for lime (Calce), and it is believed that there was a lime kiln present there sin ...
, on Malta
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for a number of years, this also being where he died, and where a commemorative marble plaque exists to his memory and a street next to his old home is named after him.
List of works
*''ContemporaryJewellery
Jewellery ( UK) or jewelry (U.S.) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a wester ...
and Silver Design'' (Heywood & Co., 1950).
*''Four Centuries of European Jewellery'' (Country Life, 1953).
*''The Journeying Moon'' (Jarrolds, 1958); reprinted as: ''The Journeying Moon: Sailing
Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cou ...
into History''.
*''English Victorian Jewellery'' (Country Life, 1959).
*'' The Mighty Hood: The Life and Death of the Royal Navy's Proudest Ship'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1959).
*''The Wind Off the Island'' (Hutchinson, 1960); reprinted as: ''The Wind off the Island: A Portrait of Sicily
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and Life on the Mediterranean Sea''.
*US title: ''A Wind from the North: The Life of Henry the Navigator'' (Harcourt Brace, 1960); UK title: ''Southward the Caravels
The caravel (Portuguese: , ) is a small maneuverable sailing ship used in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean. The lateen sails gave it speed and the capacity for sailing win ...
: The Story of Henry the Navigator'' (Hutchinson, 1961).
*''The Great Siege: Malta 1565'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1961); US title: ''The Great Siege'' (Harcourt Brace, 1961).
*''The Touchstone'' (Cassell, 1962).
*'' Ulysses Found'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1963).
*''The Companion Guide to the Greek Isles
Greece has many islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 and 227.
The largest Greek island by a ...
'' (Collins, 1963), reprinted many times.
*''Three Centuries of Sailing'' (Country Life, 1964).
*''The America's Cup'' (Country Life, 1964).
*''Drake. A Biography'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1965); US edition: ''The Wind Commands Me: A Life of Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake ( – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580 ( ...
'' (Harcourt, 1965); subsequently reprinted as ''Drake: England's Greatest Seafarer''.
*(Editor) ''The Siege of Malta 1565: Translated from the Spanish Edition of 1568'' by Francisco Balbi di Correggio
Francisco Balbi di Correggio (16 March 1505 – 12 December 1589), born in Correggio in the province of Province of Reggio Emilia, Italy, was an arquebusier who served with the Spanish contingent during the Great Siege of Malta. Little is known ab ...
(Folio Society, 1965); reprinted by the Boydell Press, 2011.
*''Wall of England: The Channel's 2000 Years of History'' (Country Life, 1966); USA: ''Wall of Empire: The English Channel'' (Barnes, 1966).
*''The Great Betrayal: Constantinople
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1204'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1967); USA: ''The Sundered Cross: The Story of the Fourth Crusade'' (Prentice Hall, 1967).
*''The Sultan's Admiral: The Life of Barbarossa
Barbarossa, a name meaning "red beard" in Italian, primarily refers to:
* Frederick Barbarossa (1122–1190), Holy Roman Emperor
* Hayreddin Barbarossa (c. 1478–1546), Ottoman admiral
* Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Un ...
'' (USA: Harcourt Brace, 1968; UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969).
*''Teach Yourself Antique Furniture'' (English Universities Press, 1970).
*''Mediterranean: Portrait of a Sea'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1971).
*''Gibraltar
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: The History of a Fortress'' (Hart-Davis, 1971).
*'' Cleopatra'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1971).
*''The Shield and the Sword: The Knights of Malta'' (Harper Collins, 1972); US edition: ''The Shield and the Sword: The Knights of St. John, Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta'' (Dutton, 1973).
*''Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
* lij, Cristoffa C(or)ombo
* es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón
* pt, Cristóvão Colombo
* ca, Cristòfor (or )
* la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was a ...
'' (Michael Joseph, 1973).
*''The Sword and the Scimitar: The Saga of the Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were ...
'' (Victor Gollancz, 1974).
*''Paul the Traveller: Saint Paul
Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...
and his World'' (Allen Lane, 1974).
*''Nelson
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers
* ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...
: The Essential Hero'' (Macmillan, 1977).
*''The Year of Thermopylae
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'' (Macmillan, 1980); also published as: ''Thermopylae: The Battle for the West''.
*'' Hannibal'' (Macmillan, 1981); republished by The Folio Society (1996), with an introduction by Kenneth McLeish
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.
*''The Story of the Mary Rose
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'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1982).
*''Julius Caesar
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: The Pursuit of Power'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1984).
*''Siege
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: Malta 1940-1943'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1985).
*''The Great Ship'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1986); reprinted as: ''The Great Ship: How Battleships Changed the History of War''.
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