James Davey completed a BA at King's College London and an M.St at the University of Oxford. Between 2006 and 2009 he was Research Assistant at the University of Greenwich on the project 'Sustaining the Empire: War, the Navy, and the Contractor State', where he also completed a PhD.
He has also held a Research Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum where his job is to research the the unrivalled naval collections, and in doing so illustrate the importance of the Royal Navy to the broader sweep of British history.
AOS Naval Non-Fiction
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Navy, Nation and Nelson: The Rise of British Sea Power 1688-1815 (aka Nelson Navy & Nation: The Royal Navy & the British People, 1688-1815)