James Davey

James Davey is Curator of Naval History at the National Maritime Museum. He holds degrees from King's College London and the University of Oxford, and completed his PhD at the University of Greenwich in early 2010. He is the author of The Transformation of British Naval Strategy: Seapower and Supply in Northern Europe 1808–1812 (2012) and Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars (2015), and was a volume editor on Nelson, Navy and Nation (2013). In 2015 he was awarded the Jan Glete Prize Swedish Society for Maritime History. The book contains contributions from Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, David Scott, J D Davies, Megan Barford, Louise Devoy, Laura Humphreys, Robert J Blyth, Elaine Murphy, Richard Blakemore, Rebecca Rideal, Aaron Jaffer and Christine Riding.