Dr Sam Willis
@DrSamWillis
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Historian & Broadcaster | BBC + Nat Geo | #UnexpectedPodcast @UnexpectedPod | Mariner’s Mirror podcast @nauticalhistory | Insta @DrSamWillis
UK
Joined September 2010
One of the most innovative of Queen Victoria's battleships: A ship model of HMS Vengeance (1899) from the amazing ship model collection at Barrow @dockmuseum filmed with the very latest camera tech @LRFHEC @BAESystemsplc #Twitterstorians #History
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RT @NauticalHistory: Maritime Cultural Heritage Award: Applications! .Please share!.
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Ships have many roles. They can be places of longing or delivery vehicles, warmongers or escape helpers, environmental disruptors or repositories of knowledge. One thing is certain: without ships,...
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RT @NauticalHistory: Latest Podcast! Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners.@DrSamWillis finds out about the amazing John Sayers collection @bod….
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This episode explores one of the world’s greatest historical collections relating to the golden age of ocean liner travel. To find out more Dr Sam Willis spoke with John Sayers, a man who has...
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RT @NauticalHistory: Latest Podcast! The Amazing History of Icebreakers! with @DrSamWillis and @LRFHEC
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RT @NauticalHistory: Podcast!. 'Eyewitness: Captain Avery and the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates'. A new strand bringi….
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We're SO CLOSE to 500,000 downloads with the brilliant Mariner's Mirror Podcast 🔥🎧⚓️🔥 from @NauticalHistory and @LRFHEC ; if you haven't listened yet here's the latest 4 eps to whet/wet the maritime appetite - and they're all BRILLIANT.
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RT @NauticalHistory: Latest podcast with @DrSamWillis and the brilliant naval historian Angus Konstam on one of the most dramatic convoy st….
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Latest Podcast! 🎧⚓️ Smugglers, Pirates and Terrorists: Maritime Crime And Security. Understand the recent Houthi attacks in context with @DrSamWillis and @BeugerC
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RT @NauticalHistory: Latest podcast! 🎧⚓️📢 . The Dreadnought Hoax is one of the most fantastical events of all naval and maritime history. I….
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RT @LRFHEC: This is HMS Vanguard, a battleship launched in 1944. The only ship of her class and the largest and the most sophisticated batt….
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RT @LRFHEC: The Cold War Rail Ferry 📽️ At the height of the Cold War, these were the largest ships built in the GDR and the largest railway….
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An absolute privilege to be allowed to walk among the terracotta warriors and explore the mausoleum of the First Emperor. My latest show Ancient China from Above now on @NatGeo @DisneyPlus 🔥☠️😱 Get watching.
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If you like history. And LASERS. Then you’ll like my new show. 🔥.
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RT @NauticalHistory: We brought Nelson back to life from a plaster cast made of his face when he was alive. Latest episode teaches you all….
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I've spent the last few weeks dramatising witness testimonies at the Titanic enquiry for the Mariner's Mirror Pod 🎧⚓️ @NauticalHistory. Here's the brilliant historian and pro scouser @FXMC1957 playing the part of Liverpudlian stoker Frederick Barrett.
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Just astonishing - A truly wonderful film of an extraordinary work of art from the middle ages.
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A model of an unknown galleon from northern Europe -dated from the 1590s. Built to be displayed in a church, suspended from the roof so that it appears to float in the air above the congregation! 🚢⚓. Watch the full video 👉👉
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